Three reports by the joint deputation of the Society of Apothecaries and the National Association of General Practitioners, appointed to confer with the Secretary of State on the subject of the incorporation of the General Practitioners in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Three reports by the joint deputation of the Society of Apothecaries and the National Association of General Practitioners, appointed to confer with the Secretary of State on the subject of the incorporation of the General Practitioners in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    was found that the alterations which had been in- troduced, failed to carry out the terms of arrange- ment to which the Deputation had assented. The De- putation, however, ascertained that the discrepancies between the Bill as amended and the terms of the arrangement, as announced by the Deputation, were unintentional, and that they would be corrected on the re-introduction of the Bill in the following Session. The position, therefore, in which the Deputation found themselves at the close of the last Session, as regards the issue of their negotiations with the Government, was this: that having assented to certain terms of arrangement as the basis of a general measure of Medical Reform, such terms receive the sanction of the Home Secretary, and are by him announced to the House of Commons. The Medical Bill is amended in Committee, and ordered to be printed. The Bill as actually amend- ed, is found to differ from the terms assented to by the Deputation; but the Deputation are enabled to satisfy themselves that the variance is undesigned. Thus situated, the Deputation, on the approach of the present Session, addressed the following Letter to Sir James Graham :— (( Sir, “ 44, Parliament Street, “January 8th, 1846. “ As the Deputation appointed with au- thority on behalf of the National Association of General Practitioners to accept such a Charter