The Teaching of Forensic Medicine

Abstract

WE are at the commencement of our fourteenth session, and if ever there were doubts as to the success of the Society when it was launched in 1901, these have long since been dispelled. Our members, as well as the work to which our Transactions bear testimony, are more than a sufficient answer to any questions as to our usefulness and activity. We were fortunate to start life with sixty-five members, and ever since the membership has gone on increasing, until I see from the recent volume of Transactions, t upon the issue of which our hearty congratulations are due to the Editor, our numbers last year were two hundred and thirty-two. The Society during its comparatively short life has not been content, I am glad to say, to lead a passive and selfish existence, but has frequently placed its advice and services at the disposal of the authorities upon questions affecting the public welfare on which it was qualified to offer an opinion. Last year, also, the Society was able to extend hospitality to the members of the Forensic Medicine Section of the International Medical Congress by providing conveyance of the Section to Broadmoor, a visit which was much appreciated, and the success of which was largely due to the generous action of our Society. We meet this year under exceptional circumstances, which, let us trust, wiII never recur. The war into which our country has been plunged is one which arouses in all of us feelings of deep patriotism, and the desire to help our countrymen and brave Allies