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by a person who is an authorised seller of poisons or whose
name is entered in a list, kept under this Part of the Act by a
local authority, of persons who are to be entitled to sell poisons
in Part II. (in the Act referred to as a "local authority's list")
Every local authority is required to keep for the purposes of
this Act a list of the persons who, not being persons entitled to sell
poisons included in Part I. of the Poisons List, are entitled to sell
poisons included in Part II. of the Poisons List, and to enter in the
list the name of any person who having premises in the area of the
authority makes an application to have his name entered in the
list as a person entitled to sell such poisons on those premises.
The Secretary of State may make rules and regulations inter
alia, for regulating or restricting the sale or supply of poisons by
persons whose names are entered in the local authority's list.
The local authority is required to take all reasonable steps to
secure compliance with the provisions of Part II. of the Act, and,
for that purpose, to appoint inspectors who shall have powers of
entry and to make examinations and to take samples, etc.
The Act is to come into operation on the appointed day which
shall be prescribed by Order in Council. The appointed day has not
yet been fixed, and different days may be appointed for different
purposes and provisions of the Act.
The powers and duties of the Borough Council under Part II.
of the Act have been delegated to the Public Health Committee.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
The work carried out during 1933 under the Council's maternity
and child welfare scheme can conveniently be reported upon under
the following descriptive titles
(a) Health visiting.
(b) Infant welfare centres, ante-natal, artificial sunlight
and dental clinics.
(c) Provision of maternity hospital accommodation, midwives
and midwifery assistance, arrangements for
investigation of maternal deaths and cases of puerperal
fever and puerperal pyrexia, consultants for
difficult maternity cases, homes for mothers and
children, home helps and nursing assistance.
(d) Provision of milk and other foods to necessitous
mothers and children.
(e) Infant Life protection.