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On the 13th and 14th June, 1906, a National Conference on Infant
Mortality was held in London under the Presidency of the President
to the Local Government Board. This Conference did good service
in making more widely known the causes which lead to a high
Infant Mortality, and in indicating the lines along which hygienic
efforts should be directed with a view to the reduction of the present
excessively high Infant Mortality. The following subjects were
discussed at the Conference :—
The teaching in schools of elementary hygiene in reference to
the rearing of infants.
The appointment of qualified women with special reference to
the hygiene and feeding of infants.
The public supply of pure or specially prepared milk for the
feeding of infants.
Premature birth in relation to infantile mortality.
Ante-Natal causes of infantile mortality, including parental
alcoholism.
The teaching of the hygiene of the expectant and suckling mother.
Earlier notification or registration of births.
On the earlier registration or notification of births.
Infant life insurance.
Infantile mortality and life insurance.
Infant mortality and the employment of married women in
factory labour before and after confinement.
The regulation of the placing of infants out to nurse.
The amendment of the Infant Life Protection Act.
The chemistry of infant foods.
Increase of the powers of local authorities with regard to milk
supply.
The operation of the Midwives Act in England, with a view to
its extension to Scotland and Ireland, in relation to infantile
mortality.