A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related ...

education authorities, which were given powers to provide secondary education.
Cremation Act (2 Edw.VII, c.8) regulated cremations and the building of crematoria.
International (now Pan American) Sanitary Bureau established in Washington.
Association of County Medical Officers formed. See 1974.
Hospital Officers Association (later Institute of Health Services Management) founded
by J Stephen Neil.
"Manual of Antenatal Pathology and Hygiene" by JW Ballantyne (1861-1923,
Edinburgh obstetrician) published. Ballantyne was the first doctor in the UK to establish an
antenatal clinic for the supervision of pregnant women. See 1915.
Chromosomes identified by WS Sutton (1877-1916). See 1910.
"A Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence, Toxicology and Public Health" by John
Glaister (see 1898) published.
Westfield College became a school of London University.
Start of New Earswick, an industrial garden village near York; became the
responsibility of the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust in 1904.
1903 Local Government (Transfer of Powers) Act (3 Edw.VII c.15) gave authority for the
Local Government Board to transfer, by provisional orders, powers of government
departments to county councils.
Housing of the Working Classes Act (3 Edw.VII c.39) amended details of the 1890 act.
See 1909.
Employment of Children Act (3 Edw.VII c.45), followed the report of a departmental
committee, Cd.5229, revised the law regulating the employment of children; and gave powers
to local authorities to make by-laws concerning their employment. See 1920.
Education (London) Act (3 Edw.VII, c.24) dealt with the application of the principles
of the 1902 act to London.
Poor Prisoners' Defence Act (3 Edw.VII c.38) provided legal aid, for the first time, for
defending criminal charges. See 1926.
Motor Car Act (3 Edw.VII, c.36) raised the speed limit to 20 miles per hour; required
numbering, registering and lighting of all cars; and introduced an offence of reckless driving.
A Bill to introduce driving tests and penalties for driving under the influence of alcohol was
rejected. See 1930.
Royal Commission on Physical Training in Scotland, Cd.1507, recommended
introducing a Scottish physical education scheme; advocated the medical inspection of school
children; and emphasised the importance of adequate diet for physical and mental
development.
Voluntary notification of tuberculosis introduced in Edinburgh; became compulsory in
1907.
Joyce Green Smallpox Hospital (with 940 beds) opened at Dartford, Kent, replaced the
old wooden battleships (Atlas and Endymion) which had been used as smallpox hospitals.