The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-23 00:00:00

SOUTHERN HOSPITAL

A T a MEETING of the TRUSTEES (specially
ti,„ convened by Advertisement on the 16th December) the
following plan of electing Honorary Medical Officers—recom-
mended by the Committee in compliance with an express
request from the Medical Profession of Liverpool and its
vicinity, with the view of securing the appointment of the best
qualified man rather than the most active canvasser—was
unanimously adopted :
When a vacancy occurs, It shall be announced by an adver-
tisement, signed by the president, four weeks before the day of
election, requesting candidates duly qualified according to Laws
11, 22, 23, to forward to the Hospital, within the ensuing
fortnight, the following form, signed and filled up :
"I, the undersigned, offer myself for the vacant office of
honorary physician (or surgeon) to the Liverpool Southern
Hospital, and I hereby pledge myself not to advertise, canvass,
or in any other way solicit votes, either personally or by the
agency of others. Any trustee who may at present feel himself
bound by a promise to vote for me, is hereby released by me
from any such promise. I further agree to bear my proportion
of the necessary expenses attending the election.

"1. Name and address. - ,
" 2. Kind of qualification.
" 3. Date of admission to the profession.
" 4. Length of time in practice in Liverpool or elsewhere.
"5. Any public appointment now or previously held, and
if so, for how long." . .

N.B.—Candidates are at liberty to send any testimonials to
the hospital for inspection, or, if they think proper, to send
printed copies of them by post to each trustee, but without
any circular soliciting his vote. . . .

Printed copies of-the above form to be obtained by ap-
plication at the hospital.
No candidate to be eligible who shall not send in the above
form, filled up and signed, within the specified time.
Each candidate shall also be required to forward to the hos-
pital at the same time his testimonials and the vouchers of his
qualifications, for inspection by the honorary medical board,
who shall certify their sufficiency to the committee before he
can be admissable as a candidate.

Whe❑ tho prescribed time shall have elapsed, a verbatim
copy of the above form, as filled up and signed by the respective
candidates, with their names in alphabetical order, shall be
addressed by post to each trustee, not less than seven days
prior to the day of election, accompanied by the followiug
circular :

' Liverpool Southern Hospital

Sir,—l beg to inform you that the election of (an) honorary
physician (or surgeon) will take place in the board room of the
above hospital on , the day of ,at o'clock.
"Below is appended an alphabetical list of the candidates,
with their respective qualifications. . .

" I beg to Call your particular attention the fact that every
candidate has pledged himself to abstain from canvassing in
any way for votes, either personally or by the agency of
others; and you are earnestly requested to co-operate in
carrying out the object of the above pledge, by voting for
the candidate whom, according to the best of your judgment,
you believe to be best fitted to promote the interests of the
charity.

" You will please to place your initials against the name of
the candidate for whom you vote, sign the accompanying
declaration, and return the form to me by post, as addressed,
on or before the day of , 185 .
" 1 am, sir, yours respectfully,

, President.
N.B.—" If any trustee vote for more than [one] candidate
his vote will be lost.

*** "Those who are trustees by virtue of annual subscrip-
tion only, will please to observe that by Law 4 no vote can be
recorded unless the subscription for the current year be pre-
viously paid.
"Declaration to be signed by the Trustee :
"I hereby tender my vote for the candidate in the fore..
going list against whose name I have placed my initials.

(Signed)

Trustee.''

At the appointed hour on the day of election, the forms
sent in shall be opened by the committee, the votes counted,
and the name of the successful candidate only made public ;
but a statement of the numbers shall be sent officially to each
candidate by the secretary.
SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the ELECTION
of TWO HONORARY SURGEONS will take pace, at
the Clarendon-rooms, on Monday, the 19th January next, at
One o'clock p.m.
Candidates and the Trustees aro requested to observe that
the election will be conducted in accordance with the fore-
going plan. The forms for the candidates can be obtained by
appli'ation at the Hospital, and must he returned to the
Hospital (addressed to the President), filled up and signed,
accompanied by the necessary vouchers, &c., not later than
Monday, the sth January next.
JAMES INGRAM, President.

22nd December, 1856.
N.B.— Law 22. .4 Surgeons Qualification.—A surgeon
cannot hold office in this Hospital who has not taken out his
diploma at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Dublin,
or Edinburgh; or the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of
Glasgow."
Law 23. " Physicians and Surgeons not to hold other
ofllces.—No honorary medical officer of this Hospital shall hold
a situation in any other public charity, or be a parochial
medical officer for tho poor, or a physician or surgeon to any
society for affording mutual relief in sickness, infirmity, or
old age ; and if a physician or surgeon of this Hospital shall
accept an appointment to any of the offices herein named, he
shall vacate his office in this Hospital."

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