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Council would co-operate with the Chapter in giving
effect to the provisions of the scheme.
The desirability of securing to the Borough the undoubted
benefits which would accrue was so obvious
that, upon the recommendation of the Public Health
Committee, the Council cordially accepted the proposals
and expressed its desire to co-operate with the Chapter.
So far nothing further has been heard of this
matter, but it is understood that it is intended to establish
the College in the Borough of Poplar.*
SCHOOLS FOE MOTHERS AND INFANT
CONSULTATIONS.
The administration of the grants made out of
moneys provided by Parliament to Schools for Mothers
and Infant Consultations was the subject of a Conference
(convened by the St. Pancras Borough Council) of representatives
of the Metropolitan Boroughs and Cities. At
this Conference a resolution was passed, expressing the
opinion that, as the work of such institutions must be
on similar lines to that of local sanitary authorities,
aiming at reduction of infantile mortality under the
provisions of the Notification of Births Act, 1907, rhe
proposed grants should be made by the Local Government
Board through the Local Sanitary Authorities.
The Council supported the action of the Conference,
and communicated with the local Members of Parliament
accordingly. Nothing has yet been heard as to whether
the Central Authorities will agree to the proposal.
A further proposal to which the Council agreed
was that put forward by the Poplar Borough Council,
* The Medical Officer of Health for Poplar states that the Principal of the
College informed his Council that it had been decided to fake Bromley Hall,
Brunswick Road, Poplar, for St. Katharine's College, for a term of three years.