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INTERNATIONAL Congresses on Hygiene have been held at about two years' interval in various capitals of Europe since the year 1877. The first was held at Brussels under the especial auspices of the King of the Belgians, and was accompanied by an Exhibition of Sanitary Appliances. After the second of these Congresses, it was decided to associate with the Hygienic Congress one on the cognate subject of demography, which may be defined as the science of statistics applied to the social well-being of the people. The Congress which will assemble in London in August next will be the seventh on hygiene, and the fifth on demography. The last Congress was held at Vienna under the auspices of the Crown Prince Rudolf in 1887. It was then settled that the next Congress was to be held in London, and the year 1891 was selected; because the organizers of the French Exhibition had already announced Congresses on cognate subjects to be held in 1889 in Paris.
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The International Congress of Hygiene and Demography. Nature 43, 241–242 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043241a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/043241a0