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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-24

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 9781334647604

Excerpt from Edinburgh Medical Journal, Vol. 31: Comprising the Monthly Journal of Medicine and the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal; Part II., January to June 1886 This I hold to be essential. All medical ofiicers of health should be relieved from private practice And nothing would bring about this desirable consummation sooner than the adoption throughout the length and breadth of the land of a system of notification of infectious diseases. No member of our profession can allow with any equanimity the house of his patient, and pos sibly his patient himself, to be visited by a rival practitioner, who, let him act with the greatest prudence, must at times give rise to suspicion, and may find to his annoyance that some simple phrase or act has been so misrepresented as to give grave offence to his fellow-practitioner. The remedy for such a danger is, as I have said, the introduction of a general system of notification in Scot land, which would at once elicit from the profession such a decided expression of opinion as would compel local authorities to relieve their health-officer from the cares of practice; and by the judicious combination of districts, would secure for these officials a suitable compensatory salary. An additional check against sanitary officiousness is the phrase which has been introduced by our municipal authorities into our intimation card, putting it in the power of every practitioner to solicit or to retard the action of the sanitary authorities. The phrase N o immediate attention is required, if allowed to remain, informs the authorities that no necessity exists for their interference at that juncture; while if the word N o is deleted, then action is at once invited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.