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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![Report on the History and Organisation of the Congress. BY The Hoxorary Secretaries. [In this Eeport Dr. Corfielcl is mainly responsible for the early History of the Congress and for its Foreign Relations, and Dr. Poore for the rest.] 4-—-4- In submitting the following report, it is desirable to describe briefly the origin of the London meeting of the Congress. In 1884, Dr. Corfield, at the request of the Organising Committee of the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, held at the Hague, delivered one of the public addresses before that Congress. During the meeting of that Congress, it was frequentlj^ asked why the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography had never been invited to hold a meeting in London. The obvious reply Avas that there was in London no one hygienic body in a position to invite the Congress, and that the Covernment could not be expected to initiate such a movement. It was then decided that the next meeting of the Congress should be held at Vienna in 1886. This meeting Avas subsequently po.stponed until 1887, when the Sanitary Institute, the Parkes Museum, the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and the Hatioral Health Society sent invitations to the Congress by their delegates (Sir D. Galton, Professor Corfield, and Mr. Shirley Murphy), in consequence of Avhich it Avas decided that the next meeting should be held in London in 1891. Mr. Shirley Murphy and Dr. Corfield Avere, during the Vienna Congress, elected the English representatives of Hygiene on the Permanent International Committee of the Congress, and Sir Douglas Galton and Dr. William Ogle Avere elected the English representatiA^es of Demography on that Committee. In December 1888, the formation of the General Committee Avas begun by sending out a circular signed by the English members of the Vienna Congress, auz. : Sir Spencer Wells, Professor (noAv Sir George) Humphry, Professor E. Frankland, Dr. Mapother, Dr. Charles Cameron, M.P., Sir Douglas Galton, Mr. Shirley Murphy, and Dr. Corfield. The General Committee held its first meeting on June 18th, 1889? under the presidency of Sir Spencer Wells, Bart. At this meeting the folloAving Avere appointed to act as an Organising Committee, Avith power to add to their number :— Sir Douglas Galton, K.C.B., Professor Frankland, P.R.S., Mr. Ernest Hart, Professor Hayter LeAvis, Dr. E. D. Mapother, Dr. F. S. Mouat, Dr. Thorne Thorne, Dr. Corfield, and Mr. Shirley Murphy. Sir Douglas Galton was appointed Chairman, and Dr. Corfield and Mr. Shirley Murphy Honorary Secretaries of the Organising Committee. The first meeting of the Organising Committee Avas held on July 29th, 1889.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28045518_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
