Shipowners and ships' surgeons : including Truth's article (24th August, 1893), Doctors at sea / by Charles Henry Leet.

  • Leet, Charles Henry, 1836-1907.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Shipowners and ships' surgeons : including Truth's article (24th August, 1893), Doctors at sea / by Charles Henry Leet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    TO THE MEDICAL OFFICERS—PAST AND PRESENT— OF THE BRITISH MERCHANT NAVY IN RECOGNITION Op their absolute impotence as Sanitary Officers afloat, and their just demand for Government protection and control in safe-guarding the living freight—passengers, emigrants, and crew, THIS PAMPHLET IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR, Whose services were dispensed with by three of the foremost Shipping Companies in the world, after con- scientiously discharging his duty in these three passenger Lines, and with satisfactory Testimonials from each Company. u I feel convinced that the verdict pronounced by every competent and unbiassed reader of this truthful sketch, will be that no conscientious medical gentleman, with a spark of self-respect or of professional dignity, should stoop to accept a Ship's surgeoncy in the British Mercantile Marine Service under the present humiliating conditions. (From the Preface of '• The Ship's Surgeon of To-day:')