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NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT.

Five Midwives have registered to practice in the Town.
Other Midwives act temporarily.
One eighth of the mothers attended by Midwives were
visited. The greater number suckled their own children, a
few of them only partly, but those who were unable were
only two in number.
One Midwife has had her name taken off the Register for
neglect in Puerperal Fever. There were four cases of
Puerperal Fever notified during the year. None of them
proved fatal; other cases notified were sent into the
Infirmary with Puerperal Fever contracted in other districts
of the Kingston Union.
150 Births were not notified. I am aware that some of
the Medical Men protest against this Act, but I would ask
them to consider whether a protest of five years is not
sufficient. Their protest has no effect at all on the framers
of the Act, but entails an extra amount of unnecessary
trouble on the officials who have always done their utmost to
save trouble to the Medical Men of the Town.