About this book
My library
Raamatud teenuses Google Play
Opening Address. The Right Hon. G. Shaw-Lefevre, M.P.
Address on Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law. JOHN WESTLAKE,
Address on Education. OSCAR BROWNING, M.A.
Address on Health. NORMAN CHEVERS, C.I.E., M.D., F.R.C.S. ENG.
Address on Economy and Trade. Viscount LYMINGTON, M.P.
Address on Art, The Right Hon. A. J. B. BERESFORD-Hope, M.P.
xxxiii
45
SELECT PAPERS, NOTICES OF PAPERS,
DISCUSSIONS, &c.
I-JURISPRUDENCE
AND THE AMENDMENT
OF THE LAW.
INTERNATIONAL AND MUNICIPAL LAW SECTIONS.
Local Government.
What amendments are required in the system of local government in
England, with regard to areas, functions, and representative or other
authorities? ARTHUR F. LEACH. M. D. CHALMERS
99,
114
120
Is it desirable to introduce into the United Kingdom an official record of
rights and interests in land such as exists in the Australasian colonies?
R. DENNY URLIN. J. H. GREGSON.
What reforms are desirable in the law relating to the arrest and continued
detention of alleged lunatics and to the control of their property?
A. E. MILLER, Q.C., LL.D. MERYON WHITE, M.A.
Discussion.
Miscellaneous.
The Death Duties. ARTHUR F. LEACH
Imperial Federation. FRANCIS P. LABILLIERE
The unclaimed funds of suitors in the English Chancery. WILLIAM
GRIFFITH
A proposal for the confirmation and extension of local government by the
grants of special commissions prescribed by the Judicature Act, 1873.
PAGR
197
200
206
208
Local Courts of Justice.
Sir RICHARD HARINGTON. Bart.
210
The position of the mother ip the family. Dr. FRANCES ELIZABETH
Can our prisons be rendered, in a considerable degree, self-supporting, and,
if so, by what means, without a sacrifice of their discipline and deter-
rent effect? GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE. Alderman HENRY MANTON,
215
Should schools of discipline be established for the correction of juvenile
offenders and their detention for short periods?
A. HERBERT SAFFORD. LORD NORTON
What means would reduce the traffic in stolen property? J. FARNDALE.
J. A. TELFER
The Laws for Enforcing School Attendance.
The laws for enforcing school attendance as carried into effect under the
London School Board, together with certain remedies recommended in
the report of the Royal Commission on Reformatory and Industrial
Schools. Miss DAVENPORT-HILL
A recent epidemic of attempts at suicide. The Rev. J. W. HORSLEY, M.A.
Boarding-out, an aid in the Repression of Crime. The Rev. E M.
HOLMES, B.A., LL.D..
299
300
Remarks on the report of the Royal Commission on Prisons in Ireland.
G. W. HASTINGS, M.P.
302
Criminal Jurisprudence. Lieut.-General SHOWERS
306
II.-EDUCATION.
Testing of Schools.
In testing the efficiency of schools should 'processes' or 'results' be chiefly regarded? R. LEVETT, M.A. JONAS S. COCKSHOTT
Supply of Teachers.
PAGE
309, 322
331
How far are the requirements of the country for well-trained teachers in
Elementary Schools met by the pupil-teacher system and the existing
Training Colleges? GEORGE B. DAVIS. The Rev. GEORGE GIBB. 335, 342
Endowed Schools.
Do the powers now exércised by the Charity Commissioners over the Endowed
Schools of the country stand in need of modification, and, if so, in what
direction and to what extent? ROWLAND HAMILTON
The compulsory examination and inspection of Secondary Schools, with sug-
gestions for the avoidance of the evils of an excessive centralisation.
The Rev. S. F. HIRON, LL.D., D.C.L..
Discussion
356
.
364
The brain of the school child. FRANCIS WARNER, M.D.
The peripatetic method of instruction in science and its development. Rev.
H. W. CROSSKEY, LL.D., F.G.S., Chairman of the School Management
Committee of the Birmingham School Board
Education: its essence and its tool. Professor BONAMY PRICE, LL.D.
Methods of teaching. A. SONNENSCHEIN
The Teachers' Guild. H. COURTHOPE BOWEN, M.A.
Our elder pupils and old scholars. Rev. HENRY SOLLY
Suburban literary institutes. S. WALL RICHARDS, Chairman of the Birming-
ham Suburban Institutes Union
The State and popular education. Rev. ABNER E. BROWN, M.A.
The British School of Archæology at Athens. Professor E. A. SONNENSCHEIN,
M.A..
Educated women as technical workers. Miss SARAH HARLAND, Mathe-
HARLAND,
matical Lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge
III.-HEALTH.
Disposal of Town Sewage, &c.
What is the best method of dealing with (a) town sewage, (b) the products
of house and street scavenging, and (c) the products of combustion?
EDWARD PRITCHARD, C.E., M. Inst. C.E., F.G.S. LAWSON TAIT, F.R.C.S.
Captain DOUGLAS GALTON, C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.
419, 433, 443
453
Dwellings of the Poor.
What are the best means, legislative or other, of securing those improve-
ments in the dwellings of the poor which are essential to the welfare
of the community? JOHN HAMER
Sanitary Test-Value of the Death Rate.
How far may the average death-rate of a population be considered an
efficient test of its sanitary condition; and by what means can the
high death-rate of children be reduced? NOEL A. HUMPHREYS,
HENRY ASHBY, M.D..
459
473
The relation between Boards of Guardians and their Medical Officers.
JOSEPH ROGERS, M.D.
Asiatic Cholera, and some of the lessons learnt in its home in India.
Surgeon-Major R. PRINGLE, M.D.
Vaccination and re-vaccination. Surgeon-Major R. PRINGLE, M.D.
Infectious diseases. Capt. E. A. VERNEY, R.N.
On the future of some of the London Hospitals. R. DENNY URLIN.
A plea for homes and hospitals for incurable and chronic diseases, with
special reference to the Midland Counties Home for Incurables at
Leamington. J. LANCASTER RANKING, Surgeon-General (Retired)
Madras Medical Service
Sanitary test-value of the mean mortality, with suggested means for the
reduction of child mortality. HERBERT PAGE, M.D., S. Sc. C. Cantab. 526
On the pollution of rivers. E. WYATT-EDGELL, B.A.
A short account of sanitary work carried on in Birmingham by a Ladies'
Association. Mrs. R. W. DALE.
A method of treating human bodies for the prevention of putrefactive
changes. THOMAS BAYLEY.
Facts and figures connected with 'first aid,' and the carriage of sick and
injured persons. Surgeon-Major GEORGE A. HUTTON
IV.-ECONOMY AND TRADE.
Enfranchisement of Leaseholds.
Would it be advantageous to give to leaseholders powers entitling them to
the purchase of the fee simple of the lands and premises they occupy,
or otherwise to interfere by law with the prevailing system of build-
ing and other long leases? JOHN T. EMMETT. J. S. RUBINSTEIN 535, 554
The Limited Liability Acts.
What have been the effects of the Limited Liability Acts on industry, and
are any amendments required? G. LATHAM BRowne.