COLLECTANEA

DE DIVERSIS REBUS

ADDRESSES AND PAPERS

BY
SIR PETER EADE, M.D., Lond.

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of King’s
College, London; Consulting Physician to the Norfolk and Norwich
Hospital, to the Jenny Lind Infirmary for Sick Children, and
to the Norwich Dispensary; Honorary Freeman of
the City of Norwich

LONDON
JARROLD AND SONS, 10 AND 11, WARWICK LANE, E.C.

All Rights Reserved

1908

CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

The following Addresses and Papers on various subjects have been selected from many others contributed by the Author, as thought to be possibly of sufficient interest in their respective spheres to justify their reproduction in a collected form.  They are very diverse in their character, and embrace a great variety of topics.

It has been well said that all men are delighted to look back; and the Author, whilst thus recalling past work, can only express the hope that some of these Papers may have contributed, however infinitesimally, each in their own way and at their respective times, to help forward the appreciation of the then present, or the progress of the world’s welfare or knowledge in the future.

   Norwich, 1908.

I.
PROPOSED PROVISION OF RECREATION GROUNDS FOR NORWICH.

Condensed Report of Speech in Norwich Town Council, 1880, reprinted from the Norwich Mercury of October 23rd, 1880:—

Dr. Eade, pursuant to notice, rose to call attention to the question of recreation or playgrounds for the children of Norwich.

He reminded the Council that four or five years ago, after some considerable talk with leading citizens, he ventured in the public Press to call attention to the deficiency which existed in Norwich in respect of recreation or playgrounds, and also of public baths.  Ever since that time the question had, more or less, started up at intervals, while certain steps had been taken, which, in the course of time, would probably result in something being achieved.  But, as time went on, the city was growing rapidly, open spaces were built upon, and he and those who were anxious to see something done were passing away.  He had, therefore, taken upon himself once again to call attention to the subject, and to ask the Council to take action upon it.

After remarking upon the great importance now generally attached to questions affecting the public health, sanitation, or preventive medicine—for these were synonymous terms—and the intimate connection now everywhere recognised between the general welfare of the population of our great cities, and the absence of disease, with the consequent reduction in the death-rate, Dr. Eade said that it was entirely from the point of view of the public health that he wished to call attention to this subject.  The physical growth, the physical well-being, and the physical development of the population formed a large branch of this subject; and he was afraid that, with regard to this, Norwich could not be said to be in the forefront of progress.  Even since he first mooted the question many of the open