Address by the Vice-president at the opening of the Twentieth Session

Abstract

It has appeared to me most beneficial, as well as most simple, that your attention should be called on this occasion to the third branch of our objects, to wit, that of Public Health, a subject which although but of recent introduction, is now recognised as of vast importance to the individual as well as to the state, and in regard to which, the nature of my own pursuits, having had some practical connexion with many of the subjects which it includes, I may feel myself enabled to appreciate more accurately what the Society has accomplished within that field, and to indicate with more confidence the direction in which, as I believe, the labours of our members may be most usefully directed.