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disease, as I believe there was much justice in the opinion of an 

 old teacher of mine that every case of typhoid fever should be 

 followed by a criminal prosecution. 



Mr. MiLLiGAN — I think one of the factors that tended to 

 advance national health in ancient times was the fact that 

 women engaged more in athletic exercises than they do in the 

 present day. It is the duty of our Town Council to provide 

 open spaces where children can play, and parks for athletic 

 games ; and if the people were more careful in their food a 

 higher standard of health could be attained. 



Mr. Greenhill — I agree with Mr. Scott's remarks to a very 

 large extent. It has been said that you cannot make a man 

 sober by Act of Parliament, with that I entirely agree ; but you 

 can to a very large extent prevent him getting drunk by legisla- 

 tion. I also consider that a parent should be made amenable for 

 sending a child out to the street half-clad. One point strikes 

 me particularly, the matter of infantile insurance. To my 

 mind it ought to be absolutely impossible for any parent to 

 insure his child's life so as to benefit by his death. I think if 

 that were prevented greater care would be taken with regard to 

 the maintenance of the children's health. I won't touch upon 

 the question of purifying sewage by electricity, because it is a 

 subject of which I know very little, but I have no doubt that 

 the experiments which are being carried on at Havre and other 

 places will prove of immense benefit to the large cities where 

 there is great difficulty with regard to the disposal of the 

 sewage. 



Mr. Scott — I must thank you for the manner in which you 

 have received my paper, and I consider the compliment paid to 

 me by such a man as Dr. Redfern, a gentleman whose reputa- 

 tion is not only local but European, an ample return for any 

 trouble I may have had. Dr. Whitaker thought that the 

 moral had nothing to do with the national health ; I entirely 

 disagree with him. If you leave the moral and the spiritual 

 out, you will have little left. In reply to Dr. MacCormac, who 

 understood me as making some remarks against the medical 

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