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Food and Drugs Act from an Inspector's Point of View;"
"Laying and Jointing of Sewer Pipes."
On Tuesday noon, a general meeting of the Congress
was held in the Examination Hall, Trinity College, the
President, Sir Charles Cameron, in the Chair. The
following resolutions were submitted from the Preventive
Medicine Section by Dr. Grimshaw and approved:—
(1.) That this congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health
hereby records its warm appreciation of the enlightened efforts of the
Right Hon. H. Chaplin, M.P., President of the Local Government Board
to protect the consumers of water supplied by the water companies, and
ventures to express the earnest hope that during the forthcoming session
the Government will introduce a public bill embodying the proposals
submitted by Mr. Chaplin to the House of Commons on June 23rd last.
(2.) From a consideration of the serious mortality from tubercular
disease and the known connection of tuberculosis with a bacillus which
can by the adoption of proper means be destroyed, this section is of
opinion that immediate steps should be taken to consider the question
"whether tuberculosis should be added to the list of notifiable disease,
and what other effective steps should be taken with a view of reducing
the mortality from this disease."
(3.) That this section hears with regret that the Notification Act
is not formally adopted in Ireland; and from a consideration of the
material benefits that result to the public health from the notification
of infectious diseases is unanimously of opinion that a representation
should be made to the Government with a view of steps being taken to
render the Act compulsory.
(4.) That the section regrets that no steps have been taken in the
Local Government Ireland Act 1898 to render the appointment of
county medical officers of health obligatory upon county councils, and
they feel that urgent representations should be made to the Government
pointing out the serious disadvantages to the public health which
naturally will result and the great disadvantages the people of Ireland
thereby incur.
(5.) That this section regrets to hear that infectious diseases are
in some localities treated in connection with the general hospitals, and
the members respectively submit that in the public health interest of
the community it is urgently necessary that such treatment should