440 Major Leiean on Anti-Typhoid Inoculation [April 23, 



lated men, while of the 50 recorded deaths only one has been an 

 inoculated man. 



In face of the overwhelmingly convincing mass of statistical 

 evidence of the value of this means of protection, one can only look 

 eagerly for the day when our men will be saved from their own vacilla-, 

 tion, and rescued from the sinister influence of the anti-everything 

 busybody, by having prophylactic anti-enteric inoculation made com- 

 pulsory. Meanwhile the medical officer — already overtaxed by duties 

 sufficiently strenuous — must undertake the thankless task of per- 

 suading men to voluntarily adopt a measure which not only protects 

 themselves from a grave danger, but protects the whole army in the 

 field from the risk thrust upon it by the obstinacy of the recalci- 

 trant, who meets everv argument and appeal with the parrot-crv of 

 " 1 don't hold with it.'"' 



[P. S. L.] 



AXXUAL MEETING, 

 Saturday, May 1, 1915. 



The Duke of Northumberland, K.Gr. P.O. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S., 



President, in the Chair. 



The Annual Report of the Committee of Visitors for the year 

 1914, tesifying to the continued prosperity and efficient management 

 of the Institution, was read and adopted. 



Forty-four new Members were elected in L914. 



Sixty-two Lectures and Nineteen Evening Discourses were 

 delivered in 1914. 



The Books and Pamphlets presented in 1914 amounted to about 

 338 volumes, making, with G52 volumes (including Periodicals bound) 

 purchased by the Managers, a total of 990 volumes added to the 

 Library in the year. 



Thanks were voted to the President, Treasurer, and the Secretary, 

 to the Committees of Managers and Visitors, and to the Professors, 

 for their valuable services to the Institution during the past year. 



The following Gentlemen were unanimously elected as Officers 

 for the ensuing year : 



President— The Duke of Northumberland, K.G, P.C. D.C.L. 



LL.D.F.R.S. 

 Treasurer — Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D. LL.D. D.Sc. 



F.R.S. 

 Secretary— Colonel E. H. Hills, C.M.G. R.E. D.Sc. F.R.S. 



