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1145 Dr. KIDD moved, and Mr. MACNAMARA seconded, that Dr. HAUGHTON said that the Scotch professors attached extraordinary value to the number of lectures, and he the communication be received and entered in the minutes, did not think that the Council should hastily interfere with but the motion was negatived. This concluded the business of the Council. vested interests. Sir W. TURNER said that there was no question of vested interests in the matter. Dr. GLOVER suggested that the queetion should be referred back to the Education Committee with a request that they would report definitely upon it. It was their duty to discuss the question, but they had shunted it, and it was far too important a matter to be brought up at the BAG FOR MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH. end of the Council’s sitting. MESSRS. FERRIS & Co. of Bristol have lately made at my Dr. ATTHILL supported Dr. Glover’s suggestion. Dr. STRUTHERS said he was willing to accept the sug- suggestion a bag which, I think, cannot but prove of great gestion of Dr. Glover, as it was impossible then to discuss service to those rural medical officers of health who, like the question in the way it deserved. Dr. Kidd had under- myself, have sometimes to travel long distances on their stated the facts with regard to lectures. He hoped that the matter would be referred back to the committee with a general expression of approval. (" No, no.") Mr. CARTER hoped that a general expression of approval would be given. The best proof of the great truths undermedicine and surgery was to be found in the fact that students survived 1300 lectures and still knew something about their profession. Sir J. SIMON said it was impossible to pass a definite vote of approval without discussing the subject, but it was evident that the Council was strongly in favour of the reforms suggested. He hoped that the committee would accept the reference as proposed, and bring up a report at the next meeting. tours of inspection. It is extremely light and portable, and Sir W. TURNER said that the number of lectures at the of neat appearance, as will be seen by the accompanying Scotch University was a statutory number, but in some engravings. It contains the necessary tests for all impurities cases an examination could be substituted for a lecture. The proposals that the winter courses of lectures should likely to be found-such as ammonia, nitrates, nitrites, lead consist of not more than fifty and the summer courses of not more than thirty, and that the period of study for a registrable qualification should be five years, were then referred to the Education Committee, with a request that the committee would complete its report on the subjects remitted to it in May, 1888. Mr. CARTER moved: ’ That future issues of the Medical Register should be so printed as to indicate, in Table G and in the abbreviations of the body of the work, that licentiates of the Society of Apothecaries of London who were placed upon the Register after June 30th, 1887, are licentiates in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery." He said that licentiates of the Society of Apothecaries had found a real difficulty in persuading members of boards of guardians to whom they were offering themselves that they He were qualified to practise Surgery as well as Medicine. had recently consulted the legal adviser of the Society on and chlorides,-with Florence flask, test-tubes, pipettes, the subject, and he was of opinion that a short abbreviation C. C. measure, and spirit lamp. I have also written simple in the body of the Register would meet all the difficulties and brief directions for qualitative analysis to be enclosed of the case; and the legal adviser of the Council had H. GEARY DYER, that on which his belief the was one suggestion expressed Medical Officer of Health, Ringwood Rural the Council might safely act. Sanitary District. Mr. COLLINS seconded the motion. Dr. HUMPHRY thought that all the necessary information PRESENTATIONS.—On Monday, June 3rd, the staff was at present given in Table G, and that if anything further were added with regard to the licentiates of the and nurses of the Wilton Fever Hospital, Salford, made Society of Apothecaries, it might throw a doubt on the a presentation to Dr. John Tatham, B.A., who has been qualifications of the licentiates of other bodies. appointed medical officer of health to the city of Manchester. Sir J. SIMON moved as an amendment : ’ That in future Dr. Tatham has been medical superintendent of the Fever issues of the Medical Register there be inserted, as an Hospital since its opening in 1876. The present consisted addition to the explanations now prefixed to the body of of a large photograph of the staff, taken by Mr. Lafosse, of the Register, an explanation to the effect that all persons Manchester, a spirit case, and a gold bangle for Mrs. whose registration (under whatever diploma or diplomas) is Tatham, acccompanied by an address.-At the dated on or after June 30th, 1887, are persons legally twenty-second annual meeting of the East London Hospital qualified for the practice of Medicine, Surgery, and Mid- for Children, the President, on behalf of the governors, wifery. presented to Mr. J. S. Battams, M.R.C.S., the resident Dr. QUAIN seconded the amendment, which was agreed to. medical officer, a purse of 100 guineas, in acknowledgment It was then resolved, on the motion of Dr. STRUTHERS, of his valuable services during a period of eight years.seconded by Sir WILLIAM TURNER : " That it be remitted Dr. H. Malet, of Darlington-street, Wolverhampton, to the Education Committee to inquire and report to a sub- medical officer of health for the borough, has been presented sequent meeting of the Council as to how far the regula- by the members of the Sanitary Committee of the Town tions of the several examining bodies in regard to profes- Council, on the occasion of his marriage, with a handsome sional education are in accordance with the recommenda- Chippendale arm-chair, as a token of their good wishes on tions of the Council as revised to June lst, 1888 ; and that the auspicious event.-At the recent annual meeting of the the Registrar apply to the examining bodies for any infor- Bradford Medico-Chirurgical Society, Dr. Goyder was premation the committee may desire." A similar reference sented by the members with his portrait painted in oils. was made to the Examination Committee with regard to the The presentation was made in recognition of services exregulations concerning professional examination. tending over twenty-five years in connexion with the Society, A communication was read from the Ledwich and whose interests, especially during the earlier years of its Carmichael Schools of Medicine in Dublin. existence,Dr. Goyder’s efforts had done so much to promote.

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