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many noxious kinds of dust are generated; special attention has
been devoted to industrial dust with beneficial results, and although
there has been of recent years an improvement in the mortality
rate in dust generating trades when compared with the mortality
rate of agriculturalists who live and work in practically a dustless
atmosphere that the difference is excessive to a startling degree.
Industrial dust is largely dealt with by the Factory Inspector,
but the municipal and domestic dust falls to the Sanitary Inspector
to supervise.
Sir James went fully into the question of road making to
combat the great dust trouble caused by the 220,000 motor
vehicles in Great Britain, and referred to the dangers of the road
by motor traffic. The President closed a very lengthy address
with an appeal to the Inspectors to discharge their duties with
earnestness of spirit and technical skill to fight gallantly against
ignorance and disease, display a kind heart and redress human
wrongs.
The Town Clerk of Llandudno (A. Connolly, Esq.), followed
Sir James Crichton-Browne by reading a paper entitled "Holiday
Months." The purport of the paper was to urge the necessity of
spreading the summer holidays over a longer season, by which
overcrowding of boarding houses, hotels, and trains would be considerably
obviated. It was agreed by the delegates that it would
be better in the interest of Public Health if this could be done,
and with this in view it was suggested that Education Authorities
should not all close their schools at one period, and that railway
companies should commence running excursion trains earlier in
the season.
At the close of this paper the delegates were entertained to
lunch by William Williams, Esq.
Subsequent to the luncheon the Isolation Hospital, Destructor,
Public Abattoir, and Workmens' Dwellings, were visited.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th.
The Conference was resumed at 9.30 a.m. Papers were
read by G. Lewis Travis, Esq., D.P.H., Medical Officer of Health,
Northern Division of Carnarvonshire, entitled "Health Resorts."
The reader dealt largely in his paper with the essentials a health