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REPORT re CONGRESS OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE
OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
Public Health and Housing Department,
Royal Hill, Greenwich, S.E.
The Annual Congress of this Institute was opened at Folkestone
on Thursday, July 21st, and was attended by a large number
of delegates, representing most of the Municipal Authorities and
Scientific Institutions in the Kingdom.
The Earl of Radnor was installed as the President of the
Congress, and he delivered a very able Presidential Address.
Amongst the large number of papers read and discussed, the
papers referring to the milk supply of large communities, the
question of vaccination or isolation, the usefulness or otherwise of
infectious hospitals, and infantile mortality, appear to have special
import for us, whilst among the Lectures or Addresses given by
. celebrities, those of Professor W. J. Simpson and Dr. W. J. Tyson
upon "Preventive Work"; that by Sir George Kekewick, K.C.B.,
formerly Secretary of the Board of Education, on "Physical
Education of Children"; that by Surgeon-General Evatt, on the
"Personal Health of the Citizen in relation to National Efficiency";
and last, but not least, that of Doctor Ferdinald Hueppe, Professor
of Hygiene at the German University of Prague, upon the
fight against Tuberculosis, contained much useful information.
In reference to the milk question, papers were considered
bearing upon the collection and transit of milk from a bacteriological
point of view, the methods adopted by Railway Companies
for conveying milk, the bacterial contents of milk, the conditions
prevailing at the points of origin and distribution, veterinary