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4. That notification of all births be given within 48 hours to
the Medical Officer of Health of the district in which they occur.
5. That in the opinion of this Conference, the question of the
insurance of infant lives under 12 months is one demanding serious
consideration, and, with a view to receiving reliable information, the
Government should be asked to appoint a departmental committee
of enquiry on the whole question.
6. (a) That the period of one month's abstention from factory
work away from home, now imposed on mothers, be extended to at
least three months, and, that, on their return to work, evidence must
be produced, satisfactory to the Local Authority, that proper provision
has been made for the care of the child.
(b) That no employer of labour shall permit a woman advanced
in pregnancy to engage in factory labour unless her ability therefore
has been certified to the satisfaction of the Local Authority.
7. (a) That, having regard to the ascertained fact that in centres
of industries where women are largely employed away from their
homes, an excessive number of deaths of infants takes place, and
that this is contributed to by the improper conditions existing at the
houses in which infants are placed out to nurse, it is necessary that
the persons by whom, and the places into which infants are received,
should be under supervision by the Local Sanitary Authority.
(b) That the Infant Life Protection Act be amended to remedy
abuses which are not at present provided against.
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 his 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
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