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he shall die whilst holding such office, the proportion of salary (if any) remaining unpaid at his death shall be paid to his personal representatives.
Art. 3.—The salary or remuneration assigned to such Officer shall be payable quarterly, according to the usual Feast Days in the year, namely, Lady Day, Midsummer Day, Michaelmas Day, aud Christmas Day; but the Sanitary Authority or Authorities may pay to him at the expiration of every calendar month such proportion as they may think fit, on account of the salary or remuneration to which he may become entitled at the termination of the quarter.
Given under our Seal of Office, this Eleventh day of
November, in the year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
James Frausfeld
Min. damber
Secretary.
President.
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No. 2.ABSTRACT by Dr. SEATON of PROCEEDINGS of the INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONFERENCE held at Vienna, July 1 to Ang, 1, 1874.
The International Sanitary Conference of Vienna, to which I had the honour of being delegated, along with Dr. Dickson of Constantinople, as representing the United Kingdom, was assembled at the instance of the Austro-Hungarian Government for objects which are stated at length in the dispatch of Count Andrássy, appended to this paper (Annex I.}. Summarily, these objects were (1) to re-examine the state of our know- ledge of cholera in reference to prophylaxy, with the view of establishing, if possible, a complete understanding between the Governments who had been convoked as to the national and international measures to be adopted for preventing the spread of that discuse, " do concerter entre les Etats « intéressés des arrangements obligatoires qui auraient pour but d'amener que parfaite conformité dans les dispositions à prendre pour sc prémunir contre ce danger comman ;" and (2) to consider the question of instituting a permanent, or temporary, international sanitary commission for the further investigation of epidemies and the means of combatting them. It was reserved for the Conference to enter or not, as it might see it, on the subject of quarantine against other diseases than cholera.
Every European State was represented at this Conference. Persia and Egypt were also represented. The United States of America had been invited by the Austro-Hungarian Government, and had accepted the invitation, but no representatives attended. The States represented were 22 in number,* each sending as many delegates as it thought fit, but each disposing of one vote only. The delegates were, with few ex- ceptions, of the medical profession, and no State was without a medical representative. Most of the delegates were persous holding office in the public service, sanitary or medical, of their respective countries.
The Conference was formally opened July 1st, 1874, and formally closed August 1st, 1874. During this time 20 sittings of the full Con- ference were held, independent of the meetings of the several committees to which had been entrusted the preliminary consideration, and pre- paration for discussion, of some of the more important questions ou which the Conference had to decide.
Following the programme which had been proposed and submitted to the respective Governments in Count Andrássy's despatch (Annex II) certain preliminary scientifle questions in reference to cholera were first submitted for consideration. These the Conference decided to consider in full assembly without the intermedium of committees. As most (though not all) of these questions had been thoroughly discussed by the Conference which had been held eight years previously at Constantinople, it was determined, in order to facilitate business, that as each such question arose the conclusions arrived at on the subject by the Constantinople Conference should be read, and a provisional vote thereon taken without discussion. If the result were one of unanimous assent, the question was regarded as settled in that sense, and the Conference passed on to the next question. But if the assent were not unanimous, if a single delegation of those present at the partie dar time even abstained from voting, the discn-sion was declared open. This male of proceeding was found in practice extremely convenient and led to a great saving of time.
Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, Bgyot, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Servia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey.
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