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London County Council 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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County Council shall, if directed by the Local Government Board, withhold the whole or any part
of the payment of the sum due to such authority.
The Act provides that for the purposes of the distribution of the fund an estimate of population
on the 6th April in each year shall be made by the Registrar-General upon returns which the Local
Government Board receive from the authority making the poor rate in each parish showing the
total number of houses entered in the rate book of the parish.

The following table shows the estimated population on the 6th April, 1907,and the amount of excess of contribution over grant, or grant over contribution in respect of each district for the year ended 31st March, 1908-

Sanitary area.Estimated population, 6th April, 1907.Equalisation charge, being excess of contribution over grant for year ended 31st March, 1908.Net grant, being excees of grant over contribution for year ended 31st March, 1908.
£s.d.£s.d.
Paddington145,2834,798———
Kensington183,19716,91834—
Hammersmith119,768—7,77133
Fulham156,705—14,2426—
Chelsea72,2865,9253—-
Westminster, City of172,041110,970193-
St. Marylebone128,60617,857156-
Hampstead87,6386,36911-
St. Pancras229,825-8,56556
Islington336,628- '29,83021
Stoke Newington52,543—3,43528
Hackney221,704—21,108152
Holborn54,01513,50415—-
Finsbury102,6791,697151-
London, City of24,318127,199—11-
Shoreditch116,878—7,082—6
Bethnal-green128,876-16,386155
Stepney286,934—29,73379
Poplar168,085-18,375126
Southwark197,749-13,786199
Bermondsey128,607-6,40422
Lambeth308,774-23,3316—
Battersea172,912—13,80416
Wandsworth308,663—22,09154
Camberwell267,910-28,5309—
Deptford112,777-10,321175
Greenwich102,838——7,778144
Lewisham162,893m11,691711
Woolwich136,454-12,42023
Inner Temple127602411—
Middle Temple &107343186—
Balance of Fund 1900-1 retained pend financial adjustments under the Lon don Government Act, 18995031911

Midwives Act, 1902.
The number of midwives whose names up to the end of the year 1906 had been placed on the
Roll of the Central Midwives Board was 24,400, and of these 2,350 gave London addresses. During
the year 1907, 368 additional names of midwives were added to the London list as the result of the
examinations held by the Central Midwives Board, bringing the total to 2,718. The classification of
these midwives was as follows —
Possessing certificates from the Obstetrical Society of London 1,611
Possessing certificates from a recognised hospital 213
Having passed the examination of the Central Midwives Board 710
Enrolled by virtue of having been in bona fide practice as midwives a year
prior to the passing of the Act 184
2,718
These figures do not represent the midwives actually practising in London at the present time, but
only the numbers who at the time of enrolment gave addresses in London. Some of these midwives have
removed to other parts of the country ; the majority act as monthly nurses, while others again are on
the staffs of hospitals and institutions. London being one of the largest training centres, many pupils
qualify in London and afterwards go abroad, or to other parts of the country to practise. It is only
those midwives who are actually practising as such who come under the Council's supervision and about