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"In view of the large percentage of stillbirths and infant deaths
directly attributable to venereal diseases, and considering that infant
blindness and other congenital defects are in many cases due to the
same cause, the English Speaking Conference on Infantile Mortality
urges the respecive Governments of the countries therein represented
each to appoint a Commission to inquire into the causes of prevalence,
the provision of treatment, and the possibility of the prevention of these
diseases."
"That the attention of the Board of Education be drawn to the
extreme desirability of making the grant earned by ' recognised ' Infant
Welfare Centres depend in future on their efficiency on the number of
registered attendances of the mothers at consultations, classes and
talks; and on the number of homes visits paid under adequate supervision."
Dr. Chalmers read the following resolution :—
" That it be referred to the Executive Committee to take whatever
steps are necessary in order to secure that no microscopical examination
of milk for tubercle bacilli, provided it is negative, be accepted as final
without confirmation by inoculation tests." Carried.
The Conference also passed a resolution urging that the Milk Bill
should be presented to Parliament, and passed with as little delay as
possible.
The Chairman ruled the following resolution out of order, because
it was quite germane to the proceedings : " That in the opinion of this
conference it is of vital importance to the nation that scientific and
medical research be instituted with regard to the cause and prevention
of measles, and as to the possibility of rendering children immune from
such disease."
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Notifications ; The Public Health (Ophthalmia Neonatorum)
Regulations, 1914.
Notifications of Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Forty.seven cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum were notified during
the year, see Tables XXV..XXVIII., 24 Poplar, 17 Bromley and 6 Bow.
Upon receipt of a notification the case is immediately visited by one
of the Health Visitors.