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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![Medical Board. First Elec- tion. Subsequent Elections. No. 9.] 6 [A.D, 1886. I Every Government Medical Officer shall conform to all such regulations which may he in force. The Medical Board. 25. A Medical Board is hereby established which shall consist of the Surgeon General, the Medical Inspector and .six persons who are duly qualified to practise M(;dicine and Surgery or Medicine or Surgery elected in the manner liereinafter directed. After the first day of January, 1887, no person shall be qualified to be a Member of the said Board who is not registered as herein- after required. The Surgeon General shall, be the Chairman of the Medical Board and shall if present preside at tlie meetings of the Board. If he be not present the Medical Inspector if present shall preside, and if he be also absent then the Government Medical Offi.cer present who is senior in the Colonial Service shall preside. 26. The first election shall be held on the first Tuesday in Sep- tember, 1886, at such convenient place in Georgetown as the Sur- geon General may appoint, between the hours of three and four o’clock in the afternoon. Every person who is duly licensed to practise Medicine and Surgery or Medicine or Surgery shall be entitled to vote at such election. The six qualified persons having the most votes shall be deemed to be elected Members of the Medical Board. 27. Where a vacancy exists in the Medical Board as regards the members who are to be elected, the Surgeon General shall within fourteen days after such vacancy occurs cause a notice to be pub- lished in the Official Gazette and one other newspaper fixing a day and hour for the election of a duly qualified person to fill the vacancy. Such day shall be a day not less than six and not more than ten days after the day on which such notice is first published. The election shall be held at such convenient place in George- town as the Sui’geon General may appoint and on the day and hour named. If such election takes place before the 1st day of January, 1887, every person duly licensed to practise Medicine and Surgery or Medi- cine or Surgery shall be entitled to vote at such_ election. If such election takes place after the 1st day of January, 1887 every medical practitioner registered under this Ordinance shall be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22334312_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
