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Infant Mortality.— A low infant mortality rate is characteristic
of the Chislehurst Urban District, but during the last three years
it has been exceptionally low, and 1914 has the lowest rate recorded
in the district, having only three infant deaths and a rate of 17
per 1,000 births, although the actual number of births registered
(176) is the highest since 1907, and the birth-rate the highest since
1910. In 1913 there were four deaths and a rate of 25 per 1,000
births, in 1912 eight deaths and a rate of 54, and in 1911 fourteen
deaths and a rate of 84.
The Infant Mortality rate for the whole of England and Wales
for 1914 was 105.
The Midwives Act, 1902, is administered by the Kent County
Council direct.
The Notification of Births Act, 1907, has not been adopted.
Two cases of Opthalmia Neonatorum have been notified during
the year.
Maternity and Child Welfare was considered by the Council,
and I reported that as the County Council have the supervision of
Midwives and the care of School Children in their hands, I thought
it was desirable that they should develop a County Organisation to
deal with this question also, as suggested in the Local Government
Board's Circular Letter on the matter dated July 30th, 1914.

(A). NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Under the Infectious Disease (Notification) Acts, 1889 and
1899, the following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in the District,
viz.: Small-pox, Cholera, Diphtheria, Membranous Croup,
Erysipelas, the disease known as Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina, and
the Fevers known by any of the following names:—Typhus,
Typhoid or Enteric, Relapsing, Continued and Puerperal.