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Abstract

THE seventeenth Congress of the Sanitary Institute was opened at Birmingham on Tuesday, and will continue in session during the remainder of this week. On Tuesday afternoon Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., the President of the Congress, delivered an address, in which he surveyed the progress of preventive medicine during recent times; and in the evening the Lord Mayor opened a great exhibition of appliances, machinery, food products, and the like, which is the usual feature of the Congress, and lasts a month. On Wednesday municipal representatives, medical officers of health, sanitary engineers, sanitary inspectors, and ladies held conferences and discussed papers. Thursday and Friday are to be devoted to sectional work, and there are two important lectures, one to the Congress, and one to the general public. Among the topics to be discussed are the relations of medical officers to vaccinal legislation, the milk supply, water analysis, bacteria and infectious disease, hygiene in dress, and the decrease in the birth-rate.