Health lectures for the people : third series, delivered in Edinburgh during the winter of 1882-83.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Health lectures for the people : third series, delivered in Edinburgh during the winter of 1882-83. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EDINBURGH HEALTH SOCIETY. INSTITUTED^1881. PRESIDENT. The Right Hon. the EARL OF ROSEBERY. This Society has been formed :— To promote, by all means in its power, attention to personal and domestic Cleanliness, to Comfort, Self-denial, Temperance, and the Laws of Health generally. The means to be employed for this end may, in the opinion of the Committee, be stated in the meantime as follows :— 1. The delivery of Popular Lectures bearing on the subjects in question by Physicians and other qualified persons. 2. The printing and distribution of these Lectures, and of small Leaflets. 3. Providing subjects of Interest for the Mind, and encourag- ing proper Amusements and Physical Exercises. 4. Giving assistance to the Constituted Authorities in the pro- motion of sanitaiy improvements by drawing their special attention to any particular insanitary condition. 5. Obtaining the assistance, so far as necessary, of any other Society in the City willing to co-operate in the work of this Society. 6. Arranging for the re-delivery of the Society's Lectures in villages in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and for the formation in such places of small local Committees in connection with the Society. Members Enrolled and Subscriptions Received by:— The Honorary Treasurer—Robert Cox, Esq., 34 Drum- sheugh Gardens. The Honorary Secretary—Walter A. Smith, Esq., Falcon Lodge, Murrayfield. Messrs Macniven & Wallace, Publishers, 132 Princes Street. Annual Subscription, ONE SHILLING, or more. Life Subscription, ONE GUINEA.