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After deducting the 261 cases which died unvaccinated from the
total births, the successful vaccinations equalled 56 per cent. of the
remaining births. This is slightly less than during the corresponding
half-year of 1906. The proportion during this latter half-year
was 57 per cent.
PUBLIC HEALTH LEGISLATION, 1907.
Butter and Margarine Act, 1907.— An Act to make further
provision with respect to the manufacture, importation and sale
of butter and margarine, and similar substances.
Factory and Workshop Act, 1907.— An Act to amend the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, with respect to Laundries, and
to extend that Act to certain institutions and to provide for the
inspection of certain premises.
Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907.— An Act
to enable regulations to be made for the prevention of danger
arising to public health from the importation, preparation, storage
and distribution of articles of food.
Notification of Births Act, 1907.— This is an Adoptive Act
which became law on the 28th August, 1907.
It is an Act to provide for the early notification of births. It
enacts that in any area where it has been adopted by any local
authority, it shall be the duty of the father of every child born, if
he is actually residing in the house where the birth takes place,
and also of any person in attendance upon the mother at the
time of, or within six hours after, the birth, to give notice in writing
of the birth to the Medical Officer of Health of the said district.
This notice may be given by posting a prepaid addressed letter
or postcard, or delivering a written notice of the birth, to the
Medical Officer of Health at his office or residence. The local
authority must supply addressed and stamped postcards containing