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THE first volume of the Proceedings of the International Sanitary Conference of Rome has been issued just at the time when the question of the reassembling of the Conference is a matter of diplomatic discussion. The Roman Conference of this year was brought together by the Italian Government because it was felt that, after the cholera experience of 1883 in Egypt and of 1884 in Southern Europe, advance might be made in determining the bases of an International Code as to quarantine or other preventive measures. The previous Conference had been held at Vienna in 1874, and the conclusions then arrived at had indicated substantial progress since the preceding meeting at Constantinople in 1866. Under these circumstances nearly all civilised Governments responded to the appeal of Italy, and five delegates were deputed to represent this country. Two of these, Sir W. Guyer Hunter and Dr. Thorne Thorne, acted with the British Ambassador at Rome for Great Britain, and Sir Joseph Fayrer with Dr. Timothy Lewis went as representatives of our Indian Empire. Soon after the opening proceedings, a Technical Commission, consisting of the medical delegates, was formed, and it is essentially with the proceedings of that Commission that the volume referred to has to do.
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The International Sanitary Conference of Rome, 1885. Nature 33, 25 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033025a0
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