H2 ADMINISTRATIVE SECTION 



Its first bulletin was upon "Birth Registration: An 

 Aid in Protecting the Lives and Rights of Children." 

 The Notification of Births Act of England provides 

 for notification within thirty-six hours, and the 

 recognition of its value in bringing the immediate 

 care of doctors and nurses to needy families is a 

 highly effective argument in our campaign for early 

 notification. At the present rate of progress, it will 

 be but a few years before there are uniform vital 

 statistics laws throughout the United States. These 

 laws, like those for the protection of children, must 

 be passed by each state individually and cannot 

 be secured by Federal statute. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mrs. ROGER- GREEN (Burton-on-Trent Health Society) 

 said that all they had heard that morning was very interest- 

 ing, but it was quite impossible of realization in small towns. 

 The question before them was an administrative one, and 

 she thought it was as important a question as they could 

 possibly consider. She would like to ask a question on 

 what she considered to be a matter of vital importance. It 

 was a question which she was at present trying to find a 

 solution for at the Conference. Just before she came to 

 the meeting she* had a talk with the Chairman of their Health 

 Committee. She might tell them that she had made a few 

 suggestions to the Health Committee on the matter of infant 

 care, and the town council had defended themselves behind 

 the answer that what she wanted them to do was not legal. 

 They said that it was not legal for them to give infant con- 

 sultations, so they had to do with propaganda work which 

 they were carrying on in the town. They had thousands 

 who attended their lectures, and they did quite a great deal 

 of work in a general way. They were a small town, Burton- 

 on-Trent, of about 48,000 inhabitants. What she was tell- 

 ing them was really true. They had all their own local 

 associations to keep going, and all this good work about 

 which they had heard so much from the readers of the papers 

 was being kept back through lack of funds, and it had been 

 gently hinted to her that if it could be shown how it 

 was possible for their council it was not a council of 

 public audit to legally give them money for their work. 



