The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-22 00:00:00

MEDICAL PRACTICE.

A BILL FOR THE BETTER REGULATION OF
MEDICAL PRACTICE THROUGHOUT THE
UNITED KINGDOM.

Prepared and brought in by Sir James Graham and

Mr. Manners Sutton.

The first clause repeals all existing statutes relat-
ing to the practice of physic and surgery.
2. And be it enacted, that a council shall be esta-
blished, which shall be styled " The Council of Health
and Medical Education ; and that one of her Majesty's
principal Secretaries of State shall be a member of
the said council, in right of his office as Secretary of
State ; and that the regius professor of medicine in
the University of Oxford, the regius professor of
physic in the University of Cambridge, the regius
professor of physic in the University of Dublin, the
regius professor of clinical surgery in the University of
Edinburgh, and the regius professor of surgery in the
University of Glasgow, shall be members of the said
council in right of their severvl professorships ; and
that the other members of the said council shall be
one physician and one surgeon, to be chosen by the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of England re-
spectively ; one physician and one surgeon to be
chosen by the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of
Scotland respectively; one physician and one surgeon
to be chosen by the Colleges of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Ireland respectively ; and six other persons
whom her Majesty, with the advice of her Privy
Council, shall deem fit to be members of the said
council.

3. Provided always and be it enacted, that it shall
he lawful for her Majesty, with the advice her Privy.
Council, to appoint all the members of the first coun-
cil of health and medical education, other than those
who will be members thereof in right of their several
offices ; and that, at the end of the third and each of
the two next following years after the first constitu-
tion of the said council, one physician and one sur-
geon of those first appointed on behalf of the said
several Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons shall go
out of office, in such order as her Majesty, with the
advice of her Privy Council, shall direct.
Clause 4 provides that the ex officio members of the
council shall continue to execute their functions while
they hold their respective offices, and that the six
members appointed by the Crown shall continue
members during her Majesty's pleasure.
Clause .5 provides for the election of members from
any of the colleges, in case of vacancies, and also that
such member shall hold office for three years only,
but allows their re-election.

6. The details of elections are to be settled by the
bye-laws of the various colleges.
7. In a case of extraordinary vacancy another mem-
ber of the council shall be appointed in the same man-
ner and for the same term of years as the member by
whom the vacancy shall have been made.
Clause 8 provides for the appointment of a prin-
cipal secretary and local secretaries for Scotland and
Ireland, to be elected by the council, subject to the
approval of her Majesty's princial Secretaries of State.
9. The salaries of the members of council and
other officers to be determined by the Lord high
Treasurer or Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury,
who will also allow travelling and other expenses in
carrying the Act into execution.
10. And be it enacted, that the said Secretary of
State shall be president of the said council, and shall
be empowered from time to time to nominate one of
the members of the council appointed as aforesaid by
her Majesty to be vice-president of the council, and
to act as president in his absence, and at every meet-
ing of the council in the absence of the president and
vice-president, some other member, to be chosen by
the council from the members then present, shall be
empowered to act as president.
11. And be it enacted, that the said council shall
be holden in such places and at such times as the
Secretary of State from time to time shall appoint ;
and that all the acts of the council shall be decided
by the votes of the majority of the members present
at any meeting, the whole number not being less than
seven ; and at all such meetings the president for the
time being shall have a second or casting vote in all
cases of equality of votes.
12. And be it enacted, that minutes of the pro-
ceedings at all the meetings of the council shall be.
drawn up and fairly entered in books, to be kept
for that purpose; and such minutes shall be at all
reasonable times open to the inspection of any person
or committee appointed for the purpo:-e of inspecting
them by any of the said Universities or colleges.
13. And be it enacted, that a register shall be kept
and published from time to time, under the direction
of the said council, of all persons who shall have been
examined, and shall have received, and shall exhibit