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THE NEW UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
THE NEW UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
32 and the Solicitor-General to be printed on Feb. 12tb,
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the back of it, and ordered find the following section :-
3. It shall be unlawful for a company to carry on the profession or business of a physician, surgeon, dentist, or midwife, and if any company contravenes this enactment it shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the contravention happens. We
hope to see the Bill with this section included safely through Parliament during the present session. It is true that the medical profession, which is well informed as to the dangerous and audacious attempts by companies to practise little shocked when the President of the the second reading of the Bill in the House Board of Trade on June 26th suggested, as we have already mentioned, that this section and another with reference to pharmacy might be left out of this Bill as being, though good in themselves, not really germane to it. This was a most disappointing line for Mr. RITCHIE to take at this advanced period of the session in regard to so admirable a part of his own Bill. We cannot doubt that he will reconsider this position and abandon it. He will admit that the chances of getting any such clause through as a separate measure at this late period of the session and after the passing of a Bill dealing generally with the abuses of the Companies Acts will be very slight. Fortunately we have his own authority for approving the principle of Section 3. He is the chief sponsor for the Bill, and in the debate on the second reading he admitted frankly that the amendment of the law which the section provides would be a beneficial alteration. His real object must be to make "companies"respected and to restrict their undertakings within limits that will make them safe and beneficial to the public. We do not gather that he has any strong objection to the clause remaining in the Bill. He said that the Standing Committee to which it has been referred must decide whether it should be proceeded with or struck out and relegated to some other Bill at some other time, but we are glad to learn as we write that the Committee has voted in favour of retaining the section. It would be a mere academic waste of time for the Government after this action of the Committee to argue further for leaving out the clause, the more so as, if we are rightly informed, Mr. RITCHIE has promised its promoters to urge the Lord Chancellor to re-introduce it as a separate measure if it be dropped out of the Bill. Mr. RITCHIE has already left this question practically to the Committee, and though its decision is against him it is only formally so. The decision is against him only in the sense of method and time and not in that of principle. It will gratify not only the General Medical Council and the medical profession, but all who have the reputation of companies at heart, to know that the principle involved in Section 3 has the approval of Mr. RITCHIE and the legal members of the Government and has found a place in the Companies Bill, which is likely to be one of the few measures of a memorable session dealing with domestic and peaceful questions. We venture to hope that he will cheerfully accept the vote of the Committee and give Section 3 the same Government help which he gives to the other portions of the Bill.
medicine,
was a
on
Annotations. "Ne quid nimis."
THE NEW UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. THE statutes and regulations made for the new University of London by the Commissioners appointed under the University of London Act of 1898 were passed in the House of Commons without opposition on Friday, June 29th. On July 2nd the foundation-stone of a new hall for the teaching of Economics and Political Science, which is a new faculty included in the University by the Commissioners, was laid by the Bishop of London in Clare Market almost on the line of the projected street from Holborn to the Strand. The site has been given by the London County Council, who will also contribute L2500 a year towards the expense of carrying on the work of the school, while Mr. Passmore Edwards has vested the sum of .B10,OOO in three trustees for the erection of the building. A new start has thus early been made for the future education of I the metropolis. We presume that the different bodies interested will soon begin to elect a Senate and that the constitution of the three standing committees-viz., the Academic Council, the Council for External Students, and the Board to Promote the Extension of University Teaching, will at once follow. The members of Convocation and the teachers of the University in its eight faculties of Theology, Arts, Laws, Music, Medicine, Science, Engineering, and Economics and Political Science, are qualified as members of the University by the fact that the statutes are now in force. It is most important to the medical students of London that the Senate of the new University should quickly come into existence, in order that arrangements may be made with the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, or either of them, to conduct jointly with the Senate examinations in such portions of the subjects included in the course of study for a medical as may be agreed upon. It is now 12 years since Lord Selborne’s Commission was appointed for the of the evidence for and against the formation of a University in London and to report thereon. The granting of medical degrees by the two Royal Colleges had been discussed by a joint committee and the movement for promoting a Teaching University had been thoroughly considered for some years before the appointment of the Royal Commission. We are naturally anxious that organisation of the new University should not be unduly delayed, for the medical profession has long waited for reform.
