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1 enactment of such measures as the foregoing would not council and to provide that all the members should be the elected by the whole profession throughout the province. (only prevent the spread of the disease (that is taking the The Bill is now before a special committee of the House onview of the majority as to its contagiousness) but would iimpart a feeling of confidence among the general public. which all the medical and legal members are serving.
The South- Western Medical Association of Manitoba. -Reforms in the New York City Hospitals. Some months ago the revised charter of the city of New Two or three months ago the members of the profession in the south-west part of the province of Manitoba met and York provided that the charity hospitals, Bellevue, Harlem, organised themselves into an association with the aboveGouveneur, and Fordham should pass from the control of title. Out of 70 practitioners in the district it speaks well the Charities Department-under which management they for the medical body when it is stated that 67 of these imme-have been for many years-to a board of trustees consisting diately signed the roll, and there are good prospects of the of seven members. With the change of the city administraremaining three doing likewise in the near future. The tion the new board appointed by Mayor Low has entered objects of this organisation are set forth cas follows in a upon its duties. The city institutions will be subjected to circular letter issued to the profession in Manitoba. Insur- thorough reforms and the existing methods of management will be very considerably altered. Bellevue Hospital, by far ance companies will have to pay$5 for an examination, lodges with no insurance$2, and lodges with insurance the largest and most important of these institutions, will 83. Lodge practice is discountenanced. A provisional tariff naturally receive the lion’s share of the new board’s attenof fees has been fixed and all will endeavour to adhere to tion. The insane pavilion of Bellevue will be first taken in it as closely as possible. The organisation has also decided hand and it will be converted into what will practically be that it will be better in the interests of the profession if all a temporary insane asylum. The alcoholic ward, so far as render their accounts at least quarterly. A strong effort will management is concerned, will be swept and garnished, be made to bring the whole profession in the province of and the nurses and attendants throughout the establishment will be paid fair wages. The statement is also made that a Manitoba into the organisation. large appropriation of money will shortly be aked for, and Ontario -Deat7i-roll in 1901. that if the request be granted Bellevue will be rebuilt. It A statement recently issued by the Board of Health of the seems that the time is really now approaching when New province gives the details regarding the deaths from con- York will have charity hospitals worthy of her position as tagious diseases occurring in 1901, 90 per cent. of the the most important and the richest city of the United States. population reporting. The total deaths from all causes number 25,736, or 13-1 per 1000 as compared with 25,382 Osteopathy in New York State, This method of treating disease has become vastly popular occurring in 1900. Tuberculosis caused more deaths than any other contagious disease-viz., 2286. This was not so in many parts of the United States, thus once more showing large as in 1900, when the total was 2360. June was the the gullibility of the human race. In some States the healthiest month with a total of 1608 deaths ; March showed practice of osteopathy has been placed on a par with the heaviest death-roll with 2525 deaths. Scarlet fever medical practice and to its professors have been granted claimed 209; measles, 120 ; diphtheria, 512 ; whooping- all privileges and powers accorded to the men who hold a cough, 112 ; and typhoid fever, 345. The mortality from degree in medicine. Aided by the backing of influential typhoid fever in 1900 was 550. persons in New York State, the osteopathic fraternity have for some considerable time been making determined and in Ontario. Small-pox strenuous efforts to be placed upon an equal footing with It begins to look as if Ontario was in for a big epidemic graduates in medicine and surgery. A Bill to this effect was the disease is well under of small-pox. Although pretty introduced into the New York State Legislature in the precontrol in the unorganised districts amongst lumber camps, The sent session. set forth their qualifications where some and construction 60 camps, &c., physicians to be given the rightosteopaths mining to treat disease of all kinds and to sign have recently been appointed by the managers, the older death certificates. They stated that everything is taught in and better settled sections of the province are now being colleges that all medical colleges teach except attacked ; and the last statement issued from the Board of osteopathic materia medica. Naturally the medical profession opposed Health shows that there were 629 cases in the province in the passage of such a Bill