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Report of the Chairman of the Public Health Committee and
the Chief Sanitary Inspector re Sanitary Inspectors' Conference
held at Llandudno, September 6th to the 13th, 1913.
To the Members of the Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,
We beg to report, in compliance with the request of the
Council, that we attended the Conference held under the auspices
of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association from September 6th to
13th inclusive, by the kind invitation of the Chairman and
Members of the Llandudno District Council.
The meetings were held at the Town Hall.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th.
The Conference commenced at 9 a.m. with a special meeting
of the Provident Association and Defence League, and other
auxiliary work of the Inspectors' Association.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th.
The Conference resumed at 10 a.m. at the Prince's Theatre,
the chair being occupied by William Williams, Esq., Chairman
of the Llandudno District Council, who welcomed the delegates in
a few well chosen words.
He was followed by Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D.,
LL.D., F.R.S., President of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association,
delivering his Presidential address. Sir James referred to the
need of highly trained Inspectors, urging the Association to make
their examination a thorough test of competency. Pundits are
not required for Sanitary Inspectors, nor men crammed with
theoretical science, but a certain amount of scientific knowledge
is necessary as a basis for practical sanitation.
Sir James devoted himself very largely in his address to the
dust problem and its effects upon the human race, and how the
hedge-rows had lost their refreshing greenery and had become
a seared, withered belt bounding the roads. The dust problem
assumed of lat^ years a wide and significant sanitary question—
modern civilisation is one vast grind of attrition, and in the process