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"That application be made to the Local Government Board
for an Order to be made to extend the provisions of Section 69 of the
Public Health (London) Act to Pulmonary Tuberculosis, in so
far as it relates to the milking of cows and to the sale and distribution
of milk."
"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 tuberculosis.
(a) 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.
(b) That the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
by reason of their practical experience in the management of
hospitals for infectious disease, being eminently qualified for the
position of such authority, the Local Government Board be
requested to confer on, or if necessary, to obtain for, the said
Managers power to act in that capacity.
(c) That the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
should also be empowered to use, for sanatorium purposes, the
'Southern Hospital,' recently erected by them at Carshalton, in
the County of Surrey."
That the Government be urged to provide "a sum of money
annually for the erection and maintenance of suitable sanatoria
for the treatment of early cases of consumption."
It was further resolved "That the President of the Local
Government Board be asked to receive a deputation from the
Conference in support of the above resolutions, and that he be
urged to take such steps as may be necessary to give effect to
them." A deputation was appointed.
During the year 1905, 19 of the 29 sanitary areas of London
adopted the practice of voluntary notification of phthisis (consumption).
Dr. Sykes, the Medical Officer of Health for the Borough of St. Pancras,
reported to the Council of that borough:—"the experience of St.
Pancras during the time that voluntary notification of phthisis has
been in force appears to coincide with that of nearly all the other local
authorities which have adopted the same course. This experience is
that voluntary notification is ideal in theory, but of little value in
practice, because the number of cases notified is very small, and the
notifications often take place when the patients are moribund."
RESPIRATORY DISEASES.
Under this heading are included Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Pleurisy
and other diseases of the respiratory organs. The number of deaths
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