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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4901, 6 December 1876, Page 2

We are in receipt of the first annual report of the Australian Health Society, read at the general meeting held .in the Town Hall, Melbourne, on the 19th September of the present year. The society was inaugurated at a public meeting held in the Town Hall, Melbourne, on 30th August, 1876. Two thousand copies of the circular announcing the objects of the society have been distributed. It nosy numbers 195 members,' the ' subscriptions amounting in all to £7B. The progress of this institution will be watched with interest. We assume at once that it will progress, because theye is little doubt • of its receiving support, as the importance of the work contemplated by the promoters cannot fail to be generally acknowledged. : The objects of the society are briefly as follow:—1. To create ah* educated public opinion with regard to sanitary matters in general, by the aid of the platform, the Press, and other suitable means. ,2. To induce and assist people by personal influence, example, and encouragement, to live in accordance with recognised laws, whereby health is maintained, and disease prevented, 3. To seek the removal of all noxious influences deleterious to the .public health, and to influence and facilitate legislation in that

direction. Prom the report,, it .would appear I that; the society has made considerable head- 1 way since its inauguration, and -promises to be a greafi public benefit, ' Xhero cau be no more important consideration than the maintenance *of health and.prc vent ion of disease, and any ! society! which has this; for its. object deserves : th'o thi-Rebple'among -whom it i‘i established/ Admitting it to be properly managed, its influence must necessarily be very, largely, felt in iv beneficial direction. ' ' '