SANITARY CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION, GLASGOW.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1619, 26 February 1884, Page 3

SANITARY CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION, GLASGOW.

British Mail, Nov. 1

The nnnual congress of the Sanitary Institute commenced in Glasgow on Tuesday, the 2nd, when the President, Professor G. M. Murphy, M.D., F.R.S., delivered an address, remarking that by tho Providentinl or natural law of tho association of the physical with the other qualities was worked on tho predominance of the best, In the great struggle of nations the best won. because goodness was the associate of strength and healthfulness. The maintainance of the sanitary condition of a people was a necessity to the maintenance of a high position among others, This became yearly more and more the case, as increasing civilization made us increasingly dependent upon sanitary regulations, and determined ■ more clearly what those regulations should be, It was thus that civilisation met and counteracted her own evils, The clustering of people in masses together ■promoted in various ways the liability to disease while growing intelligence and vapidly advancing science pointed out the means of preventing and arresting it, As prevention was better than • cure, so tho science which promoted the former was better than which attempted the latter. To ■ this the mombers of his profession wore fully alive, and, though their pecuniary gains were won by their efforts to euro disease, it was their constant and unselfish aim.to traco out and stamp out every source of disease; and it was their desire and practice to take an activo part in every movement which had for its object the improvement of the sanitary condition of our people. Well, would it be for our country when increased opportunity was given to the members of his profession, in Parliament and out of Parliament, of making a deeper impression on tho convictions o£ our country. One result that might bo anticipated from such an influence would ere long bo the institution of a •sanitary department inthe Legislature, distinct from the local Government Board and under the direction of a Minister of Sanitary Affairs. He could scarcely conceive anything more likely, than that to conduce to tho wellbeing of oiir people/and their success in . everything they undertook, whether it wero literary,'scientific, commercial, or :, mi\itwy, ( 'Siujh an office, extending its " administration to tW sanitary condilion of cattle; would -do much to pro-

mote agriculture, and to reduce the ' price and improve the quality of animal food, ft would find a further scope for action in considering and checking the diseases to which our Various food-producing plants became more liablo as they were more highly ; cultivated, and which, in many parts of the globe, were producing groat devastation and pecuniary loss, with accompanying distress and injury to the people, Under such a sanitary office the department of the RegistrarGeneral would properly be placed. The Ordnance and Geological Surveys and the meteorological Office should be in connection with it.

In connection with the Congress, an exhibition of sanitary appliances and materials has been opened in Burbank Drill-hall,