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into which infants are received should be under the supervision
of the Local Sanitary Authority
(b) That the Infant Life Protection Act be amended to
remedy the abuses which are 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 packer should contain its analysis.
9. That the Dairies, Milkshops and Cowsheds 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 extneded 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 MidWives
Act, 1902, should be extended to Scotland and Ireland.
At the close of the Conference it was unanimously agreed:—
That the Conference resolve itself into a Committe to give
effect to the foregoing resolutions and with power to remit to an
Executive Committee to carry out the same.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The following diseases are classified by the Registrar-General
under this heading :—Small Pox, Scarlet Fever, Measles, Diphtheria,
Whooping Cough, "Fever" (Typhus, Enteric and Continued),
Diarrhœa, Plague. The zymotic diseases caused 318 deaths as comcompared
with 233, 211 and 2.57 for the three preceding years.
The death-rate from zymotic diseases was 2.75, and for the three
preceding years, 1.24, 2.32, 2.00; the average for the last five years
being 1.95.
The zymotic death-rate in England and Wales was 1.73, in the
76 great towns 2.24, and in the County of London 1.93.
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The number of notifications received during the year, under
the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, was
1,171, as compared with 991, 1129 and 1,184 for the three preceding
years. Table No. 3 shows the total number received during the
year, the number of cases in each district, also the number removed
to hospital from each district.
SMALL POX.
Only one case of this disease was notified during the year.
This was declared by the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Medical
Officer to be an error of diagnosis, and was returned home.