An Ordinance to establish a Government Medical Service and to enforce the registration of practitioners in medicine or surgery.
- British Guiana.
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An Ordinance to establish a Government Medical Service and to enforce the registration of practitioners in medicine or surgery. 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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![not to reco- ver charges. aclvicG, attondanco, or for the performance of any operation or for any medicine wliicli lie shall liavo ])otli prescribed and supplied unle^ he sliaU prove upon the hearing tliat he is registered under this Ordinance. Offences. ShLamG “J' registered Medical Practitioner is convicted of any may be lelony Or misdemeanour before the Sujn’eme or Inferior Court of erased from Criminal Justice or after due inquiry is judged by the Medical register. Board to have been guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect the Medical Board with the sanction of the Governor may cause the name of such Medical Practitioner to bo erased from tlie register. Fraudulent ^ 48, Any person who wilfully procures or attempts to procure attempts to himself to be registered under this Ordinance by making or produc- regis er. pi.^q^ced any false or fraudulent representation or declaration either verbally or in writing and every person aiding and_ assisting him therein shall be guilty of a misde- meanour and punishable liy line or imprisonment not exceeding twelve montlis. Improper 49. Any person who wilfully and falsely pretends to be or caftitle or title of a physician/ doctor of medicine, ca 1 e. licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner or any name, title, addition or description implying tliat he is registered under this Ordinance, or that ho is recognized by law as a Pliysician or Surgeon or Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery or a Practitioner in Medicine, shall be guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction, and on conviction shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars. 50. Any person who molests, hinders or opposes the Surgeon Officer in the General, the Medical Inspector or any Government Medical Officer i,is acting in the discharge of his duty or in the exercise of any power or authority given by any Ordinance, shall be guilty of a misde- meanour and punishable accordingly. Schools of Instruction for Chemists, Dispensers, and Midwives. Instruction for persons desiring to qualify as Chemists, Dispensers or Mid- wives. 51. Whereas it is expedient that the opportunity for instruc- tion should be afforded to those who desire to become qualified to dispense and compound drugs, or to act as dispensers, or as sick- niirses, or as midwives: Be it enacted that schools for the purposes aforesaid, shall be established at the Public Hospital in Georgetovm, and at such other Public Hospitals as the Governor may direct; and the necessary instruction shall be there given, subject to such regu- lations as may from time to time be made by the Surgeon General and approved by the Governor and Court of Policy.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22334312_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
