International 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 bearings, and who recognise that a knowledge of epidemiology offers even to the nonprofessional man many features, not only of interest but also of study, if indeed we are to master the rules of life which will allow us to guide and govern an empire on which the sun never sets, and which embraces every diversity of climate and soil. And, in connection with this subject, it seemed to me that