Medical education and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada / prepared by the Illinois State Board of Health, and published by permission of the Board ; revised and corrected to March 1, 1884.

  • Illinois State Board of Health
Date:
1884
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Credit: Medical education and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada / prepared by the Illinois State Board of Health, and published by permission of the Board ; revised and corrected to March 1, 1884. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Remarks: De. J. F. Black, Registrar, writes: Our severe exam- ination probably accounts for the small proportion of matriculates who graduate with us. We pass no man who is not able to satisfy our examination. Ontario, Province of. Population 1,913,460 (census of 1881). Number of physicians, 1,700 (Ontario Medical Register, 1882). Number of inhabitants to each physician, 1,125. The Ontario Medical Act. Her Majesty, by and with the consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Prov- ince of Ontario, enacts as follows:— * § I. This act may be cited as the Ontario Medical Act. § II. The medical profession of Ontario heretofore incorporated under the name and style of The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, shall be deemed to be and to have been from the date of its first establishment a body corporate by the name aforesaid, having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire, hold, and dispose of chattel property and real estate for the purposes of this act, and to sue and be sued in the manner usual with such corporations. § III. Every person registered according to the provisions of the act passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Her Majesty, and chaptered thirty-four, of the act passed in the thirty-second year [1869] of the reign of Her said Majesty, and chaptered forty-five, of the act passed in the thirty-seventh year [1874] of Her Majesty's reign, and chaptered thirty, and the acts amending the same, shall be a member of the said College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. § IV. Every person hereafter registered under the provisions of this act shall also be a member of the said college. § V. There shall be a council of the said College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to be appointed in the manner hereinafter provided for in this act, and referred to in this act as The Council. § VI. The council shall be composed of the following persons:— Firstly. One member to be chosen from each of the colleges and bodies hereinafter designated, to-wit: The University of Toronto; Queen's University and College of Kingston; University of Victoria College; University of Trinity College; Koyal College of Physicians .and Surgeons, Kingston; Toronto School of Medicine; Trinity Medical School, and of every other college or body in the Province now by law authorized, or which may be hereafter authorized, to establish a medical faculty in connection therewith, and to grant degrees in medicine and surgery or other certificates of qualification to practice the same. 2. No teacher, professor or lecturer of any of the before-mentioned colleges or bodies shall hold a seat in the council, except as a representative of the college or body to which he belongs. 3. All members of the council, representing the colleges or bodies aforesaid, shall be practitioners duly registered under this act or the acts mentioned in section three of this act. Secondly. Five members to be duly elected by the licensed practitioners in homoeopathy who have been registered under this ac,t, or u4de,r the provisions in