Sir Henry Trentham Butlin, Bart. ... : obituary.

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1912
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    TTeb. 3, igi2.'J Samuel West was appointed on the Court of Governors of the Election of Conn.. Dr. W. Collier, Dr. F. A. Mott, Dr. H. D. Eolleston were elected councillors. AISID COLLEGES. rTHE British Medical Jouuxal 275 and Dr Jh’ports. A report was received and adopted from tJie Committee of Management, dated December 5th, 1911. The committee recommended that the following institutions should be added to the list of institutions recognized by the Examining Board in England for instruction in cliemistry and pliysics: Koval Dental Hospital of London, and Mill Hill School. TJie com- mittee also recommended that Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, South Africa, should be added to the list of mstitutions recognized by the board for instruction in chemistiy, physics, and biology. Certain addenda were made to the scheme of the new examination in psychological medicine, the chief of which were to the effect that the appointment of e.xaminers should be made by the Censors’ Board. Coinmnnicalio)i^. The following communications were received: (li From the Secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons of England rei^orting proceedings of the Council of that College on November 9th, December 14th, and .January 11th last. (2) From C. I. .^ckson, Esq., informing the College that the late Dr. Rughlings .Jackson bequeathed a portrait of himself to the College. (3) From Frank Glover, Esq., offering to the College a gold })encil-case formerly the propertv of Sir Henry Halford, .Bart., ITesidentof the College. (4) From Ernest M. W'ilks, Esq., informing the College that the late Sir Samuel Wilks, Bart., liequeathed to the College a jiortrait of himself and a gold cup I he above gifts were accepted, and the thanks of the College to be returned to the writers of the letters. (5i IG-om oidered to wnvo*.^ U, icuut^rs. oi rrum *'1® Doctors Wives Defence Movement, concerning certain effects of the Insurance Act. (6) From Dr. .James Kerr Jjove on behalf of the National Bureau for Promoting the Welfare of the Deaf, concerning the deliverv of proposed lectures. The matter was referred to the Censor's’ Board. The Inenmncc Hill. the College was formed to watch the interests of the bellows. Members, and Licentiates of the College under the provisions of the Insurance Act, with )>ower to confer with any other body established for similar puriioses should the Committee see fit to do so. The President adjourned the Comitia until Tuesday .January 30th. • ’ . Ap.toui{.\i;i) CojiiTi.v, c- f'n,Comitia was held on Tuesday, .January 30th, oil Thomas Barlow, Bart., K.C.V.O., President, being in the chair. lleports. A report was recei\ed from the Censors’ Board concernin'^ .academic dress for JAcentiates. The Board reported : “ That a search of the annals having been made, the JJoard are unable to find that a distinctive dress has ever been granted to f I'eport was received from the Reiiresentative of the College on the General Medical Council on the iiroceedings of the Council during its session in November last. The Insurance Act. After some formal business had been transacted the College proceeded to discuss a letter which had been received from the Rational Health Insurance Commission. The letter, which had been read to the College at its meeting on January 25th, W'as as fol low's : ' of those present on other matters of procedure in bringing the Act into operation w’hich the medical bodies may desire to bring forwijjAt. I am. Sir, Your obedient servani, R. W. Harris, „„ „ , 'f(tnt Seerctanj of the Joint Connniitec. The SeCTeiaKUr— Royal College of Physicians in London. Note. Section 58 of the Act is as follows : ‘ The Insurance Coinuii.s- sioners shall, as soon as may be after the passing of this Act. appoint an Advisory Committee for the purpose of giving the Insurance Com- missioners advice and assistance in connexion with the making and altering of regulations under this part of this Act, consisting of repre- sentatives of associations of employers and approved societies, of duly qualified medical practitioners who have personal experience of general practice, and of such otlier iiersons as the Commissioners ■ may appoint, of whom t*o at least shall be women. The follow’iug resolution was proposed and seconded ; That in view of the letter from the Insurance Commissioners the College should proceed to appoint Representatives to place before the Commissioners the resolutions of the College resiiectiug the Insurance Bill, in so far as these resolutions may not have been me rporated in the Insurance Act. To this an amendment was proposed and seconded as follows: That in view of the letter from the Insurance Commissioners the College should proceed to consider the invitation of th'e Nati-nal Insurance Commissioners to confer with them on the methods of putting the Act into operation. This was carried by a large majority; it thus became the substantive resolution, and as such was carried. The following series of suggestions were then put and approved of: 1. That the Insurance Act, as it stands, or even after any modillcation in it which the Act empowers the Insurance Com- inissioners to make, is not adapted