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Infant Life Protection Act, 1897, and recommends
tbe Executive Committee to ask that the Bill be
specially amended to include the cas6 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.
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.
That all preparations offered or sold as foods or drugs for
infants should be certified by a Government Analyst
as non-injurious, and that each packet should contain
its analysis.
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."
The Eltham Branch Office.
60. The Eltham Sanitary Inspector's Office was moved
from 112 High Street. Messages are now left and the
Inspector calls daily to see visitors by appointment at the
Eltham Library. Arrangements have been made with Messrs.
B. W. Smith & Co., 144a, High Street (opposite the Library),
to supply disinfectants provided by the Council, for a weekly
rent of 2/-.