Half a Century of Sanitary Progress, and Its Results. Inaugural Address of Session 1898-99
نویسنده
چکیده
In casting about for a subject on which I might profitably address you this evening, I remembered that it is now fifty years since the first general Public Health Act, that of 1848, was passed. The Annual Report of the Registrar General for 1896, published this year, completes also a fifty years' record of the deaths from different causes in England and Wales; sinfce the classification of the causes of
منابع مشابه
Exploring Rhetorical-Discursive Moves in Hassan Rouhani’s Inaugural Speech: A Eulogy for Moderation
Before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in Iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. Being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of Iran's seventh president, Hasan Rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. The current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical moves tha...
متن کاملInaugural Address of Session 1891-92
In my former address, I gave a brief review of some recent sanitary legislation, enacted with a view to aid local authorities in dealing with avoidable and preventable disease. It was demonstrated that this legislation was hygienically and fiscally a long way short of meeting the pressing necessities of the times in which we live. The permissive character of a good deal of it was found to be hi...
متن کاملOn the Comparative Mortality of English Districts. Inaugural Address of Session 1899-1900
these efforts had attained. We found that?partly, no doubt, through the general amelioration of social conditions, but partly also, as there was good reason to believe, as the result of efforts specially directed towards the improvement of the public health?there had been, during the half-century under review, a marked decline of the death-rate, it having fallen from 23.1 per 1,000 inhabitants ...
متن کاملInternational Sanitary Conferences of the Victorian Era. Inaugural Address of Session 1897-98
as those of last year. It is not necessary to remind you of the many excellent papers we have had read before this Society. Our Transactions, which have just been published, indicate the growth and interest taken by the members of the Epidemiological Society?and, indeed, I may add outside it?by men not only belonging to the medical profession but by those who study sanitary science in its many ...
متن کاملObama’s “Pivot to Asia” Policy (2011- 2016): the Case of China
It has been argued and stated that the 21st century is America's Pacific Century, the century or millennium of Asia, and century or era of China, the inevitable superpower. This paper explains the essence of the new changes when the Pivot Policy was announced by President Obama in 2011. The main question discussed is therefore the following: ‘Why (and how) did President Obama adopt (and impleme...
متن کامل