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Section 64—Penalty on persons letting
houses making false statements as to
infectious disease.
Section 65—Penalty on ceasing to occupy
a house without disinfection or notice to
owner, or making false answer.
That it is desirable, in order to limit the spread of tuberculosis,
that provision should be made for public
inspection and control, at its several sources, of the
milk supply of England; and to ask the Local
Government Board to take steps to secure the efficient
administration of the Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops
Order, 1885, and Orders amending the same.
That application be made to the Local Government Board
for an Order to extend the provisions of Section 69 of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, to pulmonary
tuberculosis, in so far as it relates to the milking of
cows and to the sale and distribution of milk.
That the provisions conferred by Section 7 (1) of the
Factory and Workshops Act, 1901, namely, that in
every room in any factory or workshop sufficient
means of ventilation shall be provided, and sufficient
ventilation maintained, be rigidly enforced, and a
similar provision extended to all places where people
are assembled together for any lengthened period,
with a view to restricting the spread of pulmonary
tuberculosis.
That a sanatorium is needed for the open-air treatment of
poor persons suffering from pulmonary consumption,
in the early stages of the disease, and should be provided
by a central authority acting for the Metropolis
as a whole.
That the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
by reason of their practical experience in the management
of hospitals for infectious disease, being