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(36). That the business of a fried fish shop keeper should be added
to the list of offensive businesses specified in Section 19 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891.
(37). That the London County Council be requested to make an
order to carry out these resolutions.
House Refuse
(38). That this Conference is of opinion that dust collection should
be carried out by the responsible officers of the sanitary authority without
the intervention of a contractor.
(39). That the daily removal of house refuse in suitable districts is
advisable.
(40). That improved dust carts should be adopted so covered as to
minimise annoyance caused to passers-by during collection of house refuse
especially in crowded thoroughfares.
(41). That the method of destruction of house refuse by fire should
be universally adopted in London.
Collection of fish offal and other offensive trade refuse.
(42). That the collection of fish offal and other offensive trade refuse,
should be undertaken by the sanitary authorities at the expense of the
producers.
SANITARY INSPECTION.
(43). That female inspectors should be employed in each borough.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Municipal Creches.
(44). That, having regard to the declining birth-rate and the large
infantile mortality rate of the Metropolis, it is desirable that the Metropolitan
Borough Councils should be empowered at their discretion to establish
creches for the reception of young children during the hours their
mothers are employed in work away from home, and to make reasonable
charges for the accommodation so provided and for the food of the children,
and that the London County Council be requested to insert in their General
Powers Bill for the session of 1905 a clause to confer such power upon the
said Borough Councils.
Smoke nuisances.
(45). That in the opinion of this Conference it is desirable that the
provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, as to nuisances arising
from the emission of smoke, should be applied to property in the
possession of the Crown.