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5,143 in 1909, 6,703 in 1910, 7,094 in 1911, 7,336 in 1912, 7,158 in
1913, 7,397 in 1914, 7,091 in 1915, 7,293 in 1916, 6,311 in 1917,
5,890 in 1918, 7,260 in 1919, 9,910 in 1920, 9,023 in 1921, 8,564 in
1922, 8,443 in 1923, 7,782 in 1924, 7,734 in 1925, 7,481 in 1926, and
7,212 in 1927.
All Lambeth notified births are referred to the various voluntary
Welfare Centres which are now comprised in the Lambeth
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme (approved by the Ministry
of Health), and, in connection therewith, the babies are visited and
re-visited systematically, the mothers attending at such Centres,
if and when they wish, or can be persuaded, to do so.
It is impossible to give statistics of the educational value of this
official systematic visiting of houses, wherein births have been notified,
but there is no doubt as to the existence of such educational
value.
A list of all notified births is sent to the London County Council
weekly in pursuance of sub-section 5, of section 2, of the Act, and the
Medical Officers of Health concerned are written to in connection
with babies, which are born in Lambeth Public Institutions but
which belong (for classification purposes) to Districts outside the
Borough.

* Vide also Special Report on the Maternity Needs of the Borough of
Lambeth (Appendix III) of the 1924 Annual Report of the Medical Officer of
Health.