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people. (1.) The lessening of overcrowding in the tenement
houses. (2.) The better care of the children of the
poor. (3.) The multiplication of open spaces and
recreation grounds. (4.) The provisions of means of
innocent amusements. (5.) Cheap baths and washhouses.
(6.) Healthful dwellings at moderate rents, and inter alia
he touched upon the state of the public health in Dublin,
and the peculiarities of its death-rate. the water carriage of
filth, the prevalence of typhoid fever, and the housing of the
very poor.
After the President's address, His Excellency the LordLieutenant
opened in state the Health Exhibition at the
Royal University Buildings.
In the afternoon the Members of the Congress were
received at a garden party given by the Lord-Lieutenant
and the Countess Cadogan at the Viceregal Lodge, Phoenix
Park.
On Friday the 19th, in the Municipal and Parliamentary
Section, the Right Hon. Joseph M. Meade, L.L.D., President
of the Section, gave an interesting address on the
dwellings of the very poor. Among the speakers were T. W.
Russell, Esq., M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Local
Government Board in England, who strongly advised the
Corporation of Dublin to insist upon these houses, as far as
it was possible to do it, being put in habitable order.
Upon the termination of this meeting there was a
conference of Medical Officers of Health in the Examination
Hall, where Dr. T.J. Stafford, Medical Commissioner,
Local Government, Board, Ireland, presided. Dr. Stafford,