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(11) That the local sanitary authority should have power to
require the removal and isolation of any inmate of a casual ward
who may reasonably be suspected of being liable to convey infectious
disease.
(12) That the local authority should have full power to require
the cleansing of the person and the disinfection of the clothes of
any person in a casual ward, whether infected or exposed to
infection.
LABOUR BUREAUX.
(13) (a) That the time has arrived when the Local Government
Board should promote legislation for the establishment of labour
bureaux in the areas of every county council and every county
borough council.
(b) That this Conference is also of opinion that it is desirable
that a national voluntary agency should be formed for assisting
bona-fide working men while travelling through the country in
search of work, and that such agency should be worked on the
same lines as the Inter-Cantonal Union of Switzerland for the
relief of poor travellers.
(14) That the unemployed travelling buna-fide in search of work,
not being habitual vagrants, should not be treated as vagrants,
but as far as possible be assisted to obtain employment.
LABOUR COLONIES.
(15) That the time has arrived when the Local Government
Board should promote legislation for the establishment of labour
colonies for the compulsory detention of habitual vagrants until
they have acquired power to work and self restraint.
(16) That this Conference approves and affirms the resolutions
passed by the executive council of the Association of Poor Law
Unions in England and Wales at their meeting in September, 1903,
as follows: —
(a) That boards of guardians should be grouped in suitable areas
to provide labour colonies for vagrants.