OVERSEAS DOCTORS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19199, 4 January 1928, Page 2

OVERSEAS DOCTORS.

RECIPROCAL AGREEMENTS. QUESTION FOR PRIVY COUNCIL. (rzou oca owx coßassrosDiai'.) LONDON', November 25.

Sir Donald MacAlister, presiding at the opening of the 126 th session of the General Medical Council, announced that the committee considering the method of preparing the next British pharmacopoeia, had practically completed the taking of evidence, and would proceed to the drafting of its report. The Executive Committee had received communications through the Privy Council from Quebec, Ontario, and New Zealand which indicated a disposition in those parts of the Empire to withdraw from practitioners registered in the Medical Register, the privileges of practising within their respective territories which had hitherto been accorded them in virtue of reciprocal agreements made by Order-in-Coun-cil. Ground for the withdrawal seemed to be a desire to protect certain professional interests. If no modification of the views held by the provincial authorities on the subject could be brought about, the Privy Council would have to consider whether the privileges granted by this country to practitioners from those British possessions now registrable on the Colonial list of the register could justly be continue-d. Referring to India, Sir Donald said it was learned that definite steps had been taken to bring before the central Legislature the establishment by the agency of an all-Indian Council some form of control of Indian standards of professional qualifications.