ABSTRACT
PUBLIC HEALTH administration varies from country to country according to the laws of that country and the machinery for central and local government. In England and Wales, during the last ten years there has been major legislation relating to practically all the services in which the Public Health Department is interested. There have been: the Midwives' Act; three Acts relating to adoption; the Children's Act 1948; the Nursery and Child Minders' Act 1948; the National Insurance Act; the National Assistance Act; and the National Health Service Act. In 1944 the new Education Act included an amended statutory basis for the School Health Service, under which the Handicapped Pupils' Regulations have since been made, relating to children from the age of 2. That the country has gone through something of a social revolution can be illustrated from the first two paragraphs of the National Health Service Act:
