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(b) That no employer oflabour shall permit a woman advanced
in pregnancy to engage in factory labour unless her ability
therefor has beeu certified to the satisfaction of the Local
Authority.
7. (c) That, having regard to the ascertained fact that in
centres of industries where women are largely employed away
from their homes, an excessive number of deaths of infants takes
place, and that this is contributed to by the improper conditions
existing at the houses in which infants are placed out to nurse, it
is necessary that the persons by whom, and the places into
which infants are received, should be under supervision by the
Local Sanitary Authority.
(b) That the Infant Life Protection Act be amended to remedy
abuses which are not at present provided against.
8. That all preparations offered or sold as food for infants
should be certified by a Government Analyist as non.injurious,
and that each packet should contain its analysis.
9. That the Dairies, Milkshops, and Cowsheds Order is
defective, and that any amendment should extend the definition
of disease as applied to animals, and should make the provision
of Regulations by Local Authorities compulsory. That the scope
of the Regulations should be extended to cover dirty milk, and
should enable Local Authorities to prohibit the sale of any milk
which fails to comply with the conditions of purity agreed upon.
10. That the Midwives Act, 1902, should be extended to
Scotland and Ireland.
At the close of the Conference it was unanimously agreed—
" That the Conference resolve itself into a Committee
to give effect to the foregoing resolutions, and with power to
remit to an Executive Committee to carry out the same."