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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 foods or drugs
for infants should be certified by a Government
Analyst as non-injurious, and 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.