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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 bona fide working men while travelling through
the country in search of work, and that such agency
should be worked on the same lines as the Inter-Cantonal
Union of Switzerland for the relief of poor
travellers.
14. That the unemployed travelling bona fide in search of
work, not being habitual vagrants, should not be treated as
vagrants, but as far as possible be assisted to obtain employment.
Labour Colonies.
15. That the time has arrived when the Local Government
Board should promote legislation for the establishment of labour
colonies for the compulsory detention of habitual vagrants until
they have acquired power to work and self restraint.
16. That this Conference approves and affirms the resolutions
passed by the Executive Council of the Association of Poor Law
Unions in England and Wales at their meeting in September,
1903, as follows:—