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take place in separate and distinct institutions under proper public
control.
(6.) That this section is of opinion that the union hospitals in
Ireland should be dissociated from the workhouses and that patients
admitted to them for treatment only should not be compelled to do
anything which would cause them to be classed as paupers.
From section B the following resolutions were
submitted:—
(1.) That legislation is urgently needed for securing the supervision
of all public water supplies in order to insure the provision of
pure and wholesome water, and further, that it is desirable that
sanitary authorities should be empowered to make bye-laws with
reference to the construction and protection of private wells, and to
enable them to close all wells yielding a water liable to dangerous
pollution.
(2.) That in the opinion of the section of Chemistry and Meteorology
of the Congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health the
public convenience calls for the adoption of West European time instead
of Dublin mean time as the legal standard time for Ireland. The
section would urge that as Greenwich time has long since been adopted
in the Postal Department, the principle should be extended, and that
the necessary amendment should be made in the Statutes (Definition of
Time) Act 1890, which provides that whenever any expression of time
occurs in any Act of Parliament or other legal instrument, it shall be
held in Great Britain to be Greenwich meantime, and in the case of
Ireland, Dublin meantime.
(3.) That this section approves the undermentioned recommendations
with reference to legislation as regards poisons, and requests
that a copy be forwarded to the Chief Secretary and the Lord
Chancellor of England.
(a) That " wholesale dealing " should be defined as:—
1.—A sale to a person qualified to sell by retail.
2.—A sale to a manufacturer for use in the process of
his business.
3.—A sale to public bodies who usually buy by contract.
(b) That the principle of qualification of the proprietor should
not be departed from.
(c) That poisonous substances recognised to be poison should be
added to the poison schedule.