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INFANT LIFE PROTECTION.
The functions with regard to infant life protection under Part I
of the Children Act, 1908, as amended by Part V of the Children
and Young Persons Act, 1932, were transferred from the London
County Council to the Metropolitan Borough Councils on the
1st April, 1933.
These Acts place the following obligations upon any person who
undertakes for reward the nursing and maintenance of an infant
under the age of nine years:—
(1) To give notice in writing within specified limits of time to
the local authority, stating the name and sex of the infant,
the date and place of its birth, the name of the person
undertaking its nursing and maintenance, the dwelling
within which it is to be, or is being, kept and the name of
the person from whom it is to be, or was, received.
(2) To give notice of the death or removal of such an infant
to the local authority and to the person from whom the
infant was received.
Powers are granted to the local authority:—
(1) To fix the maximum number of infants under the age of
nine years who may be kept in any dwelling in which there
is any infant in respect of whom notice is required to be
given.
(2) To secure the removal to a place of safety of any infant of
whom notice is required to be given:—
(a) from any premises which are overcrowded, insanitary
or dangerous,
(b) from the care of any person who, by reason of old age,
infirmity, ill-health, ignorance, negligence, inebriety,
immorality or criminal conduct, or for any other reason,
is unfit to have the care of it,
(c) from any premises or the care of any person if it is
being kept in contravention of any of the provisions of
Part I of the principal Act, or
(d) is being kept in an environment which is detrimental
to the infant.