[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Middlesex County Council.

  • Middlesex (England). County Council. n 99020326.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Middlesex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    organisation and arrangements for the institutional and domiciliary care of the sick poor, and there can be no doubt that this transference should lead to a unification of health services which, until recently, appeared almost impossible of achievement. The Act goes much farther than merely to transfer functions from one body to another in that it encourages County Councils, so far as possible, to remove from the Poor Law the services for the relief of mental and physical defect and disease and for the care of mothers, infants and children, and to administer these under powers conferred by other Acts. The County Council and its officers devoted a very large amount of time to the consideration of the Act, and in accordance with Section 5 prepared a scheme of the administrative arrangements proposed to be made for discharging the functions transferred under Part I of the Act. It was apparent on careful investigation that the organisation and the institutions, which had been provided by the existing Boards of Guardians and which would be transferred to the County Council, were not sufficiently adequate to enable the County Council immediately to undertake to provide under other Acts all the assistance which the Local Government Act, 1929, empowered them to do. The Council, however, decided to embody as a part of their scheme a declaration of their intention to do so as soon as possible. The terms of this declaration are as follows :— Declaration as to the Provision of Certain Assistance Otherwise than by Way of Poor Relief. 2.—(1) Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 of the Act, the Council has had regard to the desira¬ bility 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. (2) It is the intention of the Council, as soon as practicable (a) to secure that all such assistance shall be provided otherwise than by way of Poor- Relief ; (6) to take the necessary steps to ensure that any assistance which can be provided either by way of (C 3662)t a 2
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