for the benefit of the injured person or his family or otherwise, as the Secretary of State determines.

Limits of Act.

H.-Isolation Hospitals Act, 1893.

This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland, or to the administrative county of London, or to any county borough, or without the consent of the council of the borough to any borough containing, according to the last census, a population of ten thousand persons or upwards, or to any borough containing a less population without the like consent, unless the L. G. B. by order direct that the Act shall apply to such borough.

Procedure.

Application shall be made by petition stating the district for which isolation hospital is required, and the reasons adduced for its establishment, to the County Council by any one or more of the authorities, by this Act defined as local authorities, having jurisdiction in the county, or any part of the county. M. O. H. of the county reports on the necessity for such hospital or otherwise.

The County Council shall conduct a local inquiry into the necessity for the establishment of such hospital. And on conclusion of such inquiry shall make an order, either dismissing the petition, or constituting a hospital district, and directing an isolation hospital to be established. When a hospital district has been constituted, a committee shall be formed by the County Council. Such committee shall be a body corporate, having a perpetual succession and

a common seal. It shall be capable of acquiring land, by devise, gift, purchase or otherwise, without licence in mortmain. It may make all necessary rules and regulations for the conduct and management of the hospital, and the patients therein, and these shall include the providing with an ambulance, a connection with a system of telegraphs, training of nurses, and charges for patients.

NOTE.-A person shall not, by reason of his being admitted into and maintained in a hospital established in pursuance of this Act, suffer any disqualification or any loss of franchise or other right or privilege.

Definition.

A "local authority" means, as respects an urban sanitary district, the U. S. A.; as respects a rural sanitary district, the R. S. A.; and in the case of any contributory place being a parish, the vestry or other authority in which the powers of the vestry may be vested by any Act of Parliament; and in the case of any other contributory place situated within the district of a rural sanitary authority, such R. S. A.

I.-Midwives Act, 1902.

This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. From and after the 1st day of April, 1905, any woman who, not being certified under this Act, shall take or use the name or title of midwife, implying that she is a person specially qualified to practise midwifery, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

From and after the 1st day of April, 1910, no woman

shall, habitually and for gain, attend women in child-birth otherwise than under the direction of a qualified medical practitioner, unless she is certified under this Act. And any woman contravening shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds; provided this section shall not apply to legally qualified medical practitioners, or to any one rendering assistance in a case of emergency.

Provision for existing Midwives.

Any woman who, within two years from the date of this Act coming into operation, claims to be certified, shall be so certified if she holds any of the recognized certificates from the recognized places, or such other certificate as may be approved by the Central Midwives Board, or produces evidence, satisfactory to the Board, that at the passing of this Act, she had been for at least one year in bonâ fide practice as a midwife, and that she bears a good character. Constitution and Duties of the Central Midwives Board.

On the passing of this Act, the Lord President of the Council shall take steps to secure the formation of a Central Midwives Board, which shall consist of

1. Four registered medical practitioners, one to be appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London, one by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, one by the Society of Apothecaries, and one by the Incorporated Midwives' Institute; and

2. Two persons (one of whom shall be a woman) to be appointed for terms of three years by the Lord President of the Council; and

3. One person to be appointed for a term of three years by the Association of County Councils, one person to be

appointed for three years by the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses, and one for a term of three years appointed by the Royal British Nurses' Association.

NOTE.-After two years from the commencement of this Act the members under sub-sect. (1) shall retire, but shall be eligible for re-appointment annually.

Duties of Central Midwives Board.

1. To frame rules.

2. To appoint examiners.

3. To decide when, and where, such examinations shall be held.

4. To publish annually a roll of midwives who have been duly certified under this Act.

5. To decide upon the removal from the roll of the name of any midwife for disobeying rules and regulations, or for other misconduct, and also to decide upon the restoration to the roll of the name of any midwife so removed.

6. To issue and cancel certificates.

Midwives' Roll.

There shall be a roll

1. Of the names of midwives existing at the time of this Act coming into operation, and certified under this Act.

2. Of the names of all other midwives who have been certified under this Act.

Penalties.

Penalty for obtaining a certificate by false representation, which shall be a misdemeanour, is imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding twelve months.

Penalty for wilful falsification of the roll, also a misdemeanour, and punishable as above.

Appeal.

Where any woman deems herself aggrieved by any determination of any Court of summary jurisdiction she may appeal therefrom to the Court of quarter sessions.

J.-Prevention of Plague, Cholera and Yellow Fever
Regulations by L. G. B., 1896 and 1902.

Under sect. 130 of " the Act," as amended by the Public Health Act, 1896, the L. G. B. were empowered from time to time to make, alter, and revoke such regulations as may seem fit to them with a view to the treatment of persons affected with cholera or any other infectious disease, as well as to prevent the spread of such disorders, on the seas, rivers, and waters of the United Kingdom, and on the high seas within three miles of the coasts, as on land.

The regulations which they have made by virtue of the powers thus vested in them are divided into five parts.

PART I.

Definitions.

The term "ship" includes vessel or boat.

The term "cholera" includes choleraic diarrhoea. The term "infected" means infected with cholera, yellow fever, or plague, provided that every ship shall be deemed infected in which there is or has been during the voyage, or during the stay of such ship in the port of