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staff have responded to appeals for monetary help, it
is unfair that they should be called upon, and something
ought to be done to remedy this state of affairs.
I suggest that the Bethnal Green Health Society
should take steps to raise a fund to be used in conjunction
with our work. A lady visitor would be
welcome and useful if she were able to offer material
help in addition to mere advice.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT, 1907.
So far, the Council of this Borough has not thought
fit to put into operation the Notification of Births Act
which was passed in 1907. As is well known, this
Act is an adoptive one, but the Local Government
Board has power, under section 3, to require those
authorities which have not adopted the Act, to do so.
Eleven London Boroughs, including our own, are in
this position, and I learn from the published reports
of the County Council that they have asked the Local
Government Board to put the Act in force generally
throughout the Metropolis; should the Board comply
with this request, some action will have to be taken
by the Bethnal Green Borough Council in the direction
of a redistribution of the duties of the sanitary
staff; and if this be not found sufficient, an increase
in numbers will be necessary. Section 6 (1) of the
London County Council General Powers Act, 1908,
enables Borough Councils to appoint suitable persons
as health visitors, to deal with the management of
young children and the like. The London County
Council may repay to Borough Councils appointing