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necessary branch of Medical Science has at last commanded widespread
sympathy, which it so well deserves, at the hands of the
public at large, as well as those specially interested in the advance
of Sanitary and Medical Science. The work of the Congress was
arranged in ten sections, which carried on their discussions simultaneously:
it was, therefore, impossible for your Committee to
attend all the meetings, so they separated and endeavoured to attend
those sections which most directly concerned their work as members
of your Sanitary Committee; amongst the sections which they
attended being those on Preventive Medicine; Bacteriology; The
Relation of Diseases of Animals to those of Men; Infancy, Childhood,
and School Life; Architecture in Relation to Hygiene; State
Hygiene.
And they heard papers read and discussed on the following
subjects, namely:—
Mode of Preventing the Spread of Epidemic Disease.
Action of Disinfectants on Bacteria.
Danger of consuming meat of Tuberculous Animals.
Infectious Diseases of the Udder of the Cow in relation to
Epidemic Diseases in Man.
Education of Children, Hygiene of Schools, Effects of Posture,
&c., Physical, Manual, and Technical Instruction, &c.
Education of the Blind and Deaf Mutes.
Diagnosis of each class in reference to Mental Capacity.
Protection of Infant Life, Infantile Insurance, &c.
Common Lodging Houses, Block Dwellings, Housing of the
Working Classes, &c.
Notification of Infectious Diseases.
Sale of Poisons, &c.
Sanitary Registration of Houses.
Education, Position, and Duties of Medical Officers of Health,
Sanitary Inspectors, Plumbers, and Midwives.
It is evident that your Committee could but listen and learn at
these discussions, as so many gentlemen learned in the Science were
present from all parts of the globe taking part in them.
Every Member of the Congress will shortly receive a copy of all
its transactions, which will contain a great deal of valuable information
on Sanitary matters, and your Committee will be pleased
to lay it on the table or to lend it to anyone wishing to see it.
Your Committee also attended and visited the Works of the
Refuse Disposal Company at Chelsea, and beg to recommend that
these works should be visited by a small joint Committee of the
Works and Sanitary Committees, with a view of considering whether
some of the methods there employed may not be adopted at the
Vestry's Wharf.