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Since the Notification of Birth; Extension Act came
into force on the 1st September to the end of the year only
two Births were notified, both by medical men. There are
not any midwives residing in the district those attending
cases come from the surrounding districts.
In connection with the notification of measles as well as
Health Visiting for Child Welfare, I made the following report
to your Council:—
The Measles Regulations, 1915, will come into force in
this as well as all other districts on the 1st January, 1916, by
which not only has every case of measles to be notified, but
also visited, investigated and particulars recorded, by an
official under the direction and suprvision of the M.O.H.,
and the requirements under these regulations are evidently
supplementary to those required to be carried out in the
previous regulations concerning Child Welfare, which was
foreshadowed by the compulsory adoption of the Notification
of Births Acts. The essential official in each being a female
health visitor.
As I have before pointed out, such an official is absolutely
necessary to carry out the duties under these regulations. It
is a difficult problem for an Urban District Council with such
limited means as Greenford to deal with, and I have already
stated I think for such districts it should be a County matter.
I, however, pointed this out to an Inspector from the Local
Government Board, who had come down to investigate
what was being done in an adjoining District and he asked if
I knew whether the County Council intended doing anything ?
I would suggest that the Middlesex County Council be asked
whether they are likely to formulate a scheme as suggested
in the Child Welfare Circular for such districts as this, and
also that the matter may be duly considered so that when the
L.G.B. Inspector comes, the officials shall know the decision
of the Council.
The Council decided not to take any steps in the matter at
present