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Wandsworth 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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opinion of the Conference the policy of making the County Council
schools mixed departments should be discontinued and separate
departments established for boys and girls, and asked the London
County Council to carry the resolution into effect. The Council
was informed that its communication on the subject had been
submitted to the Committee of the London County Council concerned.
University
Honours.
106. The Council addressed a communication to the Managers
of the Haselrigge Road and Aristotle Road
Schools, Clapham, congratulating Messrs. Harrison
and Woodward, ex-scholars of the Haselrigge Road School,
and the Managers and staff of that school, upon the success of
Messrs. Harrison and Woodward at the Mathematical Tripos at
the University of Cambridge. The Managers thanked the Council
for its congratulations and stated that they would communicate
the terms of the Council's letters to Messrs. Harrison and
Woodward.
Infantile
Mortality.
107. The Council was represented at the Conference held at
Westminster, on Infantile Mortality, by Alderman
Gay and Councillor Mark Robinson—Chairman and
Vice-Chairman respectively of the Public Health Committee.
The President of the Local Government Board attended the Conference
and gave an address. The Prime Minister afterwards
received a deputation on the subject.
Milk Snpply.
108. A Conference of the Public Health Committee and the
registered milk vendors in the Borough was convened
by the Council and held on July 17th, 1906,
to consider the following subjects, viz. :—
(1) What methods could be adopted to provide that the milk supply
to London might be properly protected from contamination at the time of
milking and during transit.
(2) Any representations that might be made to the proper authorities,
if necessary with the assistance of other local authorities in London, to
ensure the adoption of such methods.
(3) Any other methods or suggestions that might contribute to the
cleanly distribution of milk in London.
109. At the Conference, which was attended by the Members
of the Public Health Committee and by 54 registered dairymen