Report of the Executive Committee on the constitution and working of the General Medical Council : memorandum by Dr. Pitman and Sir James Paget : memorandum by Dr. Quain : and appendix containing documents in regard to the Council.

  • General Medical Council. Executive Committee.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Report of the Executive Committee on the constitution and working of the General Medical Council : memorandum by Dr. Pitman and Sir James Paget : memorandum by Dr. Quain : and appendix containing documents in regard to the Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Conncil of Health and Medical Education, to consist of 17 Members. Secretary of State to be President. No new Constitu- tions pro- posed trom 1844 to 1855. A Medical Conncil of 19, to con- tain 8 Re- presentative members, 7 Corporate members, and 4 University members. 3. A Bill of date August 7, 1844, prepared and brought in by Sir James G-eaham and Mr. Manners Sutton, proposed to institute a single Council, entitled the Council of Health and Medical Education, to be composed of 17 members, chosen or elected as follows :— (a ) Six were to be Crown nominees; (/3) the following five were to be members in right of office, namely, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford, the Regius Professor of Physic in each of the Universities of Cambridge and Dublin, and the Regius Professor of Sargery in each of the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow; and (y) the remaining 6 were to be 3 physicians and 3 surgeons, chosen by and from the respective Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of England, Scotland, and Ireland, collectively. Of the Council thus formed the said Secretary of State was to be President, with power to nominate from among the Crown nominees a member to be Vice-President, and to act as President in his absence. During the next 11 years (from 1844 to 1855) 8 Medical Bills were brought in, none of which, however, touched on the constitution of the Council, though it may be mentioned, in passing, that one of them (of date February 22, 1854, introduced by Mr. Beady and three others) contained another reference to Dentists, by providing that nothing therein should be con- strued to extend to the profession or business of any Dentist or Cupper. 4. A Bill of date June 26, 1855, to which are prefixed the names of Mr. Headlam, Mr. Beaut, and Mr. Ceaufued, proposed a Council of 19 members, all to be registered medical practitioners, whereof 8 representative members were to be elected by ballot, for a period of three years each, by universal sufi'rage of registered practitioners, pursuant to a scheme elaborated in the Bill; namely 4 by and from registered practitioners in England ; 2 by and from registered practitioners in Scotland; and 2 by and from registered practitioners in Ireland :—and besides these, 1 member was to be chosen by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge collectively; 1 by the University of London; 1 by the four Universities of Scotland collectively; 1 by the two Universities of Ireland collectively ; a physician and a surgeon was to be chosen by each of the respective Colleges of Physicians and of Surgeons of England, Scotland, and Ireland (making thus 6 members in all) ; and the nineteenth member was to be a