View report page

92
(b) To detain and isolate persons exposed to infection, and
to disinfect them and their clothes.
(c) To temporarily close a common lodging-house in whole
or in part; compensation to be given to the keeper of the house.
(9.) That the Local Authority should have power to order the
keeper of a common lodging-house in which there has been
infectious disease to refuse fresh admissions for such time as may
be required by the authority.
(10.) That the Local Authority should be empowered to
require medical examination and disinfection of all persons
entering casual wards.
(11.) That the Local Sanitary Authority should have power to
require the removal and isolation of any inmate of a casual ward
who may reasonably be suspected of being liable to convey
infectious disease.
(12.) That the Local Authority should have full power to
require the cleansing of the person and the disinfection of the
clothes of any person in a casual ward, whether infected or exposed
to infection.
Labour Bureaux.
(13.)(a) That the time has arrived when the Local
Government Board should promote legislation for the establishment
of labour bureaux in the areas of every County Council and
every County Borough Council.
(b) That this Conference is also of opinion that it is desirable
that a national voluntary agency should be formed for assisting
bond fide working men while travelling through the country in