Report of the committee on the employment of unqualified assistants by registered practitioners.

  • General Medical Council.
Date:
1883
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    A^l 2.dct 186S REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE 'fJ ON THE MPLOYMENT OF UNQUALIFIED ASSISTANTS BY REGISTERED PRACTITIONERS. ( One hundred and eighty-eight letters and other communica-^ s on the subjects referred to the Committee have been laid ire and circulated amongst the members of the Committee by Chairman. An abstract of the most relevant portions of ■e documents has been prepared by the Chairman in the form i, “ Statement ” founded on them, which is appended to this xort. The Committee has held five meetings, in the intervals of 3h the documents above referred to have been passed round mch of the members. ?he Committee has also had the advantage at one of their tings of the personal attendance of Mr. R. H. S. Carpentee, orary Secretary to the Medical Alliance Association, who, at iderable inconvenience to himself, gave evidence by word of th, accompanied by documentary proofs, of the prevalence le metropolis of certain practices, to the adoption of which le provinces the greater part of the writers of the above- •V4_L j ed letters bear witness. it 5 UivttAv*. UK * rom the evidence collected by the Chairman, and from such r information as we have, we find it clearly established as that the employment of unqualified assistants on duties ;h ought only to be devolved on persons legally qualified is Ibuse which prevails extensively in England and Wales, and general practice on a very large scale (as in regard of masses lining and manufacturing population) is often thus carried