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Notification of Births Act ; 1907.
The following letter was submitted to the Public Health and Housing
Committee :—
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.,
26th February, 1908.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board to advert to your
letter of the 21st instant, and to state that they hereby consent to the
adoption of the Notification of Births Act, 1907, within the Metropolitan
Borough of Poplar, and, in pursuance of Section 2 (2) and
paragraph 5 of the Schedule to the Act, they hereby fix the 9th March,
1908, as the date on which the Borough Council's resolution of
adoption shall come into operation.
I am to point out that Section 2 (3) of the Act requires that the
local authority shall bring the provisions of the Act to the attention of
all medical practitioners and midwives practising in their area.
Moreover, Section 1 (2) requires that the local authority shall supply
without charge addressed and stamped postcards containing the form
of notice to any medical practitioner or midwife, residing or practising
in their area, who applies for the same.
I am at the same time to advert to your letter of the 21st
December last, and to state that the Board do not see any objection
to Voluntary Health Visitors acting in concert with the lady officially
appointed by the Borough Council as Health Visitor, the latter, of
course, working under the direction and supervision of the Medical
Officer of Health.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LITHIBY,
Assistant Secretary.
The Town Clerk, Poplar.
Notice of the coming into operation within the Borough on the 9th
March, 1908, of the Council's resolution of adoption of the Notification of
Births Act, 1907, was given to the local medical practitioners and midwives,
and public notice was also given thereof.
The Act provides that it shall be the duty of the father of a child, if
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