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always that if a person required to give notice as aforesaid satisfies the
court that he had reasonable grounds to suppose that notice had been
duly given he shall not be liable to any fine under this section.
2.—The corporation shall pay to the father or person aforesaid who
notifies a birth under the provisions of this section a fee of one
shilling.
3.—-Any registrar of births and deaths whose sub-district or any part
thereof is situated within the borough shall at all reasonable times
have access to the notices of birth received by the medical officer of
health under the provisions of this section, or to any book in which
such notices maybe recorded, for the purpose of obtaining information
concerning births that have occurred within his sub-district.
4.—The notification required to be made under this section shall be in
addition to, and not in substitution for, the requirements of the
General Acts relating to the registration of births and deaths.
5.—The corporation shall cause to be given public notice of the effect
of the provisions of this section by advertisement in the local newspapers
and by handbills, and shall give formal notice thereof by
registered post to every medical practitioner in the Borough and any
other registered medical practitioner known to be in practice in the
Borough, and to all women duly registered as midwives or known to
be practising midwifery within the- Borough, and otherwise in such
manner as the corporation think sufficient, and this section shall
come into operation at such time not being less than one month after
the first publication of such an advertisement as aforesaid as the
corporation may fix.
6.—The provisions of this section shall cease to be in force within the
Borough at the expiration of five years from the date of the passing of
the Act unless they shall have been continued by Act of Parliament
or by Provisional Order made by the Local Government Board and
confirmed by Parliament, which Order the Local Government Board
are hereby empowered to make in accordance with the provisions of
the Public Health Act, 187-5.
(This Bill has since become Law.)
THE INFANTILE .MORTALITY.
The following table shows the Infantile Mortality, quarter by quarter, in
St. Pancras and other localities, and also the average monthly 4 ft. earth
temperature as an index of the seasonal influence.