with all its might and showed up the month of January. These patients are scattered over of the fallacies of osteopathy. For instance, it was 28 counties with 87 centres for infection. Ontario is pretty many out that while the osteopathic colleges pretended pointed the American Union are bad, but many of the States of to teach all branches of medical science except materia much worse. medica, the time devoted to this teaching made of the whole Toronto, Feb. 4th. affair a complete farce. The whole osteopathic course in its prominent colleges is only two years, and the time given to the teaching of such important subjects as anatomy and NEW YORK. physiology is so short as to be utterly absurd. It is therefore gratifying to be able to announce that the Bill to place (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) osteopathy upon the same plane as regular medicine has failed to pass in New York State. again America. Leprosy Bill for
SEXATOR PLATT of New York has introduced into the National Legislature a Bill to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy, some of the provisions of which aieas follows :-The appointment of a leprosy commissioner to reside at New York or San Francisco. with a yearly salary of$5000 (£1000) ; the setting aside of a mile square for a national leper home, the site to be chosen by a leprosy board ; the appropriation of $50,000 (.610,000) to erect suitable buildings for the habitation of lepers in the United States, not including Hawaii, Porto Rico, Cuba, or the Philippines ; the transportation of lepers who are unable to care for themselves to the national leper home ; the injunction of steamship companies or individual vessels or railroads from bringing to the United States any leper or from accepting any immigrant from any of the countries known to be leprous without a special certificate ; the strict supervision for seven years of immigrants of leprous families, though they themselves be .free from the disease ; the deportation of any leper who, despite all precautions, manages to enter the United States ; no discrimination to be made on behalf of Americans who contract the disease in a foreign country ; the Marine Hospital Service of the Treasury Department to have full charge of the National Leper Home. There are probably more cases of leprosy in the United States than is generally believed, and
Feb. 18th.
meeting of Axbridge Board of Guardians held on Feb. 18th it was reported that during the half-year ended June, 1901, the births of 502 children were registered, 272 successful vaccinations were performed, 85 certificates of conscientious objection to vaccination were granted, and 43 children died unvaccinated. In Weston-super-Mare, the figures for which are included in the above returns, 232 births were registered, and only 89 children were successfully vaccinated. VACCINATION STATISTICS.-At the
the
TORBAY meeting of
HOSPITAL,
TORQUAY.-The
annual
the governors of this hospital was held on The medical report stated that 401 in-patients Feb. 20th. had been admitted during 1901, compared with 389 in the preceding year. 706 out-patients had been treated, exclusive of 628 ophthalmic cases. In the provident dispensary department 125 new cases had been admitted. The financial statement showed that the total expenditure amounted to £2325, and that there was an unfavourable balance of .S57. The report added that at the closing of the Syracusa Convalescent Home the committee had presented the hospital with the Roentgen ray apparatus.
THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.
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Council with certain information concerning the examinations of the Board in the preliminary subjects of medical
THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF study. MEDICAL EDUCATION AND The special session REGISTRATION. Feb. 26th.
-
concluded its work
on
Wednesday
afternoon,
A
SPECIAL
session of the General Medical Council
was
SPECIAL SESSION.
Tuesday last, Feb. 25th. The President of the TUESDAY, FEB. 25TH. Council, Sir William Turner, K.C.B., presided over a full The special session of the Council was opened in the meeting of the Council, including the three new members, Council Chamber, Oxford-street, Sir WILLIAM TURNER, Dr. D. W. Finlay, Dr. J. Y. Mackay, and Mr. George Jackson. K.C.B., President of the Council, occupying the chair. Introduction of Nem M(,7tibers. The following new members were introduced-namely, Dr. The session was summoned, it will be remembered, to David White Finlay, representative of the University of consider the report of a committee appointed to inquire into Aberdeen; Dr. John Yule Mackay, representative of the Unithe differences existing between certain licensing bodies and versity of St. Andrews; and Mr. George Jackson, F.R.C.S., the Council regarding the courses and conditions of medical one of the recently elected Direct Repiesentatives for Dr. Finlay and Dr. Mackay were introduced by study. But when the Council found itself meeting on England. Sir William Gairdner and Mr. Jackson by Mr. George Brown. the eve of the second of the Midwives Bill it
opened
on
reading rightly decided to consider ceeding to the special business.
THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. this measure before proThe PRESIDENT said : Since the last meeting of the As a result the Council Council several changes have taken place in its personnel. to the conclusion to adhere came to its previous As a result of the election of two Direct Representatives resolutions in regard to the Midwives Registration Bill, of the profession in England the seat for so many years and decided, as we foreshadowed in our leading article occupied by Dr. Glover, whose impending retirement on last week, that the measure read in the House of Commons account of health I in.timated in November, has been filled for the second time on Feb. 26th was not in accordance with by the election of Mr. George Jackson, and Mr. George Brown has again been chosen. Dr. William Bruce has also its resolutions. The Council therefore requested Sir John been re-elected by the registered practitioners resident in Batty Tuke, in the event of the Bill being read a second Scotland. Dr. Pettigrew has retired from the representatime, to communicate its views to the Grand Committee on tion of his University. With one exception he had occupied Law. As all our readers know, the Bill was read for the a seat at our Council Board for a greater length of time second time on Wednesday last without a division, in spite than any other member. Originally chosen in 1877 to represent the Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews, of the efforts of Sir John Batty Tuke, who moved its and 10 years afterwards as the representative of rejection, of Sir Walter Foster, Mr. Ambrose, Mr. T. P. . St. Andrews, when the Act of 1886 gave to the latter O’Connor, and others. University the power to elect its own member, he has been in continuous occupation of his seat for 25 years. Dr. Dr. D. C. McVail’s committee then presented its report, to Pettigrew took a strong personal interest in the work of the Council. We shall miss his genial presence, and the consider which the special session had been summoned. The I experience which he gained during so many years in the interesting observations and conclusions of this committee, management of our affairs. Dr. John Yule Mackay, Principal which we reproduce in full, should be studied by all our of University College, Dundee, which is now a constituent readers. Certain points in medical education are summarised part of the University of St. Andrews, has been appointed in a clear and comprehensive manner in the report. Two his successor. Dr. Robert William Reid, who for five years the University of Aberdeen, and who during his opinions relating to the subject from the counsel to the represented of office took an active interest in the subjects which period General Medical Council, Mr. Muir Mackenzie, were entered came under the consideration of the Council, more especially upon the minutes and will be found in our columns. In in the work of the Education Committee, has been succeeded both Mr. Muir Mackenzie advises the Council that it has by Dr. David White Finlay, professor of medicine in that The Council welcome to their board the new jurisdiction over the different courses of study to be gone university. and the re-elected members. The Council will recollect through by candidates for registration. Dr. McVail then that on Dec. 3rd of last year it was resolved to appoint a ,urged the adoption of the report by the Council, upon which committee to report on the differences that exist between would follow recourse to the Privy Council if the licensing certain licensing bodies on the one hand and the General ’bodies in question continued to differ from the view of the Medical Council on the other regarding the courses and ,General Medical Council. Dr. Norman Moore, after pointing conditions of study and the recognition of the institutions and schools in which the required courses may be taken, and out that he and Mr. Bryant had sat on the committee not as that a special meeting of the Council to consider the report representatives of the English Royal Colleges but as members should take place on the fourth Tuesday in February of this of the General Medical Council, advocated an inquiry by the year. This is the reason why we have been called together at - Council into the particular courses and institutions con- this unusual period. The committee’s report has been for some sidered to be at fault before the Privy Council was days in your hands, and members of Council, in view of the momentous issues which have been raised in it, will, I feel .approached. sure, have given it their close attention. It is, I have no doubt, in the knowledge of all of you that a Midwives Bill The rest of the debate on the medical curriculum fore- has been introduced into the House of Commons during the shadowed that when a division was taken the report present session and is to be read a second time during this of the Special Committee would be adopted ; but at week. I instructed our Registrar to obtain copies of the it was printed, and to forward one to each the same time the gravity of referring the matter to Bill as soon as Member of Council. You will observe from the programme of the Privy Council on the ground of the "insufficiencyof business that a copy of the Bill has been sent officially In the end by the Lord President of the Privy Council for our informathe Royal Colleges was fully recognised. ,the Council voted by 17 to 4 to adopt the report as tion. As the consideration of a Midwives Bill formed no part far as page 53 "-i.e., as far as Dr. McVail’s motion had of the business specified in the resolution of December last by reference. A motion by Dr. MacAlister, seconded by Dr. which this meeting was fixed it will be necessary, in accordance with Order 1 (3), should the Council desire to McVail, was in the end unanimously agreed to, which put discuss thisStanding Bill and to offer an opinion on it, that a motion ,off appeal to the Privy Council, by requiring the Conjoint to this effect should be agreed to by the Council before Examining Board in England to furnish the General Medical any discussion can take place. I shall therefore put to the
very
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1 enactment of such measures as the foregoing would not council and to provide that all the members should be the elected by the whole profession throughout the province. (only prevent the spread of the disease (that is taking the The Bill is now before a special committee of the House onview of the majority as to its contagiousness) but would iimpart a feeling of confidence among the general public. which all the medical and legal members are serving.
