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heart in proportion to the time spent in the hot chamber.
This may be very serious to people with a weak heart, and it
is advisable that no delicate persons should use the bath, and
no one at all should stay in beyond a very limited time, except
under definite medical advice. Directions should be prepared
and posted in the bath, and the attention of bathers should be
specially drawn to them."
Conference on Infant mortality.
59. The second National Conference on Infant Mortality
was held at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 24th and
25th March, 1908. I attended as your representative. The
conference was largely occupied by the consideration of intemperance,
ignorance, and general neglect, of parents and
others having the care of children, as affecting the health of
infants. Several resolutions were passed, including the
following:—
That this Conference expresses its appreciation of Parliament
having passed the Notification of Births Act,
1907, and urges upon all Local Authorities the
importance of adopting the Act and appointing
qualified women to carry out its provisions.
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 grade of school a satisfactory training in
domestic and personal hygiene.
That the Conference welcomes most gladly the Children's
Bill, introduced into the House of Commons by Mr.
Herbert Samuel, M.P., for the amendment of the