The problem of the settling of doctors in the countryside was raised; there were requests for a statistical supervision of health based on the registration of births and deaths (which would have to mention the disease from which the individual suffered, his mode of life, and the cause of his death, thus constituting a pathological record); there were demands that the reasons for exemption from military service on medical grounds should he given in detail by the recruiting hoard; in fact, that a medical topography of each department should be drawn up, 'with detailed observations concerning the region, housing, people, principal interests, dress, atmospheric constitution, pro duce of the ground, time of their perfect maturity and their harvesting, and physical and moral education of the inhabitants of the area'.