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provision and maintenance of Small-pox Hospitals. It was also
pointed out that while cases of infection spreading to the Staff in
Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and Typhoid Wards were frequent, no
cases occurred amongst the Staff in Small-pox Wards, because the
nurses and servants were well vaccinated
As a result of the Address upon "Preventive Medicine," and it
having been shewn how much India and some of the Colonies
were lacking in preventive work, it was decided to approach the
Secretary of State for India, and lay before him and Lord Curzon
the necessity for a largely increased sanitary service for India. In
the Address on " The Physical Education of our Children," it was
stated that the subject comprised not merely physical exercises
and training, but the conditions under which children lived, both
at school and at home. With regard to the Schools, Sir George
Kekewick said that the Board of Education had not done, and
was not now doing, its full duty in regard to seeing that suitable
buildings were provided, tenderness for the pockets of the owners
of schools meant cruelty to children. With regard to the
expenditure, although there may be no return in actual coin of the
realm, it would be a good outlay, inasmuch as the Hospitals and
Infirmaries would be less crowded, and it was resolved that, being
impressed with the necessity for the adoption of all proper steps
for the improvement of the physique of the nation, it was desirable
to impress upon public authorities, central and local, the urgent
importance of greater attention to the surroundings of the child,
whether in the home or at school.
Professor Hueppe gave some very striking figures, comparing
the spread of Tuberculosis in towns and country districts, and
also between industrial and agricultural areas; and yet, in