First general report
1922-05 1922 1920s 55 pages : illustrations International Congress. The League was invited to nominate a delegate to attend the International Health Congress, held in Brussels in May, 1920, convened by the Royal Institute of Public Health. The Honorary Organiser was selected by the Medical Council...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London : People's League of Health
May 1922
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| Summary: | 1922-05
1922
1920s
55 pages : illustrations
International Congress. The League was invited to nominate a delegate to attend the International Health Congress, held in Brussels in May, 1920, convened by the Royal Institute of Public Health. The Honorary Organiser was selected by the Medical Council to represent the League at the Congress, and in this official capacity laid before the Chairman of the Municipal Hygiene Section at the Congress the following suggestions for discussion:— (1) In the practical effort now being made to fight disease and raise the standard of health of the people. (2) As an economic measure, and as supplying an urgent need of the workers of all countries, "That the heat engendered and necessary for the burning of the refuse of cities should be utilised for the heating of water to be supplied from the main supply, and available to all householders, businesses, institutions and factories." The suggestion was received favourably, especially in relation to new garden and other cities, where the existing difficulties present in our cities would not have to be overcome, and a recommendation to the Secretary of the International Health Congress was drafted by the Chairman. Dr. Henry Thierry, Inspecteur Général des Services d'Hygiene de Paris et Membre de Conseil Superièure d'Hygiene, and D.J.C. McWalter, F.R.C.S., D.P.H. Dublin, LL.D., read papers on the prevalence and increase of cancer cases, and a discussion followed as to whether the increase might not be due to a more accurate diagnosis of the disease. Subsequently a sub-committee composed of the following doctors attending the Congress: Docteur Henry Thierry; Dr. A.M.N. Pringle, M.B., M.O.H. for Ipswich; Dr. J.C. McWalter, Dublin; Dr. Hyslop Thomson, D.P.H., County Medical Officer of Health for Hertford, and the Hon. Organiser, official representative of the People's League of Health at the Congress, discussed the need of a cancer survey of all countries, and it was decided that the following recommendation should be laid before the Medical Council of the People's League of Health at the earliest opportunity: (a) That, in view of the prevalence of Cancer, a Cancer survey of Great Britain would be advisable. A Paper read at the Congress by Dr. Sphel, Professor of the University of Brussels on Tuberculosis in children, was the result of another recommendation submitted by the Hon. Organiser to the Medical Council of the League for its consideration at a meeting held on July 28th, 1920: (b) That, in view of the prevalence of Tuberculosis, a three-monthly examination of all school children would be advisable, and a tuberculosis census taken of their families. The League communicated with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and received information that the last complete Cancer survey of Great Britain available was made in 1905 and a Geographical Cancer Survey in the same year. On page 49 of this General Report will be found a comparative chart of deaths from Cancer in the years 1900-1905-1918. It was decided that: In view of the great financial stringency of the country consequent upon the war, further action was postponed. The League is in close association on health matters with Italy (the Italian Institute of Hygiene), United States of America (Child Welfare Association of New York), Geneva (League of Red Cross Societies), France, Holland, Belgium. Croats and Serbs, with whom we exchange literature. Through the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Dr. T.R. Farnell, D.Litt., the League has been brought in touch with the Oxford University Extension Delegacy, which body is considering the request made by the League to deliver to it the special course of lectures, entitled "The Mind and what we ought to know about it." Dr. Farnell expressed himself as being "impressed with the importance of the subject, and with the distinguished names of many of the lecturers." 34
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