Excerpt from The Future of Sanitary Science: An Address Delivered Before the Sanitary Great Britain at the Royal Institution, on July 5th, 1877

I could have wished it had been in my power on the present occasion to produce one of those essays which appeal to the imagination while they prepare the mind for the reception of sanitary principles and practice. Such essays are tempting, and, in their place, instructive. To-day I am bound on a voyage less pleasant, yet I hope not less useful.

There has recently been called into existence a new society under whose summons we now meet. The society has assumed to itself the expressive name of The Sanitary Institute of Great Britain.

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