17 APRIL 1926, Page 3

Now that Dr. Axham has gone the problem associated with

his name remains. Every sensible person earnestly desires that the medical profession should preserve its very high standards and should protect the public from fraud. Nevertheless the public does not think that it is really protected by a lack of discrimination which amounts to pedantry, and may even reach callousness as it did in the case of Dr. Axham. The functions of the General Medical Council now touch the life of the nation at so many points that the best thing would be for the - Council to include a certain proportion of non- medical members. No change in the statutes would be necessary.