Identifier: canadianjournalo20torouoft (find matches)
Title: The Canadian journal of medicine and surgery
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Medicine Surgery
Publisher: Toronto
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ssion at the annual meetings. A Committee of Inquiry was appointed by the Association toexamine into these matters. After several meetings the resultof the deliberations of this Special Committee was handed toCouncil, and its judgment was summed up in the followingrecommendations: That the office of the Association in Birmingham be closedand that the office be removed to London. That the Secretary be replaced by a paid General Manager,whose whole time should be devoted to the duties of the office. That these should be the collection of the subscriptions fromeither the local Secretaries of the Branches, or from such sub-scribers, attached or unattached, to the Branches, as preferred topay them through him. To overlook and arrange for procuring advertisements forthe Journal. To be responsible for the keeping of the books and correspond-ence of the Association. To overlook the office work, the printing of the Journal, andirenrrallv to nianaac the business of the Association, as distinct^
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82 Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery. from the literarv mid editorial work of the Journal, with wliie)),of course, he was to have nothing to do. These recommendations were carried out, and the entiremanagement of the husiness of the Association was transferredto London. Sir. Francis Fowke was appointed General Manager,and he entered upon his duties, January 1st, 1872. His was adifficult task. Xevertheless, he began his work with the deter-mination to bring it to a successful issue, and, though he had tolabor long and arduously before any great result was apparent,he had the satisfaction of seeing a tendency towards improve-ment from the beginning, and of knowing that he had the sup-port of every member of the Council, and the good-will of all inthe furtherance of his efforts. At the close of 1871 advertisements produced £1,992; by 1881they had risen to £6,089 ; by 1891 to £14,568. The issues of theJournal and the subscriptions for the same periods showedequally marked and en

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