The Australasian medical directory and handbook / edited by Ludwig Bruck.

Date:
1886
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Credit: The Australasian medical directory and handbook / edited by Ludwig Bruck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    President, together with a Secretary, under the style of the “New South Wales Medical Boaid,” three Members to form a quorum, and any person desirous of being declared a legally qualified Medical Practitioner shall submit his degree, di]doma, or other certificate, or proof of his being so duly qualified for the examination and approval of the said Medical Board, and shall obtain from the said Medical Board a certificate of his being so qualified. Lnjally Qualified Medical Praetitumevs Defined.—No person shall be deemed a legally qualified Medical Practitioner unless sucli person shall have proved to the satisfaction of the Medical Board that he is a Doctor or Bachelor of Medicine of some Univeraity, or a Physician or Surgeon licensed or admitted as such by some College of Physicians or Surgeons in Great Britain or Ireland, or a Member of the Company of A])othecaries of London, or a Member or Licentiate of the Apothecaries’ Hall of Dublin, or who is or has been a Medical Officer duly^appointcd and confii-med of Her Majesty’s sea or land service. MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS’ REGISTRATION (1865). (19 Vie., No. 17.) Foreign Medical Practitioners,—Any person who shall prove to the satisfaction of the Medical Board that he has passed through a regular course of medical study of not less than three years’ duration in a School of Medicine, and that he has I'eceived after due examination from the University of Sydney, or from some University, College, or other body duly reeognised for that purpose in the country to which such University, College, or other body may belong, a diploma, degree, or lieense entitling him to practice medicine in that country, shall be deemed to be a legally qualified Medical Practitioner, and shall be entitled to a certificate as such from the said Board. Penalties.—The said Board may examine any person who may present himself for examination, or any witness who may be produced before them, and to take a solemn declaration from such person or witness, and, if any person shall wilfully, knowingly, and corruptly make any false statement upon such examination, or in such declaration, or shall utter, or attempt to utter, or put off as true before the said Boaitl, any false, forged, or counterfeit diploma, degree, license, certificate, or other document, or if any j)crson shall fraudulently or by false representations obtain any certificate as a duly qualified Medical Practitioner, or shall forge, alter or counterfeit any such certificate, or shall utter or use any such forged certificate knowing the same respectively to have been forged, or shall falsely advertise or publish himself as having obtained such certificate, every person, guilty of any, or cither of the said offences, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour and be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding three years. INFECTIOUS DISEASE SUPERVISION ACT (1881). (46 Vic., No. 26.) Doard of Health.—The Governor may appoint a Board of Health to consist of not le.ss than six pei’sons to carry out the provisions of this Act, and three members of such Board shall, at any meeting thereof, constitute a quorum. Case of 8mall-])ox to be rejnn’ted.—On the appearance of any case of Small-pox or eruptive fever, which may reasonably be supposed to be Small-pox, in any house or premises in Lew South Wales, the householder or occupier of the said house or piomises, and also the Medical Practitioner attending the case, shall immediately report in writing such case to the proper authorities in manner following, that is to say, if the case occur within the City of Sydney, then the report of the case shall be dchvci'cd to the officer in chaige at the nearest police station or lock-up, or to the officer in charge at the Central Police Station, or to the Health Officer of the Port of Sydney, or to any member of the Government Medical Staff, or the Secretary of the Board of Health, and if the case occur beyond the City of Sydnev, then the report shall be delivered to the nearest Magistrate Officer of Police, Clerk of Petty Sessions, or to the Govemment Medical Officer of the district within which the case has occiiiTcd. i. 11 —If any person, required to report any such case, sha fail to make such immediate report, as hereinbefore requhed, every such person shall be liable to a penalty of not less than ten nor more than fifty pounds ; or in default of payment, by imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six calendar months.