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good enough to instruct the Local Registrars to supply the
Medical Officer of Health with weekly returns giving details of
the births that are registered in the Borough, for which the
Council would be prepared to pay the Registrars the same fee
as that prescribed for returns of deaths.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Edward Wright,
Town Clerk.
The following reply was received to this letter:—
Somerset House,
London, W.C.
Sir,
I am directed by the Registrar-General to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter on the 22nd instant, and in reply to
state for the information of your Council, that the matter dealt
with therein has been under correspondence between him and
the Local Government Board for some time, and that he now
hopes to be able to issue instructions to the local Registrars
authorizing them to furnish to all Sanitary Authorities who
desire them, detailed returns of births on forms to be supplied
by him for the purpose, on payment of similar fees to which
registrars are entitled for detailed returns of deaths.
I am, Sir, Your obedient servant,
Noel A. Humphreys,
Chief Clerk.
Ed. Wright, Esq.,
Town Clerk,
Town Hall, Catford.
The difficulties having been surmounted we were enabled
to obtain the required returns. A pamphlet on infant feeding
and management, written in popular style was distributed to
homes in which births have been recorded.
The birth lists were examined every Monday morning,
the day on which they were received, and a selection of homes
made by your Medical Officer of Health in which it was thought