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 CONFERENCES

Held in connection with the International Health Exhibition.

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Aspect of Internal Fittings and Decoration The Hygienic value of Colour c'-m...'" 7 :

^^tage. Management, and Distribution of Water for Domestic Purposes.”

SOCIAL SCIENCE a Conor a mTonT cv „■,. — H.

1 Collection,

ASSOCIATION • — Sir Richard Temple, Bart G C S I C 1 E

President; J. L. Clifford-Smith, Secretary. I, Adam Street, Adclphi, W.C. Contents • Wh£t u condmons are essential for a Healthy Dwelling, wheiher in an urban or in a rural locality, and how c far is it desirable that they should be rendered compulsory by legislation I*’—" What, if any, restric- in°w ln v h b lnterc * tSj ° f health should be enforced in connection with the employment of girls and wooes “ h a* f, n T d .f r T* »* “ desirable that notification of Infectious Disease should “

A Artier i 1 le 5 the duties of Medical Officers of Health?”

CHAMBER OF AGRIOtrLTURE.— Henry Chaplin, M.P., President; Major ^ Tk®?* “ ry ‘ Arundel Street Strand, W.C. Contents:-" The Sources of our Meat - Supply — 1 he Causes which have Checked the Development of our Home Production of Meat - Home-grown Meat Supply and the Increased Production of Home-grown Meat”-“The Means of ^ u Eply of M eat to largely-populated Centres.”

1N ? T r' TUTE u 9? CHEMISTRY. -Professor William Odling, M.A., F.R.S., President; Charles a A 0V, eS ’. „ ■ 7 Secretary. Somerset House Terrace, W.C. Contents:—" Food Adulteration

and Analysis, with Appendix.

BRITISH BEE-KEEPER’S ASSOCIATION. — The Baroness Burdett-Coutts, President;?' J V : H L R - Pce|. M.A., Secretary. Royal Horticultural Gardens, S.W. Contents:—' “ Foul Brood I and its Prevention — “ Adulteration of Honey.”

OFFICERS OF HEALTH. 1 Chairman o( the Conference H ANT TA.R Y INSTITUT E OF &REAT BRITAIN. | Joint Committee; T. Orme

PABKES MUSEUM OF HYGIENE. J Dudfield, M.D.

Contents : Domestic Sanitary Arrangements of the Metropolitan Poor— The Improvement of the : banitary Arrangements of Metropolitan Houses — Domestic Sanitation in Rural Districts — Sanitary f Houses for the Working Classes in Urban Districts— Industrial Diseases— Spread of Infectious Diseases — (a) 1 h rough the Agency of Milk — (£) Through other agencies — Notification of Infectious Diseases— -

(<j) Its Importance and its Difficulties— [ 6 ) r lhe Right and the Duty of the State to enforce it— Disposal of the Dead — Cremation.

JOHN’S AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION. — St. John’s Gate, Clerkenwell. — Sir Edmund 1 A. H. Lechmere, M.P., Chairman, i Contents : — On the Carriage and Removal of the Sick and

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Injured — On the Ambulance Organisation of the Metropolis during Epidemics.

SOCIETY OF ARTS.— John Street, Adelphi.-Sir Frederick Abel, C.B., F.R.S., Chairman?! H. 1 rueman Wood, M.A., Secretary. Contents : — Water Supply and Distribution. Sources OF Supply.— “ On the Area of Chalk as a Source of Water Supply ’ — “ Water Supply in its influence on the Distribution of the Population” — t- On a possible Increase of Underground Water Supply”—


 * Softening

Sewage Contamin ition by the Use of the Microscope, and the Purifying Action of Minute Animals and Plants ’ — “ I he Chemistry of Potable Water” — “ On the Purification of Water on a large Scale,” Methods of Distribution; Modes of Giving Pressure; House Fittings; Discovery and Prevention of Waste, &c„ &c— “ Water Distribution and Dual Supply Modes of Di»- - tribution, with some remarks on Dual Supply” — “Water Supply for Fire Extinction” — ‘Mode of Distribution of Water.”

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON AND NATIONAL HEALTH SOCIETY.-

Sir Joseph Fayrer, M.D., F.R.S., Chairman : A. Pearce Gould, Secretary. Address: n, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W. Contents : — Dietaries — Duties of School Managers in relation to Epi- demics — Preventive Treatment of Epidemics in Publicand High Schools — Grammar and High Schools i* their construction and arrangement — School Dormitories — Elfects of Posture in Schools — Gymnastics in Schools — Gymnastics Feriencolunien — The Health and Physical Development of Idiots as compared J with mentally sound children.

ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY.-R. H. Scott, President; William Marriott, Assistant Secretary. Address : 30, Great George Street, S.W. Contents : — Some relations of Meteo- rological Phenomena to Health — English Climatological Stations — Cumulative Temperatures, Ac-, »s shown on the Diagrams exhibited by the Meteorological Office in the International Health Exhibition — Some occasional Winds and their Influence on Health— The Equinoctial Gales — Do they occur in the British Isles?

ASSOCIATION FOR THE ORAL INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF AND j|

DUMB. — The Earl Granville, K.G., President; A. H. Moses, Esq., Hon. Secretary. Address: 11, Fitzroy Square, W. Contents. — On the Oral Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. — On the Education of Incurably Deaf Children.

SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS AND ELECTRICIANS. - ELECTRIC LIGHTING— MUNICIPAL AND DOMESTIC.-Profc sor W. Grylls

Adams, F.R.S., Prescient ; F. H. v\ ebb, Secretary. Address: 4, The Sanctuary, Westminster, S.W* j Contents : Electric Lighting in relation to Health— Physiological bearing of Electricity in relation to Health.

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.— N. Chevcrs, M.D., C.I.E., President.

Address: University College, Gower Street, W.C. Contents : — Health in India — Change of type® Epidemic Disease — Leprosy in India, and the best means of preventing its increase.

LONDON : WILLIAM CLOWES & SONS, Limitkd, INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EXHIBITION, & 13, CHARING CROSS.