[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John].

  • St. James and St. John (Clerkenwell, London, England). Parish Council.
Date:
1892
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    19 necessary branch of Medical Science has at last commanded wide spread sympathy, which it so well deserves, at the hands of the public at large, as well as those specially interested in the advance of Sanitary and Medical Science. The work of the Congress was arranged in ten sections, which carried on their discussions simul taneously: it was, therefore, impossible for your Committee to attend all the meetings, so they separated and endeavoured to attend those sections which most directly concerned their work as members of your Sanitary Committee; amongst the sections which they attended being those on Preventive Medicine; Bacteriology; The Relation of Diseases of Animals to those of Men; Infancy, Child hood, and School Life; Architecture in Relation to Hygiene; State Hygiene. And they heard papers read and discussed on the following subjects, namely:— Mode of Preventing the Spread of Epidemic Disease. Action of Disinfectants on Bacteria. Danger of consuming meat of Tuberculous Animals. Infectious Diseases of the Udder of the Cow in relation to Epidemic Diseases in Man. Education of Children, Hygiene of Schools, Effects of Posture, &c., Physical, Manual, and Technical Instruction, &c. Education of the Blind and Deaf Mutes. Diagnosis of each class in reference to Mental Capacity. Protection of Infant Life, Infantile Insurance, &c. Common Lodging Houses, Block Dwellings, Housing of the Working Classes, &c. Notification of Infectious Diseases. Sale of Poisons, &c. Sanitary Registration of Houses. Education, Position, and Duties of Medical Officers of Health, Sanitary Inspectors, Plumbers, and Midwives. It is evident that your Committee could but listen and learn at these discussions, as so many gentlemen learned in the Science were present from all parts of the globe taking part in them. Every Member of the Congress will shortly receive a copy of all its transactions, which will contain a great deal of valuable in formation on Sanitary matters, and your Committee will be pleased to lay it on the table or to lend it to anyone wishing to see it. Your Committee also attended and visited the Works of the Refuse Disposal Company at Chelsea, and beg to recommend that these works should be visited by a small joint Committee of the Works and Sanitary Committees, with a view of considering whether some of the methods there employed may not be adopted at the Vestry's Wharf.