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5. That it is desirable that medical practitioners, midwives and
nurses, the staffs of hospitals and dispensaries, and the religious,
charitable and social organisations should co-operate with the
municipal authority in endeavouring to encourage breast-feeding
and to diminish the infantile mortality.
6. That it is desirable that any suggestions or arrangements
made by medical practitioners or by the medical charities for the
purpose of advising nursing mothers with a view to preventing
infantile mortality should be communicated to the municipal
authority in order that they may be made known through the
women inspectors.
7. That it is desirable that the information should be spread
broadcast that breast-feeding is the most economical, easy and safe
mode of feeding infants under nine months of age, with a view to
reducing the number of hand-fed sucklings to the smallest proportion
possible.
C.—Premature Weaning.
1. That it is undesirable that a suckling mother should be
separated from her infant, or the infant from the mother, except
for reasons of ill-health and under medical advice.
2. That it is desirable that a suckling mother if obliged to work at
a trade should work at home as an outworker, rather than in a workplace
away from home vjhich may necessitate weaning, and that to
facilitate the fetching and returning of work materials by outworkers,
rapid and cheap means of transit radiating from business centres are
necessary.
[This resolution was withdrawn, on account of the strong opposition of a
representative of the Trades Unionism, which Is seeking to abolish home work
altogether.]
3. That it is desirable that when a woman inspector has reason
to believe that a suckling mother is in a necessitous condition and
unprovided with sufficient food to enable her to maintain her own