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8 That all preparations offered or sold as food for infants should be
certified by a Government Analyst as non-injurious, and that each packet
should contain its analysis.
9. That the Dairies, Milkshops, and Cowsheds Order is defective,
and that any amendment should extend the definition of disease as applied
to animals, and should make the provision of Regulations by Local
Authorities compulsory. That the scope of the Regulations should be
extended to cover dirty milk, and should enable Local Authorities to
prohibit the sale of any milk which fails to comply with the conditions of
purity agreed upon.
10. That, in the opinion of this Conference, the Midwives Act, 1902,
should be extended to Scotland and Ireland.
At the close of the Conference it was unanimously agreed—
That the Conference resolve itself into a Committee to give effect
to the foregoing resolutions, and with power to remit to an
Executive Committee to carry out the same.
Arising out of the National Conference on Infantile Mortality, a
deputation of the Executive Committee waited, recently, on the Prime
Minister, and the President of the Local Government Board, to submit
the resolutions passed by the Conference, and generally to urge the
necessity of Government action in relation to the matter.
The Prime Minister's reply was sympathetic to the objects of the
Conference, as set out in the resolutions, and in the observations of the
speakers for the deputation—Bailie W. F. Anderson, of Glasgow, and
Alderman G. Broadbent, of Huddersfield, hon. joint secretaries, and
Mr. Evan Spicer, M.P., Chairman of the Conference, and of the London
County Council.
Mr. John Burns, M.P., President of the Conference, in welcoming
the deputation, said it was in the responsible position of president of a
department which had promised to assist them, and intended to adhere to
its word, that he responded to the invitation given by the Prime Minister
to deal with the practical and administrative points embodied in the
excellent speeches that had been made. Increasing attention, he observed,
was being given to the matter of instruction in hygiene, and kindred
matters, in the public elementary schools, and not only in the secondary
schools, but in the Universities also, and he would communicate the views
that had been expressed to the President of the Board of Education. As
to supply of sterilized milk by the sanitary authorities, incalculable