The South- Western Medical Association of Manitoba. -Reforms in the New York City Hospitals. Some months ago the revised charter of the city of New Two or three months ago the members of the profession in the south-west part of the province of Manitoba met and York provided that the charity hospitals, Bellevue, Harlem, organised themselves into an association with the aboveGouveneur, and Fordham should pass from the control of title. Out of 70 practitioners in the district it speaks well the Charities Department-under which management they for the medical body when it is stated that 67 of these imme-have been for many years-to a board of trustees consisting diately signed the roll, and there are good prospects of the of seven members. With the change of the city administraremaining three doing likewise in the near future. The tion the new board appointed by Mayor Low has entered objects of this organisation are set forth cas follows in a upon its duties. The city institutions will be subjected to circular letter issued to the profession in Manitoba. Insur- thorough reforms and the existing methods of management will be very considerably altered. Bellevue Hospital, by far ance companies will have to pay$5 for an examination, lodges with no insurance$2, and lodges with insurance the largest and most important of these institutions, will 83. Lodge practice is discountenanced. A provisional tariff naturally receive the lion’s share of the new board’s attenof fees has been fixed and all will endeavour to adhere to tion. The insane pavilion of Bellevue will be first taken in it as closely as possible. The organisation has also decided hand and it will be converted into what will practically be that it will be better in the interests of the profession if all a temporary insane asylum. The alcoholic ward, so far as render their accounts at least quarterly. A strong effort will management is concerned, will be swept and garnished, be made to bring the whole profession in the province of and the nurses and attendants throughout the establishment will be paid fair wages. The statement is also made that a Manitoba into the organisation. large appropriation of money will shortly be aked for, and Ontario -Deat7i-roll in 1901. that if the request be granted Bellevue will be rebuilt. It A statement recently issued by the Board of Health of the seems that the time is really now approaching when New province gives the details regarding the deaths from con- York will have charity hospitals worthy of her position as tagious diseases occurring in 1901, 90 per cent. of the the most important and the richest city of the United States. population reporting. The total deaths from all causes number 25,736, or 13-1 per 1000 as compared with 25,382 Osteopathy in New York State, This method of treating disease has become vastly popular occurring in 1900. Tuberculosis caused more deaths than any other contagious disease-viz., 2286. This was not so in many parts of the United States, thus once more showing large as in 1900, when the total was 2360. June was the the gullibility of the human race. In some States the healthiest month with a total of 1608 deaths ; March showed practice of osteopathy has been placed on a par with the heaviest death-roll with 2525 deaths. Scarlet fever medical practice and to its professors have been granted claimed 209; measles, 120 ; diphtheria, 512 ; whooping- all privileges and powers accorded to the men who hold a cough, 112 ; and typhoid fever, 345. The mortality from degree in medicine. Aided by the backing of influential typhoid fever in 1900 was 550. persons in New York State, the osteopathic fraternity have for some considerable time been making determined and in Ontario. Small-pox strenuous efforts to be placed upon an equal footing with It begins to look as if Ontario was in for a big epidemic graduates in medicine and surgery. A Bill to this effect was the disease is well under of small-pox. Although pretty introduced into the New York State Legislature in the precontrol in the unorganised districts amongst lumber camps, The sent session. set forth their qualifications where some and construction 60 camps, &c., physicians to be given the rightosteopaths mining to treat disease of all kinds and to sign have recently been appointed by the managers, the older death certificates. They stated that everything is taught in and better settled sections of the province are now being colleges that all medical colleges teach except attacked ; and the last statement issued from the Board of osteopathic materia medica. Naturally the medical profession opposed Health shows that there were 629 cases in the province in the passage of such a Bill with all its might and showed up the month of January. These patients are scattered over of the fallacies of osteopathy. For instance, it was 28 counties with 87 centres for infection. Ontario is pretty many out that while the osteopathic colleges pretended pointed the American Union are bad, but many of the States of to teach all branches of medical science except materia much worse. medica, the time devoted to this teaching made of the whole Toronto, Feb. 4th. affair a complete farce. The whole osteopathic course in its prominent colleges is only two years, and the time given to the teaching of such important subjects as anatomy and NEW YORK. physiology is so short as to be utterly absurd. It is therefore gratifying to be able to announce that the Bill to place (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) osteopathy upon the same plane as regular medicine has failed to pass in New York State. again America. Leprosy Bill for
