The workhouse and its medical officer / by Alfred Sheen.

  • Sheen, Alfred.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The workhouse and its medical officer / by Alfred Sheen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE WORKHOUSE AND ITS MEDICAL OFFICER. APPOINTMENT AND TENUP.E OF OFFICE. A CANDIDATE for the Medical Officerskip of a 11 Workhouse must be qualified by law to practise medicine and surgery in England and Wales, and must be registered. When a vacancy occurs a suc- cessor is usually advertised for, but the Guardians have the power to appoint without advertising, provided notice be given of such appointment, and entered on the minutes, at one of the two preceding meetings of the Board (Art. 156). The appointment is made subject to the approval of the Local Government Board, which approval is always forthcoming if the necessary conditions are complied with. Every Medical Officer of a workhouse, duly qualified when appointed, “ is to hold his office during his life, or until he resign, or become insane, or legally dis- qualified to hold it, or be removed by the Local Government Board, (presumably for some dereliction of duty). Instr. Letter, June 6, 1857.—This is a most