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on all Local Authorities to provide adequate and suitable Hospital Accommodation
for Infectious Diseases, including powers for compulsorily acquiring
land.
"That, in the opinion of this Congress, the Local Government Board is not
justified in affording owners and occupiers of land in the vicinity of a site
proposed to be purchased by a Public Authority for infectious hospital
purposes, any protection beyond that given them by tbe action of the general
law.
That Municipal Authorities should be empowered to establish and maintain
Winter Gardens, with wholesome entertainments for the people.
That the Preventive Medicine Section of the Congress of the British Institute
of Public Health, now sitting in London, would suggest to the Medical Officer
of the Local Government Board the advantage that would accrue to the
Public Health if his Department would collect and publish the salient points
bearing upon the proof of the preventibility of Consumption and Tubercular
diseases generally (i.e.—a summary of our present knowledge of the causation
of these diseases), together with practical suggestions as to the details of
precautionary measures to be observed by individuals, or to be adopted by
public bodies; and if such facts and recommendations were disseminated as
widely as possible.
That, in the opinion of this joint Conference of the Chemical and Municipal
and Parliamentary Sections of the British Institute of Public Health, amendment
of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act is required in the following, among
other, directions:—
"(1).—The modification of the Warranty Defence in such a way as to
ensure the punishment of the real offender.
"(2).—The appointment of some adequate official scientific authority
for the fixing of milk and other standards, and the investigation of
analytical methods.