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an excellent little booklet entitled, "How to Manage a
Baby," which is published at the price of Id.
I have spoken to Mr. Darby Jones, the Registrar of Births,
who, if the Council agree to the proposal, has expressed his
willingness to keep a supply of the booklets in his office, and
hand a copy to each person of the poorer class registering a
birth. This would be a very simple and practical method of
putting' information at the right time in the hands of those
who most require it.
CONSUMPTION.
In 1904 the Council adopted a system of Voluntary Notification
of Consumption, and a register is now kept of the
cases notified.
The information given by the medical men of the district
is private, and the action of the Sanitary Authority is only
exercised in those cases in which through poverty or ignorance,
it is considered that the health of others may be in risk.
Up to the end of the year only 13 cases had been notified,
but as there is reason to believe that many more cases than
these exist, I recommend that the medical men shall be reminded
every year of the arrangement to which they have
agreed.
During the year there were 20 deaths from consumption
registered. Although this record is not so good as for the
years 1903 and 1904, it is considerably below the mean of the
preceding 10 years,