SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT OF THE JUDGES ON THE EXHIBITS DEFERRED FOR FURTHER PRACTICAL TRIAL. DUBLIN, 1884. Out of the thirty-nine Exhibits deferred for further practical trial, as mentioned in the Report, the following were submitted by the exhibitors : DOCKRELL, THOMAS, SONS & Co., Dublin, Cheap Artistic Non-poisonous and Washable Wall Papers. *GANDY, MAURICE, London, Cotton Machine Belting. BOURTREEHILL COAL CO., Dreghorn, Ayrshire, N.B., White Enamelled Fireclay Laundry Trough. MAGUIRE & SON, Dublin, Wilcocks' Automatic Flushing Closet. WENHAM'S PATENT GAS LAMP COMPANY, London, Regenerative Gas Burner. BENSDORP & Co., London, Soluble Dutch Cocoa. BURROUGHS, WELLCOME & Co., London, Kepler's Extract of Malt, and ditto with combinations. CLARK, E. & Co., London, Coffee Extract. *DOULTON & Co., London, Manganous Carbon Filters. DUBLIN & WICKLOW MANURE Co., Dublin, Strype's Process for Drying Blood. LANE, DENNY, Cork, Silverspring Rice Starch. We recommend that Medals be awarded to the undermentioned exhibitors : DUBLIN & WICKLOW MANURE Co., Dublin, for Strype's Process for Drying Blood. WENHAM'S PATENT GAS LAMP Co., London, for Wenham's Ventilating Gas Lamp. We also recommend that Certificates of Merit be awarded to the undermentioned exhibitors : DOCKRELL, THOMAS, SONS & Co., Dublin, for Cheap Artistic Nonarsenical Washable Wall Papers. BOURTREEHILL COAL Co., Dreghorn, Ayrshire, for White Enamelled Fireclay Laundry Trough. * See note at end of Report on next page. MAGUIRE & SON,, Dublin, for Wilcocks' Automatic Flushing Closet. BENSDORP & Co., London, for Soluble Dutch Cocoa. BURROUGHS, WELLCOME & Co., London, for Kepler's Extract of Malt, and combinations of it with Pepsine, Chocolate, and Cod Liver Oil. CLARK, E. & Co., London, for Coffee Extract. MAIGNEN, P. A., London, for Anti-Calcaire Powders for Softening Water, exhibited at the Glasgow Exhibition, 1883. We have much pleasure in recommending that the Richardson Medal be awarded to EDMUNDSON, J. & Co., Dublin, for exhibit of Swann's Electric Lamps. * We have not yet had sufficient opportunity of testing the exhibits marked with an asterisk, and they are therefore of necessity deferred for a future Report. W. H. CORFIELD, M.A., M.D.Oxon., Chairman. H. C. BARTLETT. Ph.D., F.C.S. F. S. B. F. DE CHAUMONT, M.D., F.R.S. W. EASSIE, C.E. ROGERS FIELD, B.A., M.Inst.C.E. HENRY LAW, M.Inst.C.E. J. WALLACE PEGGS, A.M.Inst.C.E. CONFERENCE ON DOMESTIC SANITATION, HELD AT THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EXHIBITION, JUNE 9 TO 14TH, 1884. Ar the request of the Executive Council of the International Health Exhibition, the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and the Parkes Museum of Hygiene, combined together for the purpose of organizing a Conference on Sanitary Subjects, and to this end each Society appointed three of its leading members to represent it on a joint Committee. The joint Committee was thus constituted :-Dr. Alfred Carpenter, J.P., Chairman of Council of the Sanitary Institute; Professor W. H. Corfield, M.A., M.D., Medical Officer of Health for St. George's, Hanover Square; Mr. Ernest Turner, F.R.I.B.A., representing the Sanitary Institute. Dr. T. Orme Dudfield, President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, Medical Officer of Health for Kensington; Dr. J. S. Bristowe, F.R.S., Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell; Mr. A. Wynter Blyth, M.R.C.S., Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, representing the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Captain Douglas Galton, R.E., C.B., F.R.S., Chairman of Council Parkes Museum; Rogers Field, B.A., M.INST.C.E.; Dr. Louis Parkes representing the Parkes Museum of Hygiene. Dr. Dudfield was elected Chairman of this Committee, and