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will be the last five minutes of it, and such a Conference as 

 this, I believe, will have an enormous effect in promoting 

 the cause that we all have at heart the life and health and 

 welfare of infancy and of childhood. All those who have 

 been here and have heard especially the strange news that 

 we have heard from across the seas, from our own 

 Dominions and from the United States the examples that 

 they have shown to us and the teachings that they have 

 given to us will agree that they must have a most stimu- 

 lating and most invigorating effect upon everyone who is 

 interested in this cause. For myself, the Conference has 

 been most illuminating and most interesting and I hope the 

 effect of it will prove permanent. 



Dr. C. W. SALEEBY said he had to ask the meeting to 

 give a hearty vote of thanks to Their Majesties the King 

 and Queen (Patrons of the Conference), to Mr. John Burns, 

 the President; to Alderman Broadbent, Chairman of the 

 present gathering; to the various chairmen of the sessional 

 meetings, to the readers of papers, to the delegates from 

 the United States and from the Colonies, to the Duchess 

 of Marlborough for her kind reception of the Conference, 

 to the authorities of the various institutions which the dele- 

 gates had visited, to the gentlemen of the Press for the way 

 they had treated them in the newspapers, to the honorary 

 secretaries of the Conference, and last, but by no means 

 least, to the invaluable Secretary of the National Associa- 

 tion, Miss Halford. He would not ask for a seconder as 

 he was sure they would carry the resolution with acclama- 

 tion. (Applause.) 



The resolution was carried with enthusiasm. 



The CHAIRMAN : We have received an invitation fruin 

 Liverpool to hold a Conference there next year in Septem- 

 ber or October, and I hope that all who have enjoyed the 

 present Conference will reserve themselves for an equal 

 measure of enjoyment and profit at Liverpool in the year 

 1914. Till then we must say good-bye, hoping once more 

 to meet again. 



The Conference then terminated. 



