The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-14 00:00:00

[Stamped, Id. Additional.]

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR TIER PRO-

NOTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE.

CONORES INTERNATIONAL DE BIENFAISANCE.
The sittings of this society mere resumed yesterday mom-
as BurllEooo-house. The Earl of SaArnsion ia the
chair.

Mr. ROB BINS opened the laminar of the day by reading •
paper prepared by Kim Florence Nightingale, "On Anny

edminiaration and its reform older the late
Lord Herbert," wherein that lady, after wag a well-
deserved tribute of admiration and respect to the memory of
Lord Herbert, proceeded to state that the present improved
amatory condition of the army ha been the result of do
Crimes catastrophe. Al that period the death rate is on
army from consumption and other diseases eers
domed by the troops breathing foul air seeded
the total death rate among the civil population of carre-
-1 sonatas age. The Barrack and Hospital Improvised
Oionaare Owing been appointed in 1866, proceeded at
ease totapidiethe oftnation end warming of the barracks,
I edited amehinery of any kind. Under their auspice'
drainage has lima introduced, and osespits abolished ; the
water supply has boa exteaded, baths has bee intro.
deed both In hospitals sad in Snacks, and the lavatory
ausgresents_ixnenglinia=ldh.. Barrack kitche
eookias ns have
I pawed, gs".""rlitglime ledreineM gal ode is swat in the
eirenlatits of fresh air ; stables have bees ventaded, sad
edges have been aboathed. Is accordance with the mob
flesnakeig• re the ennwaseinn more simple end heathy sin-
elpise for the emeasestaa of Store barracks sad bowels*
fin 'miming bider drainage, more efficient reenter and
mare cable spade for deskssad wells, win be adopted.
pineinise awe Sea already extended to the Mediterrinean
Odom. The rendled these genesal improvements it the
staitia7namirylest the army a that the mortality hes
been osibbelf. A school for practical cookery
imbed tobe eseablished at Aldershott for training regimental
and hospital dolts. The accord sub-commission was
appointed for reorganising the medical department, which
isp to that time made no provision for systematically =
for the soldiers' health ; s fact it sees only fitted to
them when they mime into the hospital, end not to prevent
them bog planed to go there. The new cede of spa,
dons established by the commission had been entirely sea
motet The third sub-oommirsion was charged with omen-
Ong the Army Medical &Sod at Chatham, for the
instruction ci army medial eeedisisties, which was opened in
IWO by Lord Herbert, sad had Mos Sea workbag ia a
most satisfactory meow, end she believed the instruction it
distributed was one of the come of the decreased death
Os The fourth sub-connindea was charged with organ-
Sag the army medical statistics, which were then
most incomplete ; whereas now the exact sate of
health of the men in each regiment can be
=stained at mice. Another great sanitary reform was
effected in this improvement el the purveying department,
whisk bed broken down es in former wars, its
defects being visited chiefly ace sod wounded, for
whom hod tit wee eeibtabsi Lied Merhert in 1861
hared a new paseyag reds ef hopletiese, weighhave
bees tried mforeign service, sad lase been food to fully
answer every purpose which
they were intended to fuIAL
Ale also eq;anised and trained may hospital corps to mune
the lick, which has proved most benedleial in alleviating the
irafferihis ol the patients. The proof of the great susses
of these various improvements was afforded is the last
Chinese war, when the mortality of the force, including the
wounded, amounted to little more than three per cent. per
annum, whilst the "constantly sick" in hospital was little
mire So at home. Day-rooms and institutiose
lies been formed for the purpose of satin the s
against them great moral evils which were suppose:an
inseparable from garrisons and camps. If no redcoat'
amusements are provided for the troops they ere exposed to
peat temptations, and profligacy on their parts must
necessarily be the result of want of oompatim. It was •
serious question whether government ought not to interfere
to put down the open temptations to vice est it put down
the open tem tatioes to crime. At all greets, let the
soldiers' 6arracke be made more of • home to them. Let
Blabs be estabhehed, and increased miens of occupation be
provided—old se workshops, gardens, out-doer games sad
einusements—and rational recreation bin prwidd in the
dupe of leduree, he.
The raper VIM listened to with great attention, bed at the
wiedwasa the members testified their unanimous apprebe-
eapeeasd IVl‘e"Vglimulmhe._ that tie =proem" by
eet iloud s
the
el the soldiers wee der demanding immediate atten-
tion, as we were losing 2,000 ass per annum in eoneequeeee
el their profligate Wilts. They ought to force upon govern-
ment the seeessity of taking every step in their power to
improve the moral and sanitary condition of the soldier.
- - -

Mr. Jamul T. Hanicscr, one of the boo. secretaries of
the Congress, read a paper " On the English Census of the
Blind and the Deaf and Dumb."
The Rev. R. G. Bain, vicar of Fulham, read a paper
" On Measures which should be taken for ameliorating the
Condition of the Adult Deaf and Dumb among the Poor,"
and was followed by
Mr. S. Wm.cmrr, au of the Emigration Commissioners,
who read • paper " On the Government Arrangements with
respect to Linogration from the United Kingdom."
Mr. Bonne also read a paper osferriag to certain pro-
jected improvements in the dwellings of the poor.
IL Am). VlllllCEMazgested a question for discussion as
to whether the state have the power of separating from
their parent. children morally neglected, and of
°l2
the parents with their education, and, if neomory7:l2
their maintenance. A committee of the Congrh had re-
portedthe affirmative upon the subject, which had been
in
investigated by them.
After some discussion had taken place, the meeting a:-
premed it. satisfaction at the decision arrived at by the
committee. _ _

—icesecond question for discussion wee whether attend-
ance at parochial schools ought to he compulsory, and if so,
under what form and limitation. A long cud rather noisy
discussion ensued upon this point, the result of which was
that certain rerolutsons were teased expressing the opinion
of the =agrees that attendance at schools ought not to be
compulsory.
The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the
chairman, which brought the congress to a conclusion.