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tricts, on account of the amount of ignorance that exists as
to the proper feeding and rearing of infants. The Lady
Health Visitor should be educated, patient and refined in
manner, with an experience of general nursing, and the
rearing (and feeding) of infants and children, together with
a knowledge of hygiene and sanitary science. They might,
with advantage, teach elementary hygiene in the elementary
schools, so that the rising generation might be educated in
the importance of fresh air, cleanliness, pure food, and a
healthy mode of living, etc.
2.—Notification of Consumption.
Preventive measures to be adopted in connection with
Consumption (Tuberculosis) came up for serious discussion,
and it was agreed that the time had arrived for compulsory
notification of the disease on the lines of the Sheffield (Compulsory
Notification of Consumption) Act, together with
the provision of sanatorium-treatment for both (a) advanced,
and (b) early cases, to be followed by proper employment
afterwards; the need for the education of the people in the
infectious nature of consumption was insisted upon.
3.—The International Notification of Infectious Diseases.
It was agreed that there was need for an international
notification of infectious diseases, and the following resolution
was unanimously adopted : "That this Congress do
strongly represent to His Majesty's Government the desirability
of submitting to the next Imperial Conference proposals
for a system of Imperial Notification of Infectious
Disease."
4.—The Milk Supply and its Problems.
This subject was fully dealt with at a Joint Conference of
Veterinary Surgeons, Medical Officers of Health, and Sanitary
Inspectors—the various well-known facts being again
brought forward, the same stereotyped suggestions offered.
It was agreed that a pure milk supply was a desideratum,
but it was also emphasised that there were many difficulties
in securing such under present-day conditions. The moment
milk leaves the cow it enters upon its career of contamination.
The hands of the milkers, the vessels into which the
milk is milked, the cowsheds or dairies wherein the milk is
deposited or stored, are the first well-known sources of con-
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