The volume of medical discontent with the Insurance Act has
steadily grown during the week. It is true that an As- sociation of Medical Men willing to work the Insurance Act has been formed at Edinburgh, but the promoters have judiciously declined to divulge the number of applicants for membership. As a matter of fact medical Scotland is almost solid against the Act, and the council of her three great medical corporations has decided to form a Scottish National Medical Committee to enforce the demands of the doctors on the Insurance Committees. Sir James Barr, President elect of the British Medical Association, denounces the Act in Tuesday's Times as a palpable fraud on the public and a direct incentive to malingering, and has since signed the "pledge" issued by the Practitioner with the stipulation that, unless at least 23.000 members of the profession in Great Britain also sign, he is to be freed from it. The choice of that figure—which would render the Act unworkable—was ex- plained in our last issue. On Friday it was stated that half that number had already signed the pledge.
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