State medicine : resolutions of the General Medical Council, adopted July 9 and July 12, 1869; together with the second report and appendix of the Committee on State Medicine, appointed June 27, 1868. July 13, 1869.

  • General Medical Council.
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1869
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Credit: State medicine : resolutions of the General Medical Council, adopted July 9 and July 12, 1869; together with the second report and appendix of the Committee on State Medicine, appointed June 27, 1868. July 13, 1869. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with the medical establishments ; he issues complaints, of his own accord, against medical men or other persons appertaining to his control; he receives complaints from other people, investigates the case, and reports to the Provincial Medical Council; besides, he sends up every three months a general report of the sanitaiy state of his district, suggests improvements, &c. Before being appointed, he has to prove, by a diflBlcult and lengthy exam- ination, his thorough fitness for the fulfilment of his duties. Those districts comprise either large towns of 40,000 to 60,000 inhabitants (^Stadt-physims) or smaller towns and the surrounding villages (^Kreis- physicus). The following are the special duties of a District Sanitary Commissioner: 1. To be the representative of the Provisional Government in the first instance, for the public in general, and for aU medical men, pharmacists, surgical assistants, midwives, &c., of whom he has to keep a list (names, qualifications, and residences). 2. To be watchful over endemic and epidemic diseases on man and cattle. 3. To superintend vaccination throughout his district. 4. To give medico-legal evidence in all judicial cases, or to confixm the evidence of other medical men. 5. To watch over the quality of all articles sold in markets, in pharmacists' or other shops. 6. To make or assist at post-Trwrtem examinations and analyses, when such are required by courts of law. 7. To advise and assist the medical branch of the police (^Sanitdts Polizei). The Secretary of State for Home Affairs promulgates from time to time through the Chief of the Police, regulations of a hygienic character : (a) on cholera, its spread, prevention, &c.; (J?) on typhus, diarrhoea, smallpox, scarlatina, contagious diseases, syphilis, itch, and other diseases in man ; (c) all infecting diseases of cattle; (^d) on disinfecting of localities, men, merchandise, cattle, &c. 8. To assist in the hospital branch of the police, as superintending aU sanitary establishments in the district. 9. To inspect dispensaries and pharmacists' shops at least once a year. 10. To report on all occasions, at least once in three months, to the Pro- visional Government, and suggest improvements, if desii'able, at reasonable cost. He, the Kreis-p>hysicus, is assisted in Ms functions by an Assistant Sanitary Commissioner, called Xreis-wundarzt, who has to furnish his own instru- ments, and to make the post-onoHem examinations. Formerly, a surgeon was usually appointed for the post; but, as the Government is doing away in Prussia with all sui'geoncies, he wiU in future be a qualified assistant. [A tariff of charges for special duties is fixed for sanitaiy commissioners and their assistants.]