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III.—That the Conference welcomes most gladly the Children's Bill,
introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Herbert
Samuel, M.P., for the amendment of the Infant Life Protection
Act, 1897, and recommends the Executive Committee
to ask that the Bill be specially amended to include the case
in which one child only is put out to nurse for reward; and
that the Bill be further amended to empower Local Authorities
to charge upon the rates the cost of carrying out the existing
statutory provisions for the prevention of cruelty to children.
IV.—That the Conference, being convinced of the injury done to
infant life and health through infants being taken into public
houses, urges upon Parliament the necessity of providing
such legislation as will prevent this.
V.—That this Conference urges upon Boards of Guardians the
advisability of making greater use of their existing powers
to adopt, under the Poor Law Act, 1899, the children of
incorrigible parents.
VI.—That all preparations offered or sold as food or drugs for infants
should be certified by a Government Analyst as non-injuriousi
and that each packet should contain its analysis.
VII.—That, in view of the unsatisfactory conditions under which
milk is produced and distributed, the Conference, being of
opinion that immediate amendment of the law is desirable,
urges upon Parliament the necessity of at once taking such
steps as are necessary to effect this.
VIII.—That the Conference re-affirm the resolution of the former
Conference, that the Midwives Act, 1902, be extended to
Scotland and Ireland.
IX.—That the Conference continue as a Committee to give effect
to the foregoing Resolutions, with power to remit to an
Executive Committee to carry out the same.