HEALTH CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 119, 21 May 1914, Page 7

HEALTH CONFERENCE-

WORKERS' HOMES IN NEW ZEALAND. BRITISH GOVERNMENT POLICY. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrieht.) LONDON, 20th May. At the Health Conference, the Hon. T. Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand) delivered an address on the subject "Workei's' Homes in New Zealand," detailing tho scope and purpose of recent legislation. Mr. "Herbert Samuel (President of the Local Government Board), outlining the British . 'Government's policy, said that systematic town-planning must be made obligatory upon municipal authorities. One hundred, and ninety-one local authorities in Great Britain had already submitted plans for housing reforms which would provide for fifteen million people when carried out. The conference included 170 delegates from overseas. "INFANCY AND HEALTH." PAPER BY SIR~CHARLES MACKELLAR. FEDERAL MATERNITY BENEFIT. (Received May 21, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, 20lh May. At the Health Conference, a paper by Sir Charles Mackellar, M.8., president of the State Children Board of New South Wales, on the subject of " Infancy and IJealth," analysed the New South Wales conditions and the preventive measures taken to preserve child life, and also referred to the Federal maternity benefit, which would ultimately prove valuable in reducing mortality. Sir Charles Mackellar commends the South Australian system for the supervision of illegitimate children. Dr. Frddshain (late Anglican Bishop of Northern Queensland), in introducing the paper, paid a tribute to Sir Charles Mackellar s work, and added that much beneficial legislation had been the outcome # of his efforts.