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Children Act, 1908.
Notice as to the Keeping of Nurse Infants and oth;.r
Mattehs.
The undermentioned provisions of the Act will come into operation
on 1st April, 1909 :—
Infants received for Hire.
Any person who undertakes for reward the nursing and maintenance
of one or more infants under the age of seven years apart from their
parents for a longer period than forty-eight hours, shall within that time
give notice in writing of the fact to the Council.*
Removal or Death of Infant.
Notice of the removal or death of a nurse infant must within fortyeight
hours be sent to the Council.*
Notice of the death of a nurse infant must within twenty-four hours
be sent to the Coroner. If a death certificate has been issued such
certificate should be sent with the notice to the Coroner.
Forms of notice for the above purposes will be supplied by the
Council* on application to the Chief Officer of the Public Control Department,
31, Spring Gardens, S.W., and any person who has received an
infant as aforesaid and fails to give notice as aforesaid or wilfully makes
or causes any other person to make any false or misleading statement in
any such notice will be guilty of an offence.
Number of Infants to be kept.
The number of nurse infants who may be kept in a notified dwelling
will be fixed by the Council, and no infant must be kept in excess of the
number so fixed.
Inspection.
A visitor duly appointed and authorised in writing by the Council*
will from time to time inspect the infants referred to in any notice and the
dwelling in which they are kept, in order to be satisfied as to the nursing
* London County Council.