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The programme of subjects or discussion was as follows
I. Administrative—Measures Immediately Practicable.
1. The teaching of infant feeding and nursing in schools.
2. The appointment of qualified women with special reference to the
hygiene and feeding of infants.
3. The supply of pure or specially modified milk for the feeding of
infants.
II. Educative—Problems for Discussion.
1. The influence of alcoholism on infantile mortality.
2. The relation of premature births to infantile mortality.
3. Infant Life Insurance.
III. Legislative—Measures requiring further Legislation.
1. Earlier registration or notification of births.
2. Employment of women before and after confinement.
3. The regulation of the placing of infants out to nurse, and the
amendment of the Infant Life Protection Act.
4. The sale and control of infant food stuffs.
5. The increase of the powers of Local Authorities in regard to milk
supply.
6. The extension of the Midwives Act to Scotland.
The resolutions of the conference were as follows :—
1. That the Education Department be urged to add instruction in
Elementary Hygiene with reference to the dietary and rearing of infants,
to their present scheme for systematically training girls in the senior
classes in the practice and principles of personal hygiene and the elements
of dietary.
2. That, in the opinion of this Conference, immediate legislation is
required enabling Sanitary Authorities to establish or support depots for
the supply of pure, or modified, or sterilized milk, and to defray any cost
out of the monies available for public health purposes.
3. That, in view of the information submitted, the Conference is of
opinion that all still births should be notified within 48 hours to the
Medical Officer of Health of the district in which they occur, and that no
burial should take place without a medical certificate.