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Robinson, and the Medical Officer of Health, were appointed this.
Council's representatives. The following- resolutions were passed,,
viz. :—
(1) That this Conference expresses its appreciation of Parliamenthaving
passed the Notification of Births Act, 1907, and urges upon all
Local Authorities the importance of adopting the Act and appointingqualified
women to carry out its provisions.
(2) That, in order to combat the prevalent ignorance resulting in
wastage of infant life and injury to the health of many survivors, the
Conference urges upon the Board of Education, and upon Educational
Authorities generally, the importance of securing to all girls in every gradeof
school a satisfactory training in domestic and personal hygiene and the
duties of womanhood.
(3) That the Conference welcomes most gladly the Children's BillK
introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Herbert Samuel, M.P., for
the amendment of the Infant Life Protection Act, 1897, and recommends
the Executive Committee to ask that the Bill be specially amended to
include the case in which one child only is put out to nurse for reward ;
and that the Bill be further amended to empower Local Authorities to.
charge upon the rates the cost of carrying out the existing statutory provisions
for the prevention of cruelty to children.
(4) That the Conference, being convinced of the injury done to infant
life and health through infants being taken into public-houses, urges upon
Parliament the necessity of providing such legislation as will prevent this.
(5) That this Conference urges upon Boards of Guardians the advisability
of making greater use of their existing powers to adopt, under the
Poor Law Act, 1899, the children of incorrigible parents.
(6) That all preparations offered or sold as food or drugs for infants,
should be certified by a Government Analyst as non-injurious, and that
each packet should contain its analysis.
(7) That, in view of the unsatisfactory conditions under which milk is
produced and distributed, the Conference, being of opinion that immediate
amendment of the law is desirable, urges upon Parliament the necessity of
at once taking such steps as are necessary to effect this.
(8) That the Conference re-affirm the resolution of the former Conference,
that the Midwives Act, 1902, be extended to Scotland and Ireland.
(9) That the Conference continue as a Committee to give effect to the
foregoing resolutions, with power to remit to an Executive Committee to.
carry out the same.
89. A Conference was convened by the Paddington Borough
Conference, Council to discuss the question of taking measures
Pulmonary ....
Tuberculosis. to limit the spread of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
(Consumption), and Alderman Robinson, Councillor Blunt, and the