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Lying-in hospitals, charities which could not be established without a previous licence from the quarter sessions; legitimate children born in them are not to be chargeable to the parish of their births, 13 Geo. 3, c. 82. See 24 & 26 Vict. c.101, and (English) Midwives Act, 1927 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 32), s. 13, abolishing the necessity for a licence; also Public Health Act, 1936, Part VI., s. 181 et seq