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(8) That all preparations offered or sold as food for infants
should be certified by a Government analyst as noninjurious,
and that each packet should contain its
analysis.
(9) That the Dairy, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order is defective,
and that any amendment should extend the definition
of disease as applied to animals, and should make
the provision of regulations by local authorities compulsory.
That the scope of the regulations should be
extended to cover dirty milk, and should enable local
authorities to prohibit the sale of any milk which fails
to comply with the conditions of purity agreed upon.
(10) That in the opinion of this Conference the appointment of
qualified women specially trained in the hygiene of
infancy is necessary as an adjunct to public health
work.
(11) That in the opinion of this Conference the Midwives Act,
1902, should be extended to Scotland and Ireland.
With a view to endeavouring to bring about some beneficial
practical result on the lines of the foregoing resolutions, the Executive
Committee of the Conference arranged for a Deputation to wait upon
the Prime Minister, who, together with the President of the Local
Government Board, sympathetically received the Deputation on the
22nd November, 1906.
Physical Deterioration and Alcoholism. —This question
is closely associated with that of infant mortality, and in view of the
evidence given before the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical
Deterioration, your Council, in common with the Corporations of many
other towns, issued posters, of which the following is a copy, for the
purpose of warning the indifferent of the dangers attending the abuse
of stimulants.