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THE QUEEN'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.
Hackney Road, Bethnal Green.
Co-operation in regard to Infantile Summer Diarrhoea.
On Wednesday, 11th March, 1914, at 8.30 p.m., a Conference
was held in the Board Room of the Hospital on the subject of
possible measures for the prevention or mitigation of the annual
visitation of Summer Diarrhoea amongst infants in the districts
surrounding the Institution.
The Earl of Shaftesbury, K.P., K.C.V.O. (President of the
Hospital), in the Chair.
The Conference was attended by members of various local
Municipal bodies, officials and members of Committees of a number
of Charities in the neighbourhood, and by three representatives of
the Local Government Board.
The following resolutions were adopted:-
1. Resolution proposed by the Senior Physician of the
Hospital, Dr. Porter Parkinson, seconded by Dr. King Warry
(Medical Officer of Health for Hackney), and supported by Mr. Pett
Ridge, Miss E. J. Charlesworth (Senior Health Visitor of the
Borough of Shoreditch), and Dr. Murray Leslie (Physician to the
Prince of Wales' General Hospital, Tottenham).
"That epidemic summer diarrhoea is a preventable
disease, dependent on a variety of conditions which can best
be dealt with by concerted action on the part of Public Health
Authorities and Voluntary Organisations ; and that Borough
Councils and Boards of Guardians be urged to seek the cooperation
of voluntary organisations for the purpose of
supplementing the work of the Borough Councils' Visitors,
with a view to arranging a complete and thoroughly efficient
system of home visiting in every case, in order that treatment
prescribed at Hospitals and other institutions, and by the
general practitioners, may be enforced as far as possible.