Report of the Executive Committee on the constitution and working of the General Medical Council : memorandum by Dr. Pitman and Sir James Paget : memorandum by Dr. Quain : and appendix containing documents in regard to the Council.

  • General Medical Council. Executive Committee.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Report of the Executive Committee on the constitution and working of the General Medical Council : memorandum by Dr. Pitman and Sir James Paget : memorandum by Dr. Quain : and appendix containing documents in regard to the Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    certain specified fnnctions,—such, for examples, as to cause to be printed and published a Pharmacopceia, for the use of all persons practising medicine in the United Kingdom, and to make by-laws directing the Councils to institute examina- tions and appoint Examiners for various purposes (as, to wit, for examining persons intending to carry on the business of a Chemist and Druggist); and these by-laws were to be binding on every Member of the Senate, and on the said Councils and their several Councillors, and on others. In connexion with these Councils a College of Medicine of the United Kingdom was to be founded, whereof all Medical Councillors were to be ex-officio Fellows for the term of their natural lives, unless they should either resign or be expelled from the College. This specimen of the attempted medical legislation of forty years ago, the parent of all subsequent Bills on the subject, is a long and curious document, extending over 34 closely-printed folio pages. Powers and duties of Senate. College of Medicine of the United Kingdom. 2. In a Bill of date February 5, 1841, brought in under the auspices of Mr. Hawes, Mr. Ewart, and Mr. Hutton—repeated in February 26,1841, with no alteration as to the respect in question, in a Bill whereon Mr. Warjbueton's name is added to the three on the former Bill—it was proposed that 20 councillors should be elected every three years, in each division of the United Kingdom, in the same way as in Bill No. 1 (save that the former Bill required the voting papers to be given up personally, but by the provisions of this Bill they might be either delivered personally or sent by post) ; that of the Council in its own division of the kingdom, the Medical Authorities now existing (excepting only the Univer- sities of Durham and the Queen's University in Ireland) should each, if they shall think fit, elect and appoint one fit person to be a member ; and that these three several Councils should each elect by ballot, every five years, three persons to form collectively one body, entitled The Medical Senate of Great Britain and Ireland, whereto were fco be assigned certain powers and duties defined in the Bill, similar to those set forth in the first Bill. This Bill, it may be remarked, contained certain provisions, with distinct schedules, for empowering the Registrars to grant licenses to carry on the trade and business of a Chemist and Druggist, and to issue certificates to any persons who at the time of the passing of this Act shall be practising medicine as Dentists or Cuppers. Three separate and independent Councils, to contain, respectively, 26 Members for England, 27 for Scot- land, and 24 for Ireland. Medical Senate of Great Bri- tain and Ireland, to consist of 9 Members. Licenses to be granted to Chemists and Drug- gists. and to Dentists or Cuppers.