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Title: The Canadian journal of medicine and surgery
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Medicine Surgery
Publisher: Toronto
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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r letter, addressed to the President and Secre-tary of every home Branch, asking its views on the subject. This letter set forth the question under consideration in itsfullest aspect, sought the counsel and advice of the Presidentsand Secretaries of every home Branch concerning it, and ap-pended to it was a series of questions, the answers to which, itwas thought, would be decisive. Up to this time every Branchhad been represented on the Committee of Council by its Honor-ary Secretary, ex-officio, and the first question w^as: Is yourBranch satisfied with its present method of representation on theCommittee of Council by its Honorary Secretary, ex-officio? Sixteen questions were added to enable each Branch to makeclear its objections to the above, if it had any, and aimed at get-ting fairly at the root of the matter. They ran as follows: Has your Branch, having the power to elect a special Honor-ary Secretary to represent it on the Committee of the Council,availed itself of that power?
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64 Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery. What is the total number of the members of your Branch,and what is tlie income of your Branch from Branch subscrip-tions ? Are the travelling expenses of your Honorary Secretary tothe meetings of the Committee of C^ouncil defrayed by theBranch ? Is there any feeling in your Branch of inadequate repre-sentation ? Is the attendance of your Honorary Secretary at the meet-ings of Committee of Council influenced by the payment or non-payment of his travelling expenses ? Have you any other suggestions to offer to the sub-committeewith regard to tlie representation of your Branch in the Committeeof Council ? The answers received in reply to these questions were diffi-cult to summarize, but the sub-committee, acting on what ap-peared to be their general sense, drew up an exhaustive report,and this report, which, for convenience of debate, was drawn upin two parts, was discused at a special meeting of the Councilheld at Birmingham, May lYth, 1883. T

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