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Inspectors, were appointed Inspectors for the purpose of the Act, and your
Committee were authorised to take such steps as might be necessary to ensure
that the provisions of the Act were brought to the notice of such persons
residing in the City as were likely to be affected thereby.
With a view therefore of making such persons acquainted with their
obligations, a Notice has been left at every registered tenement house in the
City, at the ten blocks of dwellings, including those belonging to the
Corporation in Harrow Alley and Stoney Lane, and at the various Police
Stations throughout the City. The City medical men and midwives have
also been supplied with copies.
Since these Notices were distributed, four communications have been
received from persons taking charge of children, but on investigation it was
found that to none of these cases did the Act apply. In three instances the
child was in the care of relatives; in the fourth instance, though in the
care of a stranger for reward, the child was taken charge of by day only, and
slept with her mother at night.
A case was discovered where parents resident in the City had put out their
infant to nurse in another district, and this was duly reported to the authority
concerned.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT, 1907.
During the year 224 births of children were notified under the above Act,
including 7 still-births. Fifty-one other notifications relating to children not
belonging to the City were forwarded to the Medical Officers of their
respective districts.
Of the 224 City births—
122 were notified by Medical Practitioners.
57 „ „ from Hospitals, &c.
20 „ „ by Midwives.
25 „ „ „ the Parents.
THE CARE OF INFANTS.
During the year 885 visits were paid to the homes to give instruction in
the care and feeding of infants. The visits appear to be appreciated, and in
many cases looked forward to. This is extremely gratifying, for the success
of the work depends wholly on the way in which the visits are received.