THE RESOLUTIONS 445 



JOINT MEETING OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND 

 MEDICAL SECTIONS. 



A Joint Meeting of the Administrative and Medical 

 Sections was held on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 5, 

 to conclude the official business of the Conference, and to 

 confirm resolutions submitted by the Executive Committee. 



Alderman BENJAMIN BROADBENT (Huddersfield), who pre- 

 sided, said : I want to make it as clear as possible what the 

 function of this closing meeting of the Conference really 

 is. The Executive Committee has very carefully watched 

 the proceedings of the Conference, and they have drafted 

 a number of resolutions which they think express with 

 practical unanimity the findings of the Conference upon the 

 various matters which have been brought before it. It will 

 be quite impossible to discuss these resolutions at this meet- 

 ing. They must be either adopted with sufficient unanimity 

 to make us feel that we have the support of the Conference, 

 or else they will have to be dropped. That is to say, if there 

 is not unanimity we should not have sufficient force behind us 

 to go to the various Government offices and say to the heads 

 of the departments : " These resolutions are the resolutions, 

 practically unanimous, of an English-speaking Confere; 

 and we present .them as such to you for you to carry out in 

 your executive capacity." There can be no discussion upon 

 the resolutions. They will be read out to you for your 

 consideration. If you agree with them with practical 

 unanimity they will go forward ; if you cannot agree to them 

 with practical unanimity, then we shall have to await another 

 conference before we can carry them any further. I think- 

 that makes the matter quite clear in regard to the position 

 here at this meeting. (Hear, hear.) The first resolution 

 is : " That this Conference urges that the Maternity Benefit 

 be made the property of the mother, both in practice and in 

 law." Is that resolution agreed to? (Cries of " Agreed.") 

 Are there any to the contrary ? That resolution is carried 

 with absolute unanimity. The second resolution is: " That 

 in view of the damage liable to be wrought in growing girls 

 by injudicious stress of education, especially during puberty 

 and adolescence, this Conference feels bound to deprtt 

 any form of education for girls which pays insufficient atten- 

 tion to establishing good bodily health and development and 

 complete fitness for maternity and the practical care of a 

 home." (Cries of " Agreed.") That resolution is carried 

 unanimously. 



Dr. PORTER (Marylebone") asked where the resolutions 

 would be sent to. 



