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labour unless her ability therefor has been certified to the
satisfaction of the local authority.
7. (a) That having regard to the ascertained fact that
in centres of industries where women are largely employed
away from their homes an excessive number of deaths of
infants takes place, and that this is contributed to by the
improper conditions existing at the houses in which infants
are placed out to nurse, it is necessary that the persons
by whom, and the places into which infants are
received, should be under supervision by the local
sanitary authority. (b) That the Infant Life Protection
Act be amended to remedy abuses which arc not at present
provided against.
8. That all preparations offered or sold as food for
infants should be certified by a Government Analyst as
non-injurious, and that each packet should contain its
analysis.
9. That the dairies, milkshops, and cowsheds order is
defective, and that any amendment should extend the
definition of diseases as applied to animals and should
make the provision of regulation by local authorities compulsory.
That the scope of the regulations should be extended
to cover dirty milk, and should enable the local
authorities to prohibit the sale of anv milk which fails to
comply with the conditions of puritv agreed upon.
10. That in the opinion of this Conference the Midwives
Act, 1902, should be extended to Scotland and
Ireland.
At the close of the Conference it was unanimously
agreed: "That this Conference resolve itself into Committee
to give effect to the foregoing resolutions, and with power to
remit to an Executive Committee to carry out the same."