Medical Board.—There is a board composed of seven regularly qualified medical practitioners of not less than five years’ standing, appointed as provided in the act, and known as the “Newfoundland Medical Board,” whose duties relate, among other things, to the making and enforcing of measures necessary for the regulation and the practice of medicine (Act 1893, c. 12, s. 2, 3, 19).
The board is authorized to appoint examiners and fix times of examinations (ib., s. 5).
The secretary of the board is the registrar (ib., s. 7).
Register, Evidence.—It is the duty of the registrar on or before January 1st in each year to cause to be published in the Royal Gazette of Newfoundland a list of the names of all persons appearing on the register at that date, with their places of residence, titles, diplomas, and qualifications as conferred by any college or body, with the date (ib., s. 8).
Such register is called the Medical Register, and a copy thereof is prima facie evidence that the persons therein specified are registered according to the act; and the absence of a name therefrom is prima facie evidence that such person is not so registered (ib., s. 9).
Qualification.—The members of the board form a body of medical examiners of diplomas and degrees, whose certificate shall be the only license permitting the practice of medicine, surgery, or midwifery, except as hereinafter provided, provided the applicant for such license shall previously have obtained a medical diploma from a recognized college or university, or as hereinafter provided (ib., s. 10.)
Every person is entitled to have his name entered on the register on satisfying the board that he holds a degree or diploma from some regular university or school of medicine in good standing, and he shall then receive from the board a license bearing its seal, on the payment to the registrar of $5, and shall have his name entered on the register (ib., s. 11).
No such licensed practitioner shall be entitled to practise in any year without taking out from the board, before the 1st of January in every year, a certificate of practice for which he shall pay $1 (ib., s. 12).
Students.—The act provides the requirements for entering on the study of medicine, surgery, or midwifery in the colony (ib., s. 13, 14, 17).