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2. Any married woman or widow, or any other woman entitled to
the maternity benefit provided for in section eight of the National
Insurance Act, 1911, shall be entitled, on giving reasonable notice, to
buy from the local sanitary authority of the borough or district in which
such woman may be at the time of her confinement pure milk as provided
by this Act, on condition that she shall have resided in such borough
or district for a month previous to her confinement.
3. The quantities of pure milk provided in this Act shall be such
quantities as such person shall require, but shall not exceed in the case
of any person more than one quart per diem, and the period for which
such pure milk shall be supplied shall not exceed three months from the
date of the confinement of the person for whose benefit pure milk is
provided, and the prices charged shall be such prices as the Local Government
Board shall, by regulation made after consultation with the local
sanitary authority, from time to time fix.
4. No person shall suffer any disqualification or shall suffer any
disfranchisement by reason only of the provisions provided by this Bill.
5. This Act may be cited as the Infant Milk Act. 1914
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Notifications; The Public Health (Ophthalmia Neonatorum)
Regulations, 1914.
Notifications of Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Seventy-five cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum were notified during
the year, see Tables XXV.-XXVIII., 28 Poplar, 30 Bromley and 17 Bow.
Upon receipt of a notification the case is immediately visited by one
of the Health Visitors.
The Public Health (Ophthalmia Neonatorum) Regulations, 1914.
The Local Government Board issued an Order, dated 6th February,
1914, under Section 130 of the Public Health Act, 1875, extending the
compulsory notification of the disease to every sanitary district in England
and Wales.
The regulations require that certain additional information shall be
given in each case beyond that required in connection with notifications
under the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act.