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3. That it is desirable, in order to limit the spread of
Tuberculosis, that provision should be made for public
inspection and control at its several sources of the milk
supply of England, and to ask the Local Government
Board to take steps to secure efficient administration of
the Dairies, Cow-sheds, and Milkshops Order of 1885 and
Orders amending the same, by making compulsory
regulations.
4. That application be made to the Local Government
Board for an Order to be made to extend the provisions of
Section 69 of the Public Health (London) Act to Pulmonary
Tuberculosis, in so far as it relates to the milking
of cows and to the sale and distribution of milk.
5. That the provision conferred by Section 7 (1) of the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, namely, that in every
room in any factory or workshop sufficient means of
ventilation shall be provided and sufficient ventilation
maintained, be rigidly enforced, and a similar provision
extended to all places where people are assembled together
for any lengthened period, with a view to restricting the
spread of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
6.—(a) That a Sanatorium is needed for the open-air
treatment of poor persons suffering from Pulmonary Consumption,
in the early stages of the disease, and should be
provided by a Central Authority acting for the Metropolis
as a whole.
(b) That the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, are, by reason of their practical experience in the
management of hospitals for infectious disease, eminently
qualified for the position of such authority, and that the
Local Government Board be requested to confer on or, if
necessary, to obtain for, the said Managers power to act
in that capacity.
(c) That the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board should also be empowered to use, for sanitorium
purposes, the "Southern Hospital," recently erected by
them at Carshalton, in the County of Surrey.
7. That this Conference appoint a deputation to wait
upon the Government to urge the desirability of their providing
a sum of money annually for the erection and