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Credit: Sanitary review of the Session / by Edwin Chadwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SANITARY REVIEW OF THE SESSION. ^ At the closing meeting of the Session of the Association of Public Sanitaiy Ins]3ectors, held on Saturday, May 2nd, at 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, Mr. Edwin Chadwick, C.B., the President, gave the following address;—He said : Gentlemen, I am expected to give a review of sanitary jn-ogress since our last annual meeting. But my address must be chiefly of con- dolence for the continued delay of ])romised legislature for large measures of sanitation, delay by the intense preoccupa- tion with measures for constitutional reform. Few can know, what you must see going on silently and unheeded, that the delay in meeting preventable sickness, the loss of work, and the occurrence of preventable deaths in the metrojiolis (some twenty thousand annually) is far more serious than what could befall the country fi-om the most dire of wars in modern times. It is also a delay of the reduction of an excessive burthen of expense three times heavier than the poor rates. And now we are subjected to an almost exclusive pre- occupation of the public, made by an impending wai*. It may be of interest to advert to the position of our science, for the conservation of military force as serving to display its power for the protection of civil populations. In most wars hitherto, AvhUst the losses by the sword are as one, the losses by disease, for the most part preventable, have been as three. By the breakdown of the curative service, and by the feeble organisation of a preventive service, we lost our first army in the Crimea. By a distinct organisation of a preventive service, composed of sanitary officers of our first General Board of .Health, the second army Avas saA'ed and brought back in a better state of health and force than they had Aviien they left. At the late commencement of the Avar in Egypt there Avas, from default of organisation, another breakdown of the curative service, and of a sanitary and entirely iuade-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22313059_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
