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Drainage," "Sanitary Certification of all Houses before
Occupation," "Disinfection," "Return Cases of Scarlet
Fever," "Inter-notification of Disease," "Rural Water
Supplies," &c., &c.
At the concluding meeting the Presidents of the
Sections presented the following resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted:—
Preventive Medicine Section.
That in the opinion of this Congress the cremation of the dead,
especially in the case of infectious disease, is a rational and veryhygienic
process, and the Congress urge upon the British Institute of
Public Health to use all proper means of urging upon the Government
the desirability of promoting a measure enabling sanitary authorities,
if they so desire, to build Crematoria, and conduct them under proper
supervision.
Municipal and Parliamentary Section.
1. That the information put before this Section shows that the
undoubted emission of smoke from chimneys of mills and factories,
large hotels and other buildings, and from steamboats, can be prevented
by careful firing or mechanical stokers, and without causing extra
expenditure to the owners; it is desirable that the authorities of
Glasgow, and other districts generally, should enforce the Smoke
Prevention clause of their Local Act more stringently than they have
hitherto done.
2. That it be a representation from the Congress of the British
Institute of Public Health to Her Majesty's Government that facilities
be afforded to Local Authorities to apply tests for the detection of
tuberculosis in cattle within their jurisdiction.
3. That a representation from this Congress be made to Her
Majesty's Government in favour of the early introduction of legislation
with the object of rendering it compulsory upon Local Authorities to
provide central or district abattoirs, these being, in the opinion of the
Congress, indispensable for the proper supervision and inspection of
meat supply.
Sanitary Work.
In Table 6, Appendix, there will be found a summary
of the work carried out during the year by the Sanitary