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IN accordance with the recommendation made by the Loveday Committee on Veterinary Education in Great Britain, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State for Scotland have appointed a Committee to inquire into the extent and effect of veterinary practice in Great Britain by persons Who are not registered veterinary surgeons, and to make recommendations as to any measures which may be desirable to limit or regulate such practice. The Committee is constituted as follows: Sir John Chancellor (chairman); Mr. A. C. Brown; Sir Daniel Cabot, chief veterinary officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; Mr. J. W. Salter Chalker, chairman of the Diseases of Animals Committee of the National Farmers' Union; Mr. Charles Dukes, general secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers; Prof. James Gray, professor of zoology in the University of Cambridge and member of the Agricultural Research Council; Mr. C. M. Holmes, vice-president of the Association of Unqualified Practitioners and Animal Castrators; Mr. W. F. Holmes, member of Council of the Kennel Club; Mr. Robert Hobbs, member of Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England; Mr. W. D. Jackson, past president of the National Farmers' Union and Chamber of Agriculture of Scotland; Sir Louis Kershaw, member of the Loveday Committee on Veterinary Education; Lieut.-Colonel P. J. Simpson, member of Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.The Secretary to the Committee is Mr. G. H. Higgs, of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, to whom communications should be addressed at 99 Gresham Street (First Floor), London, E.C.2.
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Veterinary Practice by Unregistered Persons. Nature 154, 111–112 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154111d0
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