Silverlock's medical and surgical emergency reference book.

Date:
[1885?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Silverlock's medical and surgical emergency reference book. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FEES CLAIMABLE BY MEDICAL MEN AT COURTS OF LAW. (A) —For Attendance upon Accidents on the Public Way. (B) —In Police Courts. (C) ~ln the Coroner's Court. (D) —At Sessions, Assizes, and in Criminal Courts. (E) —For Services under the Factory Act. (A) —Accidents on the Public Way.—A medical practi- tioner called upon by a Police Officer to attend a stranger in a state of insensibility may claim from the Police Authorities a fee of 3s. 6d. if the visit be paid between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m., and 7s. 6d. if between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. Unqualified Assistants' services are not paid for. Police Constables taken suddenly ill, not being already under treatment, between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., are paid for by a Mght Certifi- cate. It is necessary to take the name of the Inspector on duty, and obtain from him a ceiiificate of attendance; the fees are then paid (on application) twice a year. (B) —In Police Courts.—If prisoner is committed for trial, the ]\Iagistrate certifies to the Clerk of Arraigns that a fee is due for each day—10s. 6d. if witness lives within two miles of Police Court, 21s. if beyond two miles—and these fees are paid after the trial, afc the Sessions or Old Bailey. When the prisoner is not committed for trial, the Surgeon should ask the Magistrate for a certificate of attendance (at the same rate), and these are payable daily (except Saturday) between 11 and 3, at Whitehall Place, on production of the certificate. (C) —In the Coroner's Court.—if summoned under the Medical Witnesses Act, Sch. A. 6 & 7 Will. IV., Cap. 89, and in the form and manner following, the witness is entitled to a fee of One G-uinea for Iiis attendance to give evidence— and a further sum of One Guinea for performing a post- mortem examination, provided such examination be ordered by the Coroner. POEM OF SUMMONS. Coroner's inquest at the in the parish of in the county of upon the body of By virtue of this my order, as coroner of , you are required to appear before me and the jury at the place afore- said, on the day of one thousand eight hundred and at of the clock in the noon, to give evidence touching the cause of the death of the aforesaid person ; and make, or assist in making, a post-mortem examination of the body (with an analysis of the contents of the stomach, if such be necessary), and report thereon at the said inquest. To Mr A. B., Coroner. iVb/e.—Unless the summons be worded as above, it is not considered a medical summons. Differently framed it is an ordinary summons, and carries no fee with it, but the witness is nevertheless bound, under penalty of £5, to obey both forms of summons. The chemical analysis, and subsequent attendance at the inquest to report thereon, is considered a part of the autopsy and included in the fee, nor is a chemisb, applied to by the medical witness for assistance, allowed to appear in evidence at the inquest, the latter being held responsible for the joint conclusions of the two.