[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City.
- Manchester (England). City Council. n 88637066.
- Date:
- 1948
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(j) Specifying the method and frequency of payments by the City Council to the Bo* of Governors and for audit of accounts by officers of the City Council and, if necessa ; by the District Auditor. (k) Use of the emergency maternity unit provided by the Board of Governors, for 1 purposes of the service generally and for payments by the City Council for the use i the unit. (l) Joint arrangements for the training of domiciliary midwives and payments to be m* therefor by the City Council to the Board of Governors towards the cost of administer! « a training scheme for midwives. (m) Representation by the Board of Governors by co-option on the appropriate si committee of the City Council to whom is delegated the administration of the serv and specifying the number of such representatives. (b) Manchester and Salford District Nursing Institution. (2) The City Council will enter into an agreement with the Institution to operate part of 1 service on behalf of the City Council, and such agreement will contain provision for the follow] matters genera Ity :—- (a) For the Institution to operate a portion of the service on behalf of the City Council. (b) Limitation of the period during which the Inst itut ion will undertake to provide a portr of the service on behalf of the City Council. (c) For the renewal of the agreement from time to time on the same terms or on such revie terms as may be agreed with the approval of the Minister of Health. (d) Employment of five midwives by the Institution for the purposes of the service. (e) Limiting the power of the Institution to incur extraordinary or special expenditure commitments in connection with the service without the prior approval of the lo< health authority. (/) Administration of the service by the Health Committee through the Medical Officer Health and his assistants. (g) Specifying the districts in which the service to be provided shall operate. (h) Qualifications, remuneration, and conditions of service of midwives employed in t service. ( i ) Statistical, financial, and other information as to the operation of the service to supplied at such frequency and in such form as may be required by authorised office | of the local health authority. ( j) Payment by the City Council to the Institution of the cost of operating a portion the service on behalf of the City Council. (k) Specifying the method and frequency of payments by the City Council to the Instil [i tion and for audit of accounts by officers of the City Council and, if necessary, by tv District Auditor. 4. Joint arrangements with other local health authorities. No such joint arrangements are at present proposed. Arrangements for the supervision of midwives. 1. The City Council will continue their existing arrangements for the supervision of midwiv [' by the employment of three non-medical supervisors of midwives, one of whom is the senii 2. The City is divided for convenience into two areas for the purpose of supervision of t, work of midwives and this arrangement will continue and will include supervision of all midwiv ri in the service, whether employed by the City Council, the Board of Governors of St. Mary Hospitals, or the Institution, together with midwives engaged in independent practice. 3. The non-medical supervisors of mid wives will continue to be responsible to the Medic Officer of Health through an Assistant Medical Officer and will have available the advice of th officer. Transport. 1. Transport for all midwives engaged in the service will be available by the following means : (а) Public transport ; (б) Cycles and motor cars provided by the midwives ; (c) Transport provided from departmental sources by the City Council. 2. Where midwives use public transport or their own cycles or motor cars the City Couni will pay the mid wives the cost of using such means in accordance with scales approved by tl City Council,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29785698_0280.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
