622 PROCEEDINGS OP SECTION I, 



(b) VENTILATION IN BUILDINGS COMMITTEE, 

 (See Vol. XIII., p. LIX.). 



This Committee was, by request, discharged. 



Resolutions. 

 The following resolutions were passed: — 



1. That a committee be formed, as folic Ti?s, to report on 

 the disposal of excreta in small towns and rural 

 districts : — 



Dr. Purdy, Dr. Cleland, Dr. Bradley, Dr. Elking- 

 ton. Dr. Armstrong, Dr. Borthwick, Dr. Mary 

 Booth, Dr. Harvey Sutton, Dr. Ramsay 

 Smith, Dr. Champdeloup (Dunedin) ; Dr. Cle- 

 land to act as secretary. 



2. That the Governments of the Australian States be com- 



municated with with the recommendation, " That 

 medical officers of health should have special quali- 

 fications in public health and sanitary science, and 

 should be whole-time officers. Also, that only whole- 

 time sanitary inspectors, with the certificate of the 

 Royal Sanitary Institute, or equivalent certificate, 

 be appointed. That such inspectors, when appointed 

 by local authorities, be approved by and paid in whole 

 or in part by the central authority." 



3. That a separate chair or lectureship in Hygiene and 



Sanitary Science be established in each medical school. 



4. The General Council recommends the Governments of 



the States of Australia and of the Dominion of New 

 Zealand to hold a conference of the chief medical 

 and veterinary officers from each Government to 

 discuss and report on uniform measures for the con- 

 trol of tuberculosis in cattle and pigs. (This resolu- 

 tion is on the joint recommendation of section 3, and 

 of the sub-section Veterinary Science.) 



•5. That the following committee be appointed to consider the 

 question of the control of infections diseases in 

 schools: — Dr. Ramsay Smith, Dr. Roth, Dr. Mary 

 Booth, Dr. Eleanor Bourne. 



