[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health and Port Medical Officer of Health, Great Yarmouth Borough.

  • Great Yarmouth (England). Borough Council. nb2008007343.
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health and Port Medical Officer of Health, Great Yarmouth Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ 5 obtaining special sanitary clauses in Local Acts is avoided, and . sections suitable to local requirements can be adopted with a minimum of expense and trouble. The Notification of Births Act, providing for the early notification of births and still-births, is another adoptive Act which will be most useful in a certain number of cases. Section 13 of the Education Act of 1907 is part of a compulsory measure which imposes a new duty on Local Education Authorities, viz :—The provision of arrangements for the medical inspection of all children attending the Elementary Schools. The Board of Education has issued two very im¬ portant memoranda on this Section which will have far reaching effects 011 the well-being of more than a ninth of the present population, and will in future years affect more than 90 per cent, of the total population. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, H. W. BEACH, Medical Officer of Health.