The Annual Conference of the Sanitary Inspectors' Associa- tion opened
on Monday, and on Tuesday Sir J. Crichton. Browne delivered the Presidential address on "Food and Fish Supply." After acknowledging the valuable services performed by the Fishmongers' Company by systematic inspection and educating the poor in the value of fish as a health-sustaining food, Sir J. Crichton-Browne pointed out that the market price of fish—which, from a physiological point of view, was the next best thing to meat—was no criterion of its nutritive value, and that many kinds of fish which were unfashionable gave a very high return in nutriment for the prices at which they were quoted. To bring home this useful knowledge much could be done by sanitary inspectors. Apart from the general advantage which would accrue to the public health in raising the plane of living among the poorer classes by an abundant supply of cheap fish, be believed that it would prove a useful auxiliary in the crusade against tuber- culosis. Fish foods were rich in protein, and thus peculiarly well adapted towards increasing the power of resistance to that disease.
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