Special education for women : resolutions & report on the education of women in midwifery, management of medical institutions, dispensing medicines, and nursing.

  • General Medical Council.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Special education for women : resolutions & report on the education of women in midwifery, management of medical institutions, dispensing medicines, and nursing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The case now discussed by them is quite different from that of complete Medical and Surgical Education. It is, whether in the advance of population and civilisation a want has or has not been shown in the services for which women are specially adapted ; and whether women when properly instructed, have that recog- nition, and that justice shown to them which they may rightly demand. On this question, they, purposely with great brevity, now present their opinion. While they are aware that the Medical Council has no power to lay down what will entitle any one to be registered, otherwise than in the terms of Schedule A., of the Medical Act, they nevertheless consider it within the province of the Medical Council to issue a recommendation as to what would be desirable, for the benefit of the public, in the Education of Women as Midwives, Dispensers of Medicines, and Superintendents of Medical Institutions, and also as to the mode of registering their Qualifications. The Committee, under these circumstances, are of opinion that in any future Bill for the amendment of the Medical Act, a clause should be introduced giving power to the Medical Council to register the Qualifications of Women acting as Midwives, Dispensers, and Superintendents of Medical Institutions. The register, they need hardly add, would be separate from the register of Practitioners of Medicine and Surgery. In conclusion, the Committee would call the attention of the