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Touching the matter of research there are two other subjects to 

 which I should like briefly to refer. Public Health and all that is in- 

 volved in these words is occupying more and more of our attention. 

 Enormous advances have been made, and are being made from day to 

 day, in medical and surgical science, but if I may venture to use a pain- 

 fully hackneyed and well-known expression, nearly two thousand years 

 have elapsed since Juvenal wrote "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in 

 corpore sano" and the prayer is as urgent to-day as it was then. 



The war, undoubtedly, disclosed conditions the gravity of which 

 cannot be overlooked. I am not now referring to the loss or impairment 

 of life as direct consequences of the war. I am not alluding to those who 

 were killed in action, or wounded or maimed as a direct result of war, 

 but to the physical and mental conditions which were found to exist in 

 different countries when they were called upon to make preparation for 

 war. Nor is there reason so far as I have been able to inform myself, 

 to make an exception of any of the belligerent nations. In preparing 

 and equipping ourselves for war we — and I say "we" in the broadest 

 possible sense — undoubtedly found conditions prevailing which, to 

 say the very least, give rise to great anxiety and call for inquiry. 

 Many of you, I know, are familiar with the phrase of the Prime Minister 

 of Great Britain, Mr. Lloyd George, "You cannot get A-1 workers out 

 of a C-3 population." Mr. Lloyd George is a past master at the art of 

 phrase-making, but he never coined a better or more pointed phrase. 

 It summarizes the situation with which we are confronted. 



I know that much has been achieved. There are great institutions 

 throughout the world which have already done, and which from day to 

 day are doing, notable work in advancing the science of Public Health. 

 We owe a debt which we can never repay to the men and women who, 

 by patient investigation and industry, have done so much to relieve 

 human suffering and to the splendid munificence of those individuals 

 who have made it possible for the skilled and trained researchers to do 

 this beneficent work. In this connection I hope I may be allowed to 

 take the opportunity of referring to the generosity of that distinguished 

 citizen of Toronto and member of this Institute, Colonel Gooderham, in 

 providing the Connaught Laboratories which did such great work during 

 the war. (Applause.) That work, I feel confident, is only an earnest 

 of what is to be done, not only in the distant, but in the very near future 

 as well. 



Though much has been accomplished in the way of medical research 

 we all know that the field is a vast one and that the opportunities for 

 further development are unlimited. However wonderful the results 

 attained, the call is ever for more. No encouragement to research along 



