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The infantile mortality statistics for Lambeth Borough
during 1909 are remarkable, and, even allowing tor the
favourable meteorological conditions that existed, are worthy
of note as shewing that the methods adopted throughout the
Borough of Lambeth for the prevention of infantile mortality
appear to be proving successful. In this connection, the
systematic visiting of houses wherein births have been
registered or notified, and the widespread distribution of
pamphlets on infant-feeding, together with the influence of
the Municipal Milk Depot in the Marsh Ward, must not
be forgotten (vide Milk Depot pp. 136-144). The results
should prove even more satisfactory as the Notification of
Births Act, 1907, becomes more generally known. This
Act came into force within the Borough of Lambeth on
March 9th, 1908. (See Special Report on page 135.)