The President's (Dr. Milroy's) Address on Vacating the Chair

In the spring of last year, the report on the questions relating to the classification of epidemic diseases which had been brought under their consideration some eighteen months before by Dr. Farr, one of our Vice-Presidents, was published, together with the replies on the subject received from many men in the profession whose authority, from their high position in the public service, was entitled to peculiar respect. I will merely recal to your recollection the third question, which is the most important one, and the conclusion respecting it to which the Council came, after having carefully weighed the opinions expressed thereon.