NEW-CITY OF HYGEIA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 13

NEW-CITY OF HYGEIA.

Sir James Griehion-Browne - presided'~at the tweH*.y-.seventh annual dinner ofT -the Sanitary Inspectors' Association,, -and responding to the toast of the association, pointed out that the national death rate, w&ieh fifty years ago stood at 22 per 166©, was m 1908 onjy 14.7 per 100 G. in securing that result practical saßkafkm had played an important part. A former president of that association efceed Ihe unavoidable death rate d«e to senile decay and natural wasting at -10 per 1060 in his model city of Hjsgeta. That at the time seemed a romaistic and Utopian exaggeration. "But they vjere now within measurable dist-anee -of reafising it ami of exceeding it. The sanitary inspectors, who •were the^right-hand of the medical oflieers of iranJcb., ware for th© most part ! w-efi educated, weft ecpiipfied, ■and ener- j jgetie pubic servants. They were- beneficent Pad Frys. They hoped they did not intrude, but nothing was sacr«d to them. A _ chemist had calculated that half a miHicn tons of sulphuric at id were passed every ye.v- into the atmosphere ;«£ London. Lnags of leather, bronciral lubes of rubber tyre, could not jresist that. T-hev had succeeded in improsdng the condition of the London atmospitete, and he twisted they would persevere bit&i they bad. a London as *free, bright-and clear as Monte Carlo.

A, .list was issued on Bth February of seventy-six ladies whose appointment as QtMABJt cuj«att kua begti opp?@ve<l by &$ .Qiyan.