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Notification of Births Act, 1907.
During the year 4545 notifications were received under the Notifications
of Births Act, 1907.
Discrepancies in Registration of Births.
The Committee's attention was again directed to discrepancies in the
dates of births as notified to the Medical Officer of Health under the
Notification of Births Act, and the dates of the same births as registered
by the Registrars. In a recent case a birth was registered as having
occurred three weeks after the actual date of birth. It appears the object
in giving false information for registration is to avoid liability to the
penalty to which persons are liable when the birth is not registered,
without reasonable excuse, within 42 days of its occurrence.
The Committee had already called the attention of the Registrar
General to the subject, and after the case mentioned above they directed
that warning notices be issued calling attention to the penalties to which
the responsible parties are liable.
Notification to the Medical Officer of Health under the Notification of
Births Act, is required to be given within 36 hours of birth, but this notice
is required in addition to, and not in substitution for, the notice required
to be given to the Registrar within 42 days.
Under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874, Section 40, any
person who " makes any false statement with intent to have the same
entered in any register of births and deaths, shall for each offence be
liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.
Poplar Health Visiting Association and the Appointment of
a Second Health Visitor.
The following letter was submitted to the Public Health and Housing
Committee:—
Poplar Health Visiting Association.
St. Mildred's House,
Millwall, E.
October 13th, 1911.
To the Chairman, Public Health Committee.
Dear Sir,
At a meeting of the Poplar Health Visiting Association held