The report of a committee on the New Poor Law Act : appointed by the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, at its anniversary meeting, held at Oxford, and read at the anniversary meeting, held at Manchester, July 21st, 1836.
- Provincial Medical and Surgical Association. Poor-Law Committee
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The report of a committee on the New Poor Law Act : appointed by the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, at its anniversary meeting, held at Oxford, and read at the anniversary meeting, held at Manchester, July 21st, 1836. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![slioiilil possess a singular combination of prudence, courage, and independent feeling. He Avould also find it a delicate, if not an invidious task, to report cases of neglect or misma- nagement, involving, perhaps, the reputation of another me- dical practitioner. Your Committee were therefore not surprised at the small proportion uhich the body of evidence collected bears to the number of facts which have occurred under the existing ar- rangements. Another disadvantage which your Committee laboured under, in the prosecution of this enquiry, was the indifference created in the minds of some medical men, by the comjiara- tively favourable terms which, in a very few districts, they had succeeded in making with the new authorities: thus ob- scuring their perception of the tendency of the general regu- lations, and checking, to a certain extent, that sympathy with their brethren elsewhere, which, considering the peculiar cir- cumstances of the medical body, is absolutely essential to a preservation of its interests and privileges. In other cases, where information was readily supplied, it ■was a task of some difficulty to separate the bare facts of the case, from the expressions of indignation which a keen sense of oppression and injury had Avrung from the correspondents. Your Committee, however, did not depend wholly on the materials provided by medical practitioners. The newspapers have teemed Avith advertisements for medical officers of pa- rochial unions, containing particulars Avith regard to their appointment, the nature and amount of their duties, and the mode of their remuneration; and the Poor LaAv Commis- sioners, in their first annual report, and in other documents, have clearly manifested the intentions of their regulations respecting medical relief, as well as the manner in Avhich they desire these intentions to be carried out. Your Committee have also examined the replies made to the Amuous remon- strances Avhich have been addressed to the Commissioners Avhether by way of individual a])i)cal or public protest. Your Committee, therefore, trust, that in the conclusions](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22389738_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
