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That it is desirable that the notification of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
{Consumption) should be compulsory.
That application be made to the Local Government Board for an order
to be made—-
(1.) To include Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Consumption) among the
diseases to be notified under Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act1891
; and
(2.) To extend the provisions of the following Sections of the above
Act to Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Consumption):—
Section 60.—Cleansing and disinfecting of premises, etc.
„ 61.—Disinfection of bedding, etc.
„ 62.—Infectious rubbish thrown into ashpits to be disinfected.
„ 63.—Penalty on letting houses in which infected persons have
been lodging.
„ 64.—Penalty on persons letting houses making false statements
as to infectious disease.
„ 65.—Penalty on ceasing to occupy house without disinfection or
notice to owner, or making false answer.
„ 69. —Prohibiting infectious persons carrying on business (in so
far as it relates to the milking of cows and to the sale
and distribution of milk).
That in the opinion of this Conference it is desirable, in order to limit the
spread of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, provision should be made for public inspection
and control at its several sources of the milk supply of England, and that the
Local Government Board be asked to take steps to secure the efficient administration
of the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, 1885, and Orders amending
the same, by making compulsory regulations.
That the provision conferred by Section 7 (1) of the Factory and Workshop
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 tul)erculosis.
That a Sanatorium is needed for the open air treatment of poor persons.
That the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board should be the Central
Authority for London and that the Local Government Board be requested to
confer on, or if necessary to obtain for, the said Managers power to act in that
capacity; and that they should be empowered to use for Sanatorium purposes the
Southern Hospital recently erected by them at Carlshalton.