HAMILTON ASSOCIATION 



SESSIOU 1S83-18S4. 



INAUGURAL ADDRESS 



BY JOHN D. MACDONALD, M.D., PRESIDENT. 



HEALTH. 



Thursday, 15th November, 1883. 



By your kind consideration it is my lot again to open the session 

 of the Hamilton Association, and it is my pleasing duty to return 

 my thanks to the friends by whom I see myself surrounded for the 

 acceptable position in which by their decision I have been placed. 

 It is a matter of no small moment to possess the good opinion of 

 friends and neighbours after years of acquaintance, and I can assure 

 the friends here, that I am most sensible of the nature of the resolu- 

 tion passed at our last meeting, by which I was again appointed to 

 occupy the chair of their president. 



It is gratifying to see the Association re-assemble in undimin- 

 ished numbers, and it is surely fitting that, therefore, we should 

 entertain feelings of thankfulness to the good providence by 

 whose care we have been kept, and have now come together 

 in bodily and mental health so good, as seems to promise us 

 a season of social converse, which shall be useful and attractive 

 to ourselves, and to such friends as from time to time attend 

 our meetings. 



Our Corresponding Secretary has informed us what the subjects 

 are, of which we have promise for our occupation at our sittings during 

 the season, and by an examination of his list you will see that our 

 prospects of useful discusion are as good as at any previous opening 

 of the session of the Society. He has also been able to acquaint 

 us that we have become known beyond the borders of our own city. 

 He presents us with reports and communications proving to us pur 



