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resolutions .
A.—Mothers.
1. That it is desirable that every encouragement should be
given to prospective mothers to seek advice as to the management
of their health, so that they may endow their offspring with good
constitutions and prepare themselves to suckle their infants when
born.
2. That it is desirable that all efforts should be exhausted upon
improving the health of suckling mothers before devoting attention
solely to their infants.
B.—Breast-feeding of Infants.
1. That it is desirable that births should be registered within
five days of their occurrence, as is required in the case of deaths by
the Births and Deaths Registration Acts, and be not delayed for
six weeks and longer as now by law permitted.
2. That it is desirable that the municipal authority should
obtain weekly returns of births from the Registrars.
3. That it is desirable that the municipal authority should send
to the addresses of all mothers, furnished in the weekly returns,
cards or leaflets of advice, laying greatest stress on the improvement
of ante-natal conditions, on the preparation for and
maintenance of breast-feeding of infants during the first nine
months of life, and strongly advising mothers not to wean their
infants prematurely except upon medical advice.
4. That it is desirable that women inspectors should bo
appointed with a view to the prevention of infantile mortality by
selecting from the weekly returns suitable cases amongst the poor
for inquiry, affording general information in the hygiene of nursing,
and directing the necessitous poor where to apply for such advice
and assistance as may be urgently required in order to maintain
breast-feeding.