degree hearing Teaching
THE "LIGHT TREATMENT." MR. MALCOLM Morris has had under treatment by the Finsen electric-light method for more than two months several exceptionally severe cases of lupus vulgaris, and on Saturday afternoon last, June 30th, was able to give a very successful demonstration of the method to a number of The medical men interested in the new departure. premises which Mr. Morris has secured for the purpose of carrying out the "light treatment"are situated at lA, Berkeley-gardens, Campden-hill, and are fitted up with every requisite for applying the new method. The particular apparatus used at lA, Berkeley-gardens was procured by Mr. Morris from Copenhagen and has been in this country for nearly two years, but circumstances have prevented the apparatus being put into systematic use until some months ago. The apparatus required for the treatment by means of artificial light consists of three portions. First, a powerful electric
32 and the Solicitor-General to be printed on Feb. 12tb,
on we
the back of it, and ordered find the following section :-
3. It shall be unlawful for a company to carry on the profession or business of a physician, surgeon, dentist, or midwife, and if any company contravenes this enactment it shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the contravention happens. We
hope to see the Bill with this section included safely through Parliament during the present session. It is true that the medical profession, which is well informed as to the dangerous and audacious attempts by companies to practise little shocked when the President of the the second reading of the Bill in the House Board of Trade on June 26th suggested, as we have already mentioned, that this section and another with reference to pharmacy might be left out of this Bill as being, though good in themselves, not really germane to it. This was a most disappointing line for Mr. RITCHIE to take at this advanced period of the session in regard to so admirable a part of his own Bill. We cannot doubt that he will reconsider this position and abandon it. He will admit that the chances of getting any such clause through as a separate measure at this late period of the session and after the passing of a Bill dealing generally with the abuses of the Companies Acts will be very slight. Fortunately we have his own authority for approving the principle of Section 3. He is the chief sponsor for the Bill, and in the debate on the second reading he admitted frankly that the amendment of the law which the section provides would be a beneficial alteration. His real object must be to make "companies"respected and to restrict their undertakings within limits that will make them safe and beneficial to the public. We do not gather that he has any strong objection to the clause remaining in the Bill. He said that the Standing Committee to which it has been referred must decide whether it should be proceeded with or struck out and relegated to some other Bill at some other time, but we are glad to learn as we write that the Committee has voted in favour of retaining the section. It would be a mere academic waste of time for the Government after this action of the Committee to argue further for leaving out the clause, the more so as, if we are rightly informed, Mr. RITCHIE has promised its promoters to urge the Lord Chancellor to re-introduce it as a separate measure if it be dropped out of the Bill. Mr. RITCHIE has already left this question practically to the Committee, and though its decision is against him it is only formally so. The decision is against him only in the sense of method and time and not in that of principle. It will gratify not only the General Medical Council and the medical profession, but all who have the reputation of companies at heart, to know that the principle involved in Section 3 has the approval of Mr. RITCHIE and the legal members of the Government and has found a place in the Companies Bill, which is likely to be one of the few measures of a memorable session dealing with domestic and peaceful questions. We venture to hope that he will cheerfully accept the vote of the Committee and give Section 3 the same Government help which he gives to the other portions of the Bill.
medicine,
was a
on
Annotations. "Ne quid nimis."
THE NEW UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. THE statutes and regulations made for the new University of London by the Commissioners appointed under the University of London Act of 1898 were passed in the House of Commons without opposition on Friday, June 29th. On July 2nd the foundation-stone of a new hall for the teaching of Economics and Political Science, which is a new faculty included in the University by the Commissioners, was laid by the Bishop of London in Clare Market almost on the line of the projected street from Holborn to the Strand. The site has been given by the London County Council, who will also contribute L2500 a year towards the expense of carrying on the work of the school, while Mr. Passmore Edwards has vested the sum of .B10,OOO in three trustees for the erection of the building. A new start has thus early been made for the future education of I the metropolis. We presume that the different bodies interested will soon begin to elect a Senate and that the constitution of the three standing committees-viz., the Academic Council, the Council for External Students, and the Board to Promote the Extension of University Teaching, will at once follow. The members of Convocation and the teachers of the University in its eight faculties of Theology, Arts, Laws, Music, Medicine, Science, Engineering, and Economics and Political Science, are qualified as members of the University by the fact that the statutes are now in force. It is most important to the medical students of London that the Senate of the new University should quickly come into existence, in order that arrangements may be made with the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, or either of them, to conduct jointly with the Senate examinations in such portions of the subjects included in the course of study for a medical as may be agreed upon. It is now 12 years since Lord Selborne’s Commission was appointed for the of the evidence for and against the formation of a University in London and to report thereon. The granting of medical degrees by the two Royal Colleges had been discussed by a joint committee and the movement for promoting a Teaching University had been thoroughly considered for some years before the appointment of the Royal Commission. We are naturally anxious that organisation of the new University should not be unduly delayed, for the medical profession has long waited for reform.
degree hearing Teaching
THE "LIGHT TREATMENT." MR. MALCOLM Morris has had under treatment by the Finsen electric-light method for more than two months several exceptionally severe cases of lupus vulgaris, and on Saturday afternoon last, June 30th, was able to give a very successful demonstration of the method to a number of The medical men interested in the new departure. premises which Mr. Morris has secured for the purpose of carrying out the "light treatment"are situated at lA, Berkeley-gardens, Campden-hill, and are fitted up with every requisite for applying the new method. The particular apparatus used at lA, Berkeley-gardens was procured by Mr. Morris from Copenhagen and has been in this country for nearly two years, but circumstances have prevented the apparatus being put into systematic use until some months ago. The apparatus required for the treatment by means of artificial light consists of three portions. First, a powerful electric