Miscellanea. (Special meetings, reports, official lists, etc.).
- International Congress of Hygiene and Demography
- Date:
- 1893
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Credit: Miscellanea. (Special meetings, reports, official lists, etc.). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![she had been well repaid by the important subjects discussed in the course of its proceedings, and by the valuable and exhaustive papers read by Surgeon-General Sir William Moore and others before it. He ventured to bear personal testimony to the earnest desire of the Secretary of State for India (Viscount Cross) and of the Viceroy of India (Marquis of Lansdowne) to do their utmost to further the objects of the Congress, and he felt sure that the meeting would be unanimous in agreeing that they, and the able officials associated with them, were entitled to an expression of their cordial thanks. It had been very gratifying to all who were interested in India to see how generously the native princes and chiefs, whose names were mentioned in the resolution now before the meeting, had come forward in aid of its objects, and how efficiently the European and native delegates appointed to represent that great dependency of the Crown had carried mit their mission. He could not conclude without specially alluding to the services of their honorary secretary, Mr. Samuel Digby, to whose unwearied efforts were due the success of their proceedings in the Indian section of the Congress, and the comparative ease with which the special Indian Committee, of which he (Sir Owen Burne) had been the humble chairman, had entered on its duties and completed its work. Surgeon-General Cornish, in .seconding the resolution, expressed the opinion that all departments of the administration of the Indian Empire, from the Viceroy’s downwards, had Avorked cordially towaixls making the Congress meeting a success. The great feudatory princes and natives of Avealth and influence had most generously responded to the appeal for pecuniary help towards the expenses of the Congress. He might mention that as regards the sum received for defraying the expenses of the Congress, the Indian contributions amounted to about one-fifth of the whole. The interest manifested by the Indian princes seemed to point to the hopeful progress of sanitary work in those parts of the Indian Empire not directl]^ under the administration of the Government of India, Avhile the officials of the Indian Government were all deeply impressed Avith the necessity of attention to sanitary matters in their scA’eral spheres of duty. The resolution was carried unanimously. Dr. G. Buchanan (London) moA'ed the folloAving resolution:— “ This Congress records its grateful sense of the support AAffiich it has recewed from foreign GoA-ernments, and most especially the Congress thanks the Danish Government for its generous and important contribution to the literature of demography.” Denmark had presented to the Congress, by its chief delegate. Dr. Julius Lehmann of Copenhagen, for distribution among its members, 1,700 copies of a large work (474 pp., royal octavo), entitled “ Denmarh, its Medical Organisation, Hygiene, and Demography.” Dr. Louis Saaibon (Naples) seconded the resolution, and said:— I am happy to second Dr. Buchanan’s vote of thanks to foreign Govern- ments, and most especially to the Danish Government, for its splendid publication so lavishly dispensed to the members of the Congress.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28045518_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
