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.
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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.
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![the present defective system showed them that they lived iu strange times, and though the advocates for a reform of the system had not yet succcded in their efforts, they should still persevere. He held that universit'es should not be allowed to creep in and upset the principle demanded by the wants of the public and for the protection of the profession. He warned them that the want of unity in the profession had made them the mark of perse- cution, otherwise the demands made for one system of examination and for other points, would have been conceded. But the union now existing in the profession would be a bar to this maintenance of a power over them, and he had not a scintilla of doubt that the measure now before the House could be upset, and another brought in which would elevate the pro- fession—in the opinion of the public. [Cheers. He did not hesitate to say that it was unjust and unwise on the part of the leading members of the profession in the country, that they did not lend the help of their hands to the sruggling members of the profession. He did not see why the Presi- dent of the College of Physicians, or the President of the Royal College of Surgeons, was not present, for there was not a member there who had paid his money at one door for fees, and gone out of the other, who had not the right to look to the support of those institutions, for then these Med- ical questions would receive an access of power which no Government would be able to disregard. [Cheers.] He would further say that the Poor Law Medical Officers' position was one which demanded the highest sympathy', for the labours they had performed, and did perform, called forth the highest credit from all clas.ses and conditions of their fellow countrymen. [Cheers.] He felt grateful to the Association for the manner in which his name had been received, and he trusted that the Association would go on gaining power, and would still assert the right of the whole profession, for they were closely bound up with the interests of the community at large. [Cheers.] Dr. Dixon then proposed The Press, coupling the toast with the names of Dr. Stallard, Mr. Leslie Stephen, and Mr. While. The toast was acknowledged by Dr. Stallard and Mr. Stephen. Dr. Macnamara, late President of the Irish College of Surgeons, pro- posed the health of the President. The President acknowledged the compliment, and the party then broke up.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21920606_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
