(1)

Reference to Plebiscite Form

(2)

Classification of professional work

(3)

Registered medical practitioners either resident in Great Britain or serving in H.M. Forces at home or overseas
(55,842 plebiscite forms issued)

(4)

Medical practitioners with foreign qualifications resident in Great Britain who are for the time being registered by the General Medical Council
(1,233 plebiscite forms issued)

Dis-
approve

Dis-
approve

Dis-
approve

The work carried out by staff of the British Medical Association for the purpose of obtaining a plebiscite of the medical profession on the matters set out in column (1) of the above Tables was directed and supervised by our representatives continuously from its start on 27, January until 17, February, 1948. The completed plebiscite forms received during that period were examined only by our representatives and by staff of the Association working under our supervision and under pledge of secrecy and were retained under our control from the time of their receipt at B.M.A. House until their destruction in the presence of our representative on 17, February, 1948.

We satisfied ourselves by appropriate tests:
(1) that all reasonable steps were taken to furnish a plebiscite form to every registered medical practitioner either resident in Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland ) or serving in H.M. Forces at home or overseas and to every medical practitioner with foreign qualifications resident in Great Britain who was for the time being registered by the General Medical Council;
(2) that the figures set out in the foregoing Tables I, II, and III are a correct summary and analysis of the replies received at B.M.A. House up to and including the second post on Monday, 16, February, 1948.