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conveyance of expectant mothers to and from ante-natal clinics
was concerned, there appeared to the Council to be no existing
need for the provision of such service.
The Borough Council was informed in October, 1930, that the
London County Council had adopted the following resolutions :—
(а) That in the opinion of the Council no adequate grounds exist for an extension
of the ambulance facilities at present provided by the Council free of charge,
for the conveyance of maternity cases to hospitals, etc.
(b) That in the opinion of the Council any arrangements for the conveyance
at the public cost of non-urgent maternity cases to hospitals, etc., during the day
time (between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.) is the responsibility of the several Metropolitan
Borough Councils as the authorities under the Maternity and Child Welfare Act,
1918, but that the Council is prepared, in any case in which a Metropolitan Borough
Council desires the Council to place its ambulance service at the disposal of such
non-urgent maternity cases between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m., to enter into an agreement
to provide such ambulance service on condition (i) that the Borough Council
concerned will undertake to pay an agreed sum, to be approved by the Central
Public Health Committee, for the use of the ambulance service, and (ii) that the
service is limited to cases approved by the Borough Medical Officer of Health.
The County Council also requested the Council to bring to the
notice of medical practitioners in the Borough the ambulance
services which they provided.
The Council's Medical Officer of Health was instructed to
comply with this request.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1928.
Removal of Infirm Person to Poor Law or other Institution.
Under the provisions of Section 28 of the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1928, a Medical Officer of Health
may make an application to a petty sessional court if he be
authorised by resolution of the Sanitary Authority and if he
certifies in writing that any person is aged or infirm or is residing
under insanitary conditions, and that such person is unable to
attend to himself or herself or to receive from persons with whom he
or she resides proper care and attention, and that thorough enquiry
and consideration have shown the necessity, in the interest of
the health of such person and for preventing injury to the health
of, or serious nuisance to, other persons, that he or she should be
removed from the premises in which he or she is residing. The
petty sessional court, upon oral proof of the allegation in such
certificate, and subject to examination of such person by a registered
medical practitioner, to be nominated by the Court, may, if they
think fit, make an order for the removal of such person to a suitable
hospital, infirmary, poor law or other institution or other suitable
place within the district or within a suitable distance therefrom,
and for the detention and maintenance of such person therein for
a period not exceeding three months, as may be determined by
such order.