The Bill creating a Ministry of Health has been published.
The Ministry is to absorb the Local Government Board and the National Insurance Commission, and is to take over certain powers exercised by the Board of Education, the Privy Council, and the Home Office with regard to mothers and young children. The powers of other Departments may be transferred hereafter. Scotland is to have a Board of Health, fulfilling a similar purpose, and Ireland is not affected by the Bill, but the Welsh Insurance Commission is placed under the Ministry of Health. It is clear that the new Department, as successor to the Local Government Board, will have powers, relating, for example, to Poor Relief, which do not pertain to a Ministry of Health, and these may be transferred. There is evident need for a rearrangement of functions between the new Ministry and the Home Office.
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