HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9789, 4 March 1910, Page 4

HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

[Per Phkss Association.] DUNEDIN, March 3. The Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children continued its conference to-day. The following resolutions were passed:—That something practical in the direction of the more general extension of the benefits of the'systematic care of infants inaugurated by the Society be attempted by offering to help and co-operate with the general hospital authorities in regard to the care of babies inside and outside such institutions; that the Government be approached with a view to rendering illegal the sale of patent goods sold as babies' \food which have not the percentage of sugar-fat and proteid (or flesh-forming material) marked on the outside; that those persons who are responsible for the placing and upbringing of children boarded out by the State be interested as much as is possible in the methods advocated by this Society; that persons having the care of boarded-out infants and young children in their homes be instructed as to the proper feeding of the same. A letter was received from Mrs Blair, president of the Young Women's Christian Association, asking the cooperation of the Society with a view to bringing into force the recent Aot of Parliament whereby women, may he ejected on Charitable Aid and School Boards. The conference declared itself as being quite in sympathy with the suggestions.