Dr. Louis Parkes was appointed Honorary Secretary. The work of organizing the Conference was satisfactorily carried through, the aim of the joint Committee being to bring forward at the Conference by means of Papers, whose authors should be men distinguished in Sanitary work, matters bearing on Public Health, which should not only throw light and provide instruction on some of the great sanitary problems of the day, but which should be capable of discussion, so that a general agreement of Sanitarians on disputed points might be obtained, and public opinion be thereby guided into the right channels. The Conferences were very numerously attended, and the subjects of the Papers read were subsequently discussed by some of the most distinguished Sanitarians in the country, including Members of Parliament, Engineers, Architects, Physicians. and Medical Officers of Health. In addition, on Friday, the Conference was honoured by the presidency of the Right Hon. Earl Fortescue; on Saturday, by the presidency of Sir J. McGarel Hogg, Bart., M.P., Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works; and on Wednesday, by the presidency of Mr. Edwin Chadwick, C.B. On Thursday the Conference was honoured by the presence of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, G.C.S.I., Chairman of the Executive Council of the International Health Exhibition, who addressed the meeting. The Conference lasted from Monday, 9th, to Saturday, 14th June. Monday, June 9th, Dr. T. Orme Dudfield, President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, took the chair. Dr. J. W. Tripe, Medical Officer of Health for Hackney, read a paper on "The Domestic Sanitary Arrangements of the Metropolitan Poor." Mr. Ernest Turner, F.R.I.B.A., read a paper on the "Improvement of the Sanitary Arrangements of Metropolitan Houses." Tuesday, June 10th, Captain Douglas Galton, C.B., F.R.S., Chairman of Council Parkes Museum of Hygiene, took the chair. Dr. George Wilson, Medical Officer of Health for Mid-Warwickshire, read a paper on "Domestic Sanitation in Rural Districts." Mr. H. Percy Boulnois, M.INST.C.E., Borough Engineer, Portsmouth, read a paper on Sanitary Houses for the Working Classes in Urban Districts.” Wednesday, June 11th, His Grace The Duke of Northumberland being prevented from presiding owing to sudden illness, Dr. Alfred Carpenter took the chair, which he subsequently vacated to Mr. Edwin Chadwick. Dr. J. Syer Bristowe, F.B.S., Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell, read a paper on "Industrial Diseases." Thursday, June 12th, Dr. Alfred Carpenter, J.P., Chairman of Council Sanitary Institute, took the chair. Professor W. H. Corfield, M.A., M.D., F.B.C.P., Medical Officer of Health for St. George's, Hanover Square, read a paper on "How Infectious Diseases are Spread." Dr. R. N. Thursfield, Medical Officer of Health, Shropshire Combined San. Dist., read a paper on " Cows' Milk as a Vehicle of Infectious and Epidemic Diseases to the Community, with suggestions for the more effectual Prevention of such Outbreaks." Friday, June 13th, Right Hon. Earl Fortescue took the chair and addressed the meeting. Dr. Alfred Hill, Medical Officer of Health for Birmingham, then read a paper on "The Notification of Infectious Diseases, its Importance and its Difficulties." Dr. Alfred Carpenter read a paper on "The Right of the State to Enforce Notification, and the best method of doing it." Saturday, June 14th, Sir James M'Garel Hogg, Bart., M.P., took the chair. Mr. Wynter Blyth, Medical Officer of Health for Marylebone, read a paper on Disposal of the Dead." Mr. W. Eassie, C.E., F.G.S., read a paper on "Cremation." 66 All the papers, with the discussions which followed, are published in extenso in volume viii. of the "Health Exhibition Literature." |