Tuberculosis (international congress) : copy of report of Sir Herbert Maxwell and P.H. Pye-Smith ... / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

  • Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, 1845-1937.
Date:
1899
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    IIEPOIM' of the Delegate.s of Her Majesty’s Govern- ment on the International Congress on Tnl)erciilosis, held at Berlin from the *24th to the 27th May, 1899. London, June, 1899. My Lord Duke. Wc have the honour to report that, in accordance with Your Grace’s instructions, we attended the International Congress on Tuberculosis assembled at Berlin on 24th to 27th ultimo. The Congress which was opened by His Serene Highness the Herzog von Ratibor in presence of Her Majesty the German Empress, consisted of about one hundred and eighty delegates, appointed by and representing the Governments of different states and Universities, and other public bodies. Beside these, it was attended by a very large number of individuals Avho were admitted as members on paying for their entrance. The proceedings took place in the Chamber of the Reichstag, and consisted of the reading of papers by a number of persons of different nationalities, the majority being Germans, bearing on the nature of tuberculosis, in men and animals, its diagnosis, pathology, preventive and curative treatment. Nothing in the nature of a general discussion in public took place, but no doubt the proceedings Avhen printed will form a valuable corpufi of scientific opinion, marking the degree of knowledge attained in regard to tuberculosis and the most hopeful means of combating it. We believe, also, that much good will result from the Congress by the prominence given thereby to the subject, and by a general diffusion of information as to the nature of the disease and the precautions Avhich should be taken against it. HereAvith Ave enclose the Tageblatt, or Journal of the Congress —five numbers—and submit, at the same time, a memorandum by Dr. Pye-Smith on the medical aspect of the results of the Congress. On Friday, 2Gth May, Ave had the honour of being receiA’ed by the Imperial Chancellor, Fflrst zu Hohenlohe SchillmgsfiU’.st, Avho showed much sympathy Avith the objects of the Congress. His Majesty the German Emperor Avas ])leased to command the presence of some of the delegates at Potsdam on Sunday, 28th May. Dr. Pye-Smith had loft Berlin on Saturday afternoon, before his Imperial Majesty’s commands arrived, but Sir Herbert MaxAVcll, Avith about fifty other delegates, had the honour of an audience, Both his Majesty the Emperor and her Majesty the Fmjn’oss evinced a keen interest in the proceedings of the Congress, and all the delegates present Averc very sensible of the graciousness of their reception. We cannot refrain from expressing our sense of the great kind- ness and consideration shoAvn to us by His Excellency Sir Frank Lascelles and the members of the British Embassy, and also by 2457. wt. 6610. 1500—7/99. NVy. & S.