Laws, list of officers for the year 1870-71, and of the honorary members and members : to which is added a report of the annual meeting ... July 13th, 1870 / Poor-Law Medical Officers' Association.

Date:: [1870]

Credit: Laws, list of officers for the year 1870-71, and of the honorary members and members : to which is added a report of the annual meeting ... July 13th, 1870 / Poor-Law Medical Officers' Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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$themselves very actively to enlist new Members. This is a duty which every Member of the Association should regard as his own. In many unions every Medical officer has joined j and this as the result, generally, of an active canvass by one of their number. What has been done in so many cases may be done in many more, if not in all. Your Council desire to see a great increase in the number of Members—instead of 900 they want ] ,900, as an evidence of unity of policy and feelmg in the Service; and to give strength to the repre- sentations which the Association, either in general meeting assembled, or through the agency of your Council, has from time to time to address to the constituted authorities, or to the public. Now that such striking evidence has been given of the legitimate influence the Association possesses in Poor-Law affairs, it may be hoped that those who have held aloof, either from apathy, or, as, alas! so many have done, from despair, will, by joining its ranks, and thus increasing its power and usefulness, contribute to that final success which is to crown the work ! Db. Dudfield read several letters he had received from gentlemen regretting their inability to be present, viz : Lord George Hamilton, M.P., Dr. Brewer, M P., Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P., Mr. John Holms, M.P., Dr. Lyon Playfair, M.P., C.B., Mr. W. M. Torrens, M.P., Sir Massey Lopes, M.P., Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, Rev. Harry Jones, Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, Dr. Eumsey (General Medical Council), Sir James Alderson, F.R.S. (President of the Royal College of Physi- cians), Mr. Cock (President of the Royal College of Surgeons). We subjoin extracts from some of the letters in question: From Sir James Aldeeson. ^fv^'1^^2 ^l ™^ *° ^^^^k the Council of the Poor-Law Medical Officers' Association for the honour they have done me bv in- viting me to dinner on the 13lh July. I regret very much that a previous unavoidable engagement makes it impossible for me to avail my.self of the favour. I_ beg to express the high value I place on the approbation of your association, and I rejoice very much in having in any degree, how- ever small, been able to promote an act of justice to professional men engaged m arduous and important duties. Frovi Mr. Cock. « Allow me to say how much I appreciate the courtesy and kindness of on f hTl^r ^^'^'f ^^T-^^' in asking ^e to their dinner \ i ^ ^'^^^'y '^g'^^ ^hat my engagements on that day pievent me from accepting their invitation. We were much interested in i^ZruSoV^omr^^^^^^ ^-^ gratified at its success From Dr. Brewer, M.P. I have delyed till the last moment answering your note of the 20th Council of tt'V f'' ^^'i invitation of tie Council of the Poor Law Medical Officers' Association to their annual$