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THE Sanitary Institute of Great Britain succeeds, by its annual migrations from town to town, in securing a widely-diffused interest in matters relating to public health, and there are but few large towns in the United Kingdom that stand in greater need of some such stimu lus than Dublin, where, under the presidency of the veteran sanitary engineer, Sir Robert Rawlinson, C.B., the Institute has met this autumn. Within the past twelve years we have made great strides in organising a sanitary administration in this country, every portion of which is subject to the control of a sanitary authority having at least two executive officers—the medical officer of health, who is intended to be a skilled adviser as to the principles which should be held in view in action taken for the promotion of health; and an inspector of nuisances, whose functions relate in the main to the periodic inspection of his district with a view of the re moval of such conditions as are likely to cause injury to health, or nuisance. In Ireland a somewhat similar organisation has also been established, and, as in this country, the working of the system is subject to the con trol of a central body known as the Local Government Board. But to judge from a paper read before the Insti tute by Dr. Edgar Finn, there is a wide difference between the efficiency of the two systems, and it is certain that, whether judged by the progress that has actually been made or by the amount of money that has been raised by way of loan for the execution of sanitary works in Eng land and in Ireland, the latter country must be regarded as comparing very unfavourably with the former.
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The Sanitary Institute at Dublin . Nature 30, 557–558 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030557b0
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