SEXATOR PLATT of New York has introduced into the National Legislature a Bill to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy, some of the provisions of which aieas follows :-The appointment of a leprosy commissioner to reside at New York or San Francisco. with a yearly salary of$5000 (£1000) ; the setting aside of a mile square for a national leper home, the site to be chosen by a leprosy board ; the appropriation of $50,000 (.610,000) to erect suitable buildings for the habitation of lepers in the United States, not including Hawaii, Porto Rico, Cuba, or the Philippines ; the transportation of lepers who are unable to care for themselves to the national leper home ; the injunction of steamship companies or individual vessels or railroads from bringing to the United States any leper or from accepting any immigrant from any of the countries known to be leprous without a special certificate ; the strict supervision for seven years of immigrants of leprous families, though they themselves be .free from the disease ; the deportation of any leper who, despite all precautions, manages to enter the United States ; no discrimination to be made on behalf of Americans who contract the disease in a foreign country ; the Marine Hospital Service of the Treasury Department to have full charge of the National Leper Home. There are probably more cases of leprosy in the United States than is generally believed, and
Feb. 18th.
meeting of Axbridge Board of Guardians held on Feb. 18th it was reported that during the half-year ended June, 1901, the births of 502 children were registered, 272 successful vaccinations were performed, 85 certificates of conscientious objection to vaccination were granted, and 43 children died unvaccinated. In Weston-super-Mare, the figures for which are included in the above returns, 232 births were registered, and only 89 children were successfully vaccinated. VACCINATION STATISTICS.-At the
the
TORBAY meeting of
HOSPITAL,
TORQUAY.-The
annual
the governors of this hospital was held on The medical report stated that 401 in-patients Feb. 20th. had been admitted during 1901, compared with 389 in the preceding year. 706 out-patients had been treated, exclusive of 628 ophthalmic cases. In the provident dispensary department 125 new cases had been admitted. The financial statement showed that the total expenditure amounted to £2325, and that there was an unfavourable balance of .S57. The report added that at the closing of the Syracusa Convalescent Home the committee had presented the hospital with the Roentgen ray apparatus.
THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.
626
Council with certain information concerning the examinations of the Board in the preliminary subjects of medical
THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF study. MEDICAL EDUCATION AND The special session REGISTRATION. Feb. 26th.
-
concluded its work
on
Wednesday
afternoon,
A
SPECIAL
session of the General Medical Council
was
SPECIAL SESSION.
Tuesday last, Feb. 25th. The President of the TUESDAY, FEB. 25TH. Council, Sir William Turner, K.C.B., presided over a full The special session of the Council was opened in the meeting of the Council, including the three new members, Council Chamber, Oxford-street, Sir WILLIAM TURNER, Dr. D. W. Finlay, Dr. J. Y. Mackay, and Mr. George Jackson. K.C.B., President of the Council, occupying the chair. Introduction of Nem M(,7tibers. The following new members were introduced-namely, Dr. The session was summoned, it will be remembered, to David White Finlay, representative of the University of consider the report of a committee appointed to inquire into Aberdeen; Dr. John Yule Mackay, representative of the Unithe differences existing between certain licensing bodies and versity of St. Andrews; and Mr. George Jackson, F.R.C.S., the Council regarding the courses and conditions of medical one of the recently elected Direct Repiesentatives for Dr. Finlay and Dr. Mackay were introduced by study. But when the Council found itself meeting on England. Sir William Gairdner and Mr. Jackson by Mr. George Brown. the eve of the second of the Midwives Bill it
opened
on
reading rightly decided to consider ceeding to the special business.
THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. this measure before proThe PRESIDENT said : Since the last meeting of the As a result the Council Council several changes have taken place in its personnel. to the conclusion to adhere came to its previous As a result of the election of two Direct Representatives resolutions in regard to the Midwives Registration Bill, of the profession in England the seat for so many years and decided, as we foreshadowed in our leading article occupied by Dr. Glover, whose impending retirement on last week, that the measure read in the House of Commons account of health I in.timated in November, has been filled for the second time on Feb. 26th was not in accordance with by the election of Mr. George Jackson, and Mr. George Brown has again been chosen. Dr. William Bruce has also its resolutions. The Council therefore requested Sir John been re-elected by the registered practitioners resident in Batty Tuke, in the event of the Bill being read a second Scotland. Dr. Pettigrew has retired from the representatime, to communicate its views to the Grand Committee on tion of his University. With one exception he had occupied Law. As all our readers know, the Bill was read for the a seat at our Council Board for a greater length of time second time on Wednesday last without a division, in spite than any other member. Originally chosen in 1877 to represent the Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews, of the efforts of Sir John Batty Tuke, who moved its and 10 years afterwards as the representative of rejection, of Sir Walter Foster, Mr. Ambrose, Mr. T. P. . St. Andrews, when the Act of 1886 gave to the latter O’Connor, and others. University the power to elect its own member, he has been in continuous occupation of his seat for 25 years. Dr. Dr. D. C. McVail’s committee then presented its report, to Pettigrew took a strong personal interest in the work of the Council. We shall miss his genial presence, and the consider which the special session had been summoned. The I experience which he gained during so many years in the interesting observations and conclusions of this committee, management of our affairs. Dr. John Yule Mackay, Principal which we reproduce in full, should be studied by all our of University College, Dundee, which is now a constituent readers. Certain points in medical education are summarised part of the University of St. Andrews, has been appointed in a clear and comprehensive manner in the report. Two his successor. Dr. Robert William Reid, who for five years the University of Aberdeen, and who during his opinions relating to the subject from the counsel to the represented of office took an active interest in the subjects which period General Medical Council, Mr. Muir Mackenzie, were entered came under the consideration of the Council, more especially upon the minutes and will be found in our columns. In in the work of the Education Committee, has been succeeded both Mr. Muir Mackenzie advises the Council that it has by Dr. David White Finlay, professor of medicine in that The Council welcome to their board the new jurisdiction over the different courses of study to be gone university. and the re-elected members. The Council will recollect through by candidates for registration. Dr. McVail then that on Dec. 3rd of last year it was resolved to appoint a ,urged the adoption of the report by the Council, upon which committee to report on the differences that exist between would follow recourse to the Privy Council if the licensing certain licensing bodies on the one hand and the General ’bodies in question continued to differ from the view of the Medical Council on the other regarding the courses and ,General Medical Council. Dr. Norman Moore, after pointing conditions of study and the recognition of the institutions and schools in which the required courses may be taken, and out that he and Mr. Bryant had sat on the committee not as that a special meeting of the Council to consider the report representatives of the English Royal Colleges but as members should take place on the fourth Tuesday in February of this of the General Medical Council, advocated an inquiry by the year. This is the reason why we have been called together at - Council into the particular courses and institutions con- this unusual period. The committee’s report has been for some sidered to be at fault before the Privy Council was days in your hands, and members of Council, in view of the momentous issues which have been raised in it, will, I feel .approached. sure, have given it their close attention. It is, I have no doubt, in the knowledge of all of you that a Midwives Bill The rest of the debate on the medical curriculum fore- has been introduced into the House of Commons during the shadowed that when a division was taken the report present session and is to be read a second time during this of the Special Committee would be adopted ; but at week. I instructed our Registrar to obtain copies of the it was printed, and to forward one to each the same time the gravity of referring the matter to Bill as soon as Member of Council. You will observe from the programme of the Privy Council on the ground of the "insufficiencyof business that a copy of the Bill has been sent officially In the end by the Lord President of the Privy Council for our informathe Royal Colleges was fully recognised. ,the Council voted by 17 to 4 to adopt the report as tion. As the consideration of a Midwives Bill formed no part far as page 53 "-i.e., as far as Dr. McVail’s motion had of the business specified in the resolution of December last by reference. A motion by Dr. MacAlister, seconded by Dr. which this meeting was fixed it will be necessary, in accordance with Order 1 (3), should the Council desire to McVail, was in the end unanimously agreed to, which put discuss thisStanding Bill and to offer an opinion on it, that a motion ,off appeal to the Privy Council, by requiring the Conjoint to this effect should be agreed to by the Council before Examining Board in England to furnish the General Medical any discussion can take place. I shall therefore put to the
very
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