to secure the benefits “of insurance against loss of health and the prevention and cure of sickness ’’ which are its stated purpose to provide, and that the co-operation of the medical profession in carrying out the o lera- tious of the Act is not possible under the Ac’ or under any modilications of it empowered to the Comm’ io ers without inflicting grave injury on the profession. T ere .e : 2. The College, while desr us of doing an in its power to promote the objects of the Act in reference to the health of the community, is not prepared to accept the invitation of the National Health I s nance Commissioners to the conference on February 2nd for the puiq oils therein stated of “seleclini of medical members of the A Ivisory ('in nittee” and for other mattars of procedure io b in ting the Act into operation. 3. Tliat the Colie e w’ould be happy to as>ist in any steps which may be tal en ,o (uepare an amen ling Act lor the improvement of the public health piovided that the interests of medical practitioners and medical science be safeguarded The following motion was then proposed and seconded : That the President be requested, with the assistance of such Follows as ho may nominate, to draw up and send a reply to the invitation of the .Joint Commissioners in accordance with, and giving the substance of, the resolutions. To this an amendment was proposed and seconded as follows: That the College accept the invitation to discuss the election of niedical inembers of the Advisory Committee, butts not at present in a position to discuss with the Commissioners any other matters of procedure in bringing the Act into operation. ’rhis amendment was lost by a large majority, and the original motion being put was carried. The President then dissolved the Comitia. CONJOINT BOARD IN SCOTLAND. The following candidates passed at the quarterly examinations, held in Edinburgh, concluded on January 22nd : National Health Insurance Commission, Whitehall, London, S.W., ,,, 24th Januarv, 1912. iSir, I • 1 Rational Health Insurance Commissioners have decided, lor their assistance in bringing the Insurance Act into operation, to take the earliest opportunity of personally con- ferring with representatives, widely selected, of the' chief sections of the community specially concerned. Conferences vvith representatives of prospective insured jierrsons have already taken place, and it is considered that the time has now arrived when it would ne of material assistance to the Commis- sioners to obtain, in a conference, suggestions from rejiresenta- tives ol tlio medical profession on certain important questions of liroceiliire preliminary to bringing the Act into operation. the National Health Insurance .Joint Committee and the Insurance Commissioners for England, Scotland, and Wales respectively propo.se accordingly to hold a conference on Friday, f'ebriiarv 2nd, with representatives of the medical professioii, and the Royal College of Physicians in London is invited to aiipoiiit two members to attend the conference, which will be iield at 3 p.m. A further communication will be addressed to you as to the jilace of meeting. A similar invitation is being addressed to the General Medical Council, the British Medical Association, and to other medical bodies. I ho point which it is specially desired to discuss relates to me selection of the medical members of tlib Advisory Com- mittee, by whoni the Comniissioners must be adsiscit in the iramnig of regulations in accordance with Section 58 of the Actj anil tlie (•oiniiiissioncrs will also be glad to hear the views First ExAvnxATioN.—\nua Grace Stott, ,1. W. Robb, O. (' Macdonald, H. Morley, .1. L. H' lidry, J. 1>. Fairley, A. f). Gorman, and J. B. Minford; and 9 passed in Physics, 3 in Biology, and 3 in Chemistry. Second Examination,I. Martin, J. B. Aickin, H. A. L, Guthrie, W. MacLeod, .1. Berry, A. F. Readdie, T. E. Lawson, W. S. O'Loughlin. One passed in Anatomyand 6 in Physiology. Third E.xamination.—R. Kaushosh, B. S. Raj, Maud Bennett, W. Bannatyne, P. C. Ray, L. Lazirus, O. W. Bateman, A. G. Cowper, C. Cosgrove, D. Bharauwaja, V. ,T. A. Wilson, C. L. I’atch, H. S. Dastur, R. Dorset, J. Williamson. Three passed in I’athology a id 6 in Materia Medica. Finai, E.xamination.—E. L. Maithcw, T. M. Crawford, S. E. Mangenie, G. I. Secluna, A. L. Edwards, R. N. Raja,, C. S. Owen, V. E. Field, II. W. Dunnet, C. C. Bose, A. M. Billings, H. S. W. Roberts, K. C. Mitter, H, G. Land erty, W. .1. H. Davis. Ten candidates passed in Medicine, 7 in Surgery, 13 in Midwiferj-, and 13 in Medical Jurisprudence. CONJOINT EXAMINATIONS IN IRELAND. Sessional E.rain.inations, Januanj, I91‘I. The following candidates have passed these examinatious: I’ irst I’njessinnal E.raniiiiaHnn.—W. K. Carew. D. J, Crowly, de C. Dodd, I). L. Kelly, D. Long, .1. II McKenna, P. O'B Nolan. Seconil. Prufessinnul Kxu.niinatUm.—J. F. fjyons. C. Murray. Third Vrnfes.sioniil ExaminaHon.—.t. D Cherry, J. Crowly,T. Gray, B..I. Henue^s^■. E, Harnett, F. ,T. L. Kennedy, M. 1’. Leonard, M. P. Lee, L. McK.'ever, D. Mullin, J. Saudys, B. Sieff. Final F,.rumination, .hniiiari/, JOTl. J’lie following candidates liave passed tills cxamin.ation : 'J’. Buckley, 11. E. Clarke, T. Dowzer, ,T. Geraty, B. Kelly, C. J.KclR-, W. O'Brien, P. 11. McDonough, P. McGrath, C. P. V. McCormack, P. Ross-'l'odd.