A manual of hygiene / by Sir William H. Hamer and C.W. Hutt.

  • Hamer, William Heaton, 1862-1936.
Date:
1925
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Credit: A manual of hygiene / by Sir William H. Hamer and C.W. Hutt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (as defined on p. 3 of the Memo.) who has obtained the certificate of the Central Midwives Board and has completed an approved course of training in public health work lasting for at least six months or she must have undergone a course of training of two years’ duration already recognized under the Board of Education (Health Visitors’ Training) Regulations, 1919 (those mentioned below), together with six months’ training in a general, fever or children’s hospital providing such training, and have obtained the certificate of the Central Midwives Board. The Ministry of Health make grants to recognized educational bodies organizing courses of training for health visitors. Existing whole-time health visitors, or other women who have worked satisfactorily as health visitor and school nurse or tuberculosis nurse for five years, may enter for the examination without attending any special course of instruction. Attendance at refresher courses of 2-4 weeks by already appointed health visitors, the Minister is anxious should be encouraged; local authorities are enabled to pay the reasonable expenses of their health visitors for this purpose. District nurses employed as health visitors in rural parishes not being whole-time health visitors are not required to obtain the qualifica¬ tion but should be enabled to attend these courses. This circular mentioned above postulates the appointment of health visitors. The power of Sanitary Authorities to appoint Health Visitors was first granted in London under the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908. Any Sanitary Authority (i.e., City of London and Metropolitan Boroughs) may on or at any time after the first day of January, 1909, appoint suitable women (to be known as Health Visitors) for the purpose of giving to persons advice as to the proper nurture, care and management of young children and the promotion of cleanliness, and discharging such duties (if any) as may be assigned to them in accordance with the provisions of this section. The Local Government Board may make regulations prescribing the quali¬ fications, mode of appointment, duties, salary and tenure of office of Health Visitors appointed under this section, and no appointment of a Health Visitor shall be made otherwise than in accordance with such regulations. 65 The regulations have recently been modified by Memo. —&TcTW °* July, 1922, which states that the qualifications which will be required on and after January 1st, 1923, are :— 5. (i) The certificate prescribed by the Regulations of the Board of Education, (ii) Three years’ training in a General Hospital, or full training in a Chil¬ dren’s Hospital, together with at least one of the following qualifica¬ tions :— (a) the certificate of the Central Midwives Board, (b) the certificate of a Sanitary Inspector, (c) the certificate for Health Visitors of one of the bodies approved by the Local Government Board under the Health Visitors (London) Order, 1909, i.e., the Royal Sanitary Institute, the Royal Institute of Public Health, the National Health Society, or the Battersea Polytechnic.