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be asked to take steps to secure the efficient adminstration of
the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, 1885. and orders
amending the same, by making compulsory regulations.
(4) That application be made to the Local Goverment Board for an
Order to be made to extend the provisions of Section 69 of the
Public Health (London) Act to Pulmonary Tuberculosis in so
far as it relates to the milking of cows and to the sale and
distribution of milk.
(5) That the provision conferred by Section 7 (1) of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1901, viz.:—that in every room in any factory
or workshop sufficient means of ventilation shall be provided
and sufficient ventilation maintained, be rigidly enforced, and a
similar provision extended to all places where people are
assembled together for any lengthened period, with a view to
restricting the spread of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
(6) (a) That a Sanatorium is needed for the open-air treatment of
poor persons suffering from Pulmonary Consumption, in
the early stages of the disease, and should be provided by a
Central Authority acting for the Metropolis as a whole.
(b) That the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, by
reason of their practical experience in the management of
hospitals for infectious disease, being eminently qualified
for the position of such authority, the Local Government
Board be requested to confer on, or if necessary to obtain
for. the said Managers power to act in that capacity.
(c) That the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
should also be empowered to use for sanatorium purposes
the "Southern Hospital," recently erected by them at
Carshalton, in the County of Surrey.
(7) That this Conference appoint a deputation to wait upon the
Government to urge the desirability of their providing a sum of
money annually for the erection and maintenance of suitable
Sanitoria for the treatment of early cases of consumption.
The Southwark Borough Council, on a recommendation of its Public
Health Committee, adopted resolutions Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and G (c), and
no action was taken on resolutions Nos. G (a) and (6) and 7.