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centrated thought, and entailing much detailed work and which,
though worthy of mention, need not he enlarged upon in a memorandum
only meant to outline matters which will in due course
need the careful deliberation of the Council.
Obviously, however, owing to the extent of the schemes suggested,
a very considerable time must elapse before the fruition of
the proposals, if adopted, can be attained in its entirety.
F. GARLAND COLLINS.
March, 1930.
*Section 5 of Local Government Act, 1929.
5.—(1) "A council in preparing an administrative scheme
shall have regard to the desirability of securing that, as soon as
circumstances permit, all assistance which can lawfully be provided
otherwise than by way of poor relief shall be so provided,
and accordingly anv such scheme may declare that any assistance
which could, after the appointed day, be provided either by way
of poor relief or by virtue of any of the following Acts as amended
by any subsequent enactment including this Act (that is to say) —
(a) The Public Health Act, 1875;
(b) The Local Government Act, 1888;
(c) The Mental Deficiency Act, 1913;
(d) The Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918;
(e) The Blind Persons Act, 1920;
(f) The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Act, 1921;
(g) The Education Act, 1921;
shall be provided exclusively by virtue of the appropriate Act and
not by way of poor relief, but nothing in this sub-section, or in
any scheme, shall diminish or otherwise affect the duty of a council
under section thirty-four of the Poor Law Act, 1927, to provide
relief for the poor.
"For the purposes of this sub-section, the expression 'assistance'
includes maintenance and treatment at hospitals and other
places, the education of children, and any other services which
could, after the appointed day, be provided either by way of poor
relief or by virtue of any of the above-mentioned Acts."
* Section 13 of Local Government Act, 1929.
"The council of every county and county borough shall, when
making provision for hospital accommodation in discharge of the
functions transferred to them under this Part of this Act, consult
such committee or other body as they consider to represent both
the governing bodies and the medical and surgical staffs of the
voluntary hospitals providing services in or for the benefit of the
county or county borough as to the accommodation to be provided
and as to the purposes for which it is to be used."
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