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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    for sucli purpose, countersi^ucfl by two Justices of tlie Peace, certifying to their knowledge or belief that such person so applying is about to cany on the practice of anatomy'^; and every pei-son on obtaining such license as aforesaid shall pay the sum of live guineas to the treasurer or Secretary of the School of Anatomy, where he intends to practice, and no other person shall receive or have in his possession for anatomical examination any dead human body. Iniijircto 'rs of Soluwls of Amtomy:—The Governor in Council may appoint one or more Insi>ectors for every School of Anatomy, who shall make a quarterly return to the Colonial Secretary of all bodies that during the preceding quarter have been removed for anatomical examination to every such School of Anatomy, or that may have been removed to any other place, distinguishing the sex, and as far as is known at the time, the name and age of each person whose body was so removed, and every such Inspector may visit and inspect at any time the School of Anatomy for which he is appointed Inspector. Bodies for Aiiatomical Examination.—The surgeon of any hospital and the keeper of any lunatic asylum or gaol, may permit the body of any deceased person to undergo anatomical examination, unless such person shall have expressed his desire, at any time during his life, that his body after death might not undergo such examination; an anatomical examination may also be made of the body of any person who may du-ect, at any time during his life, either in wi-iting or verbally, in the presence of two or more witnesses, that his body after death may be examined anatomically, provided in all cases that no relative of the deceased person shall requn-e the body to be interred without such examination. Removal of Bodies.—In no case shall the body of any person be removed for anatomical examination from any place where such person may have died until after thirty-six hours from the time of such pemon’s decease, nor until after twenty-four hours’ notice, to be reckoned from the time of such decease, to one of the Inspectors of the district, of the intended removal of the body, or, if no such Inspector has been appointed, to some legally qualified Medical Pi'actitioner residing near the place of death, nor unless a certificate stating in what manner such person came by his death shall previously to the removal of the body have been signed by the legally qualified Medical Practitioner who attended such person during the illness whereof he died, or if no such practitioner attended such person during such illness, then by some legally qualified medical practitioner who shall be called in after the death of such person to view the body, and who shall state the manner or cause of death according to the best of his knowledge and belief, but who shall not be concerned in examining the body after removal, and that in case of such removal such certificate shall be delivered, together with the body, to the party receiving the same for anatomical examination. Anatomieal Examination to he carried, out at 'places Licensed.—No party shall carry on or teach anatomy, receive or possess for anatomical examination, or examine anatomically any dead human body, except at such place as authorized for that pur- pose, but any person properly licensed, who shall obtain the permission of one of the In.spcctors in writing for that purpose, and also the pei-mission of the proper authori- ties of the school at which he is licensed to practice anatomy, may remove any body or portion of a body to such place as the Inspector shall seem fit. Bemoral of Jtodiesfor E.rnmenation.—Every body when removed for the pur- pose of examination shall before such removal be placed in a decent coffin or shell, and be removed therein, and the paity removing the .same or causing the same to be removed shall make |)i'ovision that such body, after undergoing anatomical examination, be decently interi'cd, and a certificate of the interment of such body shall be trans- mitted to the Insiiector of the district within eight weeks after the day on which such body was received after such removal. Post-mortem Examination not Prokihited.—Nothing in this Act contained shall prohibit any post-mortem examination of any body required or directed to be made by any com[)etent legal authority. Ofences.—Any pc i-son offending against the provisions of this Act shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or by a tine not exceeding fifty pounds. THE SALE OF POISONS ACT (1871). Sellers of Poisons to he Registered.—Any ])crson who wishes to sell or keep open shop mr retailing, dispen.sing, or compounding poi.sons may be registered, without fee, OTi application to the llcgistrar under this Act, personally or by registered letter ; but persons registered under the “ Medical Practitioners’ Kegistration Act, 180!),” shall not be registered under this Act.
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