The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-20
TINE MEDICAL FRATERNITY.
Their Action of Last Evening.

Their Action of Last Evening.
Prompt 10 the call, which had been pub
lished in the daily papers, about eighty MEM
bers of the medical fraternity met in the CEN
trail hall Of the Medical College of this city.
DR.. Samuel Logan was called to the chair as
temporary chairman. After few preliminary
the chairman of the committee sp-
pointed at an informal meeting, held some
time previous, was called upon to make his
report, the nature of which purported the
formation of protective union against de-
Inquent patients.
The resolutions which were drawn MP BY
Drs. D. G. Holiday, Howard Smith, J. l..
Crawcour, Warren Stone, W. P. Brewer and
]. S. Herrick, constituting the committee,
were freely discussed and commented upon.
The unanimity which existed amongst the
professional men, indicating that they met
with an earnest purpose of accomplishing the
ends of the call.
The following resolutions were then finally
adopted as whole:
Whereas, the practitioners of medicine in
New Orleans are constantly defrauded by the
people who have the means, but not the dis
position to pay reasonable fees; and
Whereas. through want of concert OF action
among said practitioners, they are virtually
without remedy against the imposition Of
those who change their medical advisers as
often as their credit is exhausted, and pay
only with promises and Misrepresentation
Therefore, it seems proper and expedient
to the undersigned practitioners of medicine
to form protective association for the follow
ing purposes and under the following regula-
tons:
/. To facilitate the collection Of bills after
failure by the ordinary means.
2. To arrange list of delinquents, gradu-
ated according to their ability and disposition
to pay, and specifying their residences and
occupations.
3. To communicate this list of delinquents
to members of this association exclusively,
on which information each one may govern
his action according to his own judgment and
inclination.
To carry out the above purposes there shall
be constituted an executive committee OF
seven, to whom shall be assigned the duties
of choosing q collector for attending to such
bills as may be offered by the members, OF
defining the plan to be carried out by the col
lector, of preparing and publishing the de-
inquent list.
This committee may meet for the transac-
ton of business at their own discretion, but
a majority shall be requisite for quorum,
and no action on their part shall be binding
until after its ratification by the association.
A quorum of the association for the trans
action of business shall consist Of at least
one-third of all the members, and NO new
line of policy shall be adopted by less than q
two third vote of the members of the asso-
citation.
A permanent organization was then entered
into by the signing of roll of membership
and the election of officers, the latter result.
ing as follows: DR.. D. G. Holiday, President
Drs. Samuel Logan and Howard Smith, Vice
Presidents; DR.. VIM. Fl. Watkins, Secretary,
and Dr.. F. Loebsr, Treasurer.
Upon motion, the newly elected President
took the chair, and rendered his thanks in ap
propriate terms for the honor conferred
The first meeting being declared in order,
the subject Of society practice was brought
up. Various members of the association dis
cussed deliberately this question, the nature O
the arguments In the main indicating tina
said practice tended to demoralizs and ruiz
the profession. A number of names were
mentioned as gentlemen who had in thei
practice an association or society, and it wa
stated that upon calculating the visits o
these gentlemen to the. patients, members o
the organizations in their practice, was wortl
exactly eight cents per visit.
1t was then moved and carried that resolu
tions expressing fully their views upon thi
question should, after next meeting, be pub
lished in the daily papers with the names Q
the members of the association attached 4
the document.
The meeting then adjourned to meet mex
Saturday evening at 8 o'clock.