On Tuesday the House of Commons considered the position of
the osteopaths and other irregular practi- tioners. Dr. Graham-Little in moving that there should be an authoritative inquiry maintained the straitest doctrine of the General Medical Council and in effect condemned all irregular practitioners. Mr. C. Atkinson moved an amendment, the object of which was to secure for irregular practitioners with approved qualifications the benefit of recognition and registration. Mr. Neville Chamberlain sanctioned neither of these lines. He thought that the public did not desire to be cut off from any efficacious treatment, even though unorthodox, and that, on the other hand, it would be impossible to set up any Board which could assess the skill of osteopaths. In these circumstances he thought—and we think so too—that the best solution would be for the British Osteopathic Association to create its own colleges. He foresaw that if that were done there would be a gradual conforming of their curricula to those of the General Medical Council.
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