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Infantile Mortality.
The number of deaths of infants under one year of age
was 54, as compared with 888 births, giving an infantile
mortality rate per 1,000 of 60.81, as compared with 84 deaths
and a rate of 94.49 for last year. The rate for England and
Wales for 1908 was 121.
The Infantile Mortality rate is the lowest recorded. This
low death-rate is largely due to the very few number of deaths
from Zymotic Diseases. Although there was rather a severe
outbreak of Measles during the Autumn, there were only three
deaths recorded during the year from this disease in infants
under one year of age; the deaths from diarrhœal diseases
also was very low.

The Finchley Urban District Council have made a special
effort to deal with the question of Infantile Mortality by
adopting the Notification of Births Act, which came into
force in this District in April last.
The Notification of Births Act, 1907, makes provision for
the notification of every birth in a district to be sent to the
Medical Officer of Health within 36 hours of the birth. The
duty of notifying lies with the father, if actually residing in
the house at the time of the birth, or any person in attendance
upon the mother at the time of or within six hours
after the birth.
Tho Act is an adoptive one, and was adopted by the
Finchley Urban District Council, and came into operation in
April, 1908. This Act in no way supersedes the Begistration