of Oklahoma, providing for the establishment of a National Department of Health, which is so essential to the general well being of this country, and

Whereas, The aforesaid bill has been endorsed by our National Medical Association, and many of our sister State Medical Associations;

Be It Reselved, That the Medical Association of Georgia do in meeting assembled, hereby endorse United States Senate Bill No. 6049, or any proper substitute therefor, and further that our Secretary be instructed to so notify the Hon. Robert L. Owen, the United States Senators and Congressmen from Georgia, and request that they support the aforesaid bill.

Resolution by Dr. MeArthur that only one member of the Committee on Public Policy and Legislation be appointed each year, was tabled.

The Medical Practice Bill, as follows, was recommended by the House of Delegates:

A BILL-To be entitled an Act to establish a Board of Medical Examiners for the State of Georgia; to define its duties and powers; to protect the people from illegal and unqualified practitioners of medicine and surgery; to regulate the issuing and recording of licenses; to define what is considered the practice of medicine; to fix fee for license; to provide for the revocation of license; to require a standard of preliminary education of applicants; to prescribe penalties for the violation of this Act; and for other purposes.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That a board is hereby established, to be known by the name and style of the State Board of Medical Examiners. Said board shall be composed of nine praeticing physicians of integrity and ability, who shall be residents of, and have been duly licensed to practice medicine in this state, and who shall have graduated from medical schools of high educational requirements and

standing, and have been engaged in the active practice of their profession within this state for at least a period of five years; but none of them shall be connected in any way with any medical college. Said board shall perform such duties, and posess and exercise such powers, relative to the protection of the public health and the control and regulation of the practice of medicine in this state as shall be in this Act prescribed and conferred upon it.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Governor shall within thirty days after the passage of this Act, appoint nine physicians, who shall, possess the qualities specified in Section 1 of this Act to constitute the members of this board. One member of the board shall be an osteopathic physician, one a homeopathic, two electics and five regular or allopathic physicians, all to be appointed by the Governor from lists of three names for each vacancy, furnished respectively by the State society or association of each school or system of practice. The successor of each member shall be appointees in the same manner. Said members shall be so classified by the Governor that the term of office of three shall expire in two, three in four, and three in six years from the date of appoinment. Biennially thereafter, the Governor shall appoint three members, each shall serve for the term of six years. Any vacancy that may occur in said board, in consequence of death, resignation, removal from the State or from other cause, shall be filled for the unexpired term by the Governor. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That immediately and before entering upon the duties of said office, the members of said board shall take the constitutional oath of office, and shall file the same in the office of the Governor of the State, who, upon receiving the said oath of office. shall issue to each member a certificate of appointment.

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That immediately after

the appointment and qualification of said members, said board shall meet and organize. Said board shall elect a president and a vice-president from the membership, and a secretary-treasurer, who shall not necessarily be a physician and who by virtue of his office shall be an exofficio member of the board, whose term of office shall be the same as other members of the board and whose

salary shall be $2,000.00 per annum. While in performance of their duties while in session, each member of the board shall be paid twenty-five dollars per day, in addition to all their necessary expenses, which shall be paid by the board. All funds of the board be turned into the treasury of the State, and the same shall be placed to the credit of said board, subject to their draft. Said board shall hold two regular meetings in each year. One meeting shall be held on the first Tuesday in May and the other on the second Tuesday in October. Call meetings may be held at the discretion of the president. The regular meetings shall be held at the Capitol building, in Atlanta. Said board shall adopt a seal which must be affixed to all licenses issued by them. They shall, from time to time, adopt such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary for the performance of their duties. And shall examine and pass upon the qualification of applicants for the practice of medicine in this State, as herein prescribed.

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That any person wishing to obtain the right to practice medicine in this State, who has not heretofore been licensed so to do, shall, before it shall be lawful for him to practice mediene in this State make application to the board, through the secretary-treasurer thereof, upon such form and in such manner, as shall be adopted and prescribed by the board and obtain from the board a license so to do. Unless each person shall have obtained a license as aforesaid, it shall be unlawful for him to practice in this State; and if he shall practice medicine in this State without first

having obtained such a license, he shall be deemed to have violated the provisions of this Act. All applicants for a license to practice medicine or for a renewal of any such license which has been revoked, shall furnish the board with evidence of good moral character. Applications from candidates to practice medicine and surgery in all their branches shall be accompanied with proof that the applicant is a graduate of a legally incorporated medical college or institution in good standing with the board. The board shall have the power to revoke the certificate granted to any applicant who makes any misstatement of fact in his application for examination. Each applicant shall name his system of practice and no person shall use the name of any system unless he holds a certificate from the board.

Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That before any person who obtains a certificate from said board may lawfully practice medicine and surgery in this State, he shall cause the said certificate to be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the county in which he resides. The certificate shall be recorded by the clerk in a book kept for that purpose. It shall be indexed in the name of the person to whom the certificate is granted. The clerk's fee for recording a certificate shall be the same as for recording a deed. The clerk shall make a report to the secretary of the board on the 31st of December each year, of all certificates registered with him. Each applicant receiving a certificate from the board shall cause same to be registered within thirty days.

Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That said board shall be empowered by this Act to pass upon the good standing and reputability of any medical college. Only such medical colleges will be considered in good standing that possess a full and complete faculty for the teaching of medicine, surgery and obstetries in all their branches; that afford their students adequate clinical and hospital facilities; that require attendance upon at least 80 per

cent, of each course of instruction; that gives four graded courses of instruction, the aggregate of which amounts to at least one hundred and sixteen weeks, exclusive of holidays, of at least forty hours each week, and at least forty-two months must have lapsed between the beginning of the student's first course of medical lectures and the date of his graduation, each session composed of twenty-nine weeks of actual instruction, with at least 60 per cent. of laboratory instruction in the first and second years and a minimum of 50 per cent. of clinical work in the third and ourth years; that require an average grade in each course of instruction of at least 75 per cent. in examination as a condition of graduation; that fulfill all their published promises, requirements and claims respecting advantages to their students and the course of instruction; that require a preliminary educational requirement equal to that specified by this Act; that require students to furnish testimonials of good moral standing; and that give advanced standing only on cards from accredited medical colleges. In determining the reputability of a medical college the right to investigate and make a personal inspection of the same is hereby authorized.

Sec. 8. Be is further enacted, That beginning with the session of 1911 and 1912, each medical school or college in good standing with the board shall have a preliminary educational requirement for the admission of students, to-wit: a certificate of graduation from an accredited high school, (as published in the catalogue of each State university) State normal school, college, university, academy, or a certificate from a county school commissioner certifying that he has satisfactorily passed an examination equivalent to that of an accredited high school.

Sec. 9. Be it further enacted. That in the discretion of the secretary-treasurer of said board he may issue temporary license to an applicant, which shall have the