The National Insurance Act introduced by the Liberal government in 1911 was not extended to Ireland to any significant extent. It instituted an insurance-based system to provide benefits to employees on illness. It also provided for medical care based on panels of general practitioners.<\/p>\n
The proposal was strongly opposed by the Catholic hierarchy as being unsuitable to Irish conditions. The Irish Party opposed the inclusion of medical benefits so far as Ireland was concerned.<\/p>\n
The Tuberculosis Prevention (Ireland) Act 1908 gave councils powers to provide sanitoria to combat tuberculosis.<\/p>\n
The councils were given powers under legislation to make arrangements for the health of expectant nursing mothers and children under five years in 1915 and 1919. Councils were required to provide medical inspections of children attending national schools.<\/p>\n
Nurses were registered by the General Nursing Council of Ireland after 1919.<\/p>\n\n
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