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the preparation and sale of sterilised and humanised milk for the
food of infants. These would be particularly useful in connection
with the work of Creches in some of our poorer boroughs.
IV.—The Conference requested the County Council to insert
a clause in their General Powers Bill for the Session of 1905
enabling them to make bye-laws for the Regulation of the structure
of premises where food is prepared for sale and also a clause to
enable them to make bye-laws for regulating the conduct of the
business carried on thereat.
V.—The Conference urged the desirability of powers to
enable Borough Councils to refuse the registration of premises
unfitted for the sale of milk.
VI.—The Conference also resolved that the Local Government
Board and the Board of Agriculture should be asked to take steps
to fix the limit as to the amount of boracic acid or other preservative
which may be mixed with food other than milk.
VII.—The Conference declared against any rental limit of
exemption in the case of Houses Let-in-Lodgings, and
VIII.—-They expressed the opinion that the business of a
Marine Store dealer and that of a Fried Fish-shop keeper should
be added to the list of offensive trades specified in Section 19.
IX.—The Conference also resolved that the time had come
when private Slaughter-houses should cease to exist in London,
and that all meat that is killed should be inspected.
Among other matters Resolutions were passed—
X.—In favour of a separate water supply for the tenements
on each floor of tenement houses, and
XI.—The inspection of sleeping accommodation in shops
where the assistants are boarded in.