Memoranda of evidence on matters of fact submitted on behalf of the Council and of the Board to The Inter-Departmental Committee on Dentistry, 1943-1944.

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[1944?]
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Credit: Memoranda of evidence on matters of fact submitted on behalf of the Council and of the Board to The Inter-Departmental Committee on Dentistry, 1943-1944. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    60. At the meeting of the conference in July this procedure was abandoned, again in deference to the view urged by elected members of the Board as representatives of their profession that the first or only business of the conference was to reach a con- clusion on a form of administration of dental education and examinations, and that the question of the content of the curri- culum in future was one neither for (1) the Council, nor even (2) the Board as constituted under the Dentists Act, 1921, but ) (3) for a dental authority as reconstituted in the light of any assumption by them of the responsibility in this sphere vested in the Council by the Dentists Act, 1878. 61. The conference accordingly turned to the consideration of the conditions of any transfer to the Board of the functions of the Council in relation to dental education and examinations, and arrived at substantial agreement on the recommendations in favour of such a transfer, subject to conditions, set out in paragraphs 19-20 of this Memorandum. Observations on Proposals of the Board 62. The only importance of this recapitulation is that, as the Committee will observe, any attempt by the conference to arrive at recommendations in favour of a detailed revision of the dental ‘curriculum was relinquished on the understanding, about which the Special Committee of the Counci] entertained no doubt, that any such attempt was the business neither of the Council as the statutory authority, nor of the Board as possible aspirants to that position, but of a third body who do not yet exist. 63. It is true that, as stated in paragraph 2 of this Memo- randum, the parties to the conference were not in a position to bind either the Council or the Board. It is also true that the Board were and are at liberty, as was Locke in 1693, to excogitate Thoughts on Education, and to present them to the Committee. 64. Nevertheless the Council observe with some surprise, in view of the course of the proceedings of the conference, and with more concern, lest the position of the Board under the Dentists 22