§ MR. A. ALLEN (Christchurch)To ask the President of the Local Government Board, how many metropolitan boroughs have decided to adopt the Notification of Births Act; and whether any, and if so which metropolitan boroughs have decided not to adopt this Act.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) The Act has been adopted in the City of London and in sixteen out of the twenty- 620 eight metropolitan boroughs. I have received information to the effect that it is proposed to adopt it in another of these boroughs. The only metropolitan borough in which, so far as I am aware, the council have expressed a view adverse to the adoption of the Act is the borough of Deptford.