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even to England, but is to be found in nearly all civilised
countries.
The Notification of Births Act, 1907, was adopted throughout
the Borough, and came into operation on March 9th,
1908. Further particulars will be found as to the notifications
received under the heading ot Notification of Births
Act (see below).
Returns of all Births (with addresses ot mothers) that
oocur in Lambeth have also been obtained from the District
Registrars, and this information, in conjunction with that
obtained from the Notification of Births Act, has again
proved of great use in connection with the Borough
Council's endeavours to lessen the high mortality amongst
infants (under 1 year of age) by distributing pamphlets
dealing with the proper management and feeding of infants,
visiting mothers, etc. The maximum time allowed for
birth registration is 42 days, but this delay is detrimental
to satisfactory administrative procedure, and has been
altered by the Notification of Births Act, 1907, which limits
the time of notification to 36 hours from the time of birth,
though, on the other hand, all births are not yet notified
by those responsible.
Notification of Births Act.
When the Notification of Births Act, 1907, was adopted
by the Council and came into operation throughout the Borough
of Lambeth on March 9th, 1908, it became necessary
to appoint a Female Health Visitor, so that the houses,
wherein births were notified, might be visited and
such measures taken as might be found necessary. Without
such administrative procedure, the Notification
of Births Act would be useless. 'Since the Act
came into force, a total of 15319 births have been
notified up to the end of 1910, viz., 3473 in 1908 (10
months), 5143 in 1909, and 6703 in 1910. These 15319
births were notified as follows:—