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d) Fyrirhugaðar nýjungar í heimilislæknisþjónustunni: Dr. Jón
Sigurðsson borgarlæknir.
4. Umræður og fyrirspurnir.
5. Kaffihlé og sýning lyfjaumboðsmanna skoðuð.
6. Erindi: Byggðaþróun og áætlanir um byggðakjarna: Lárus Jónsson
viðskiptafræðingur.
Laugardagur 5. okt., kl. 10.00-13.00:
1. Erindi:
a) Postgraduate training of general practitioners: Fulltrúi frá
British Medical Association: Dr. James Cameron.
b) Fjármögnun heilbrigðismála: Páll Sigurðsson tryggingayfir-
læknir.
c) Hjúkrun í heimahúsum: Sólveig Jóhannsdóttir hjúkrunarkona.
d) Framhaldsmenntun heimilislækna og sérfræðiviðurkenning
þeirra: Ólafur Mixa læknir.
2. Almennar umræður.
3. Ráðstefnunni slitið.
Fy Igiskj al 3
P. V. G. Kolka:
HALF-A-CENTURY ANNIVERSARY OF THE ICELANDIC MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION
The Icelandic Medical Association was established in Reykjavík
on January 14, 1918! at the initative of the governors of the Medical
Society of Reykjavík at that time.
Since January was not considered a suitable time to commemorate
the event due to difficult communications at that time of the year,
the anniversary is not celebrated on the actual date but the year of
the anniversary.
It took quite a long time for doctors in Iceland to organize. In
the year 1891 and 1892 Ásgeir Blöndal, a district physician at Húsavík,
wrote two articles on the subject in “ísafold“. He called on the
Teachers of the Medical School to arrange a general meeting of
doctors for this purpose. They acted accordingly and proclaimed a
doctors meeting to be held in Reykjavík in the summer 1892, but
due to a lack of response no such meeting was held. At that
time there were only 3 doctors in Reykjavík and 27 in country
districts.
The first medical society in this country was founded by five
district physicians in the Eastern Quarter of the country. They con-
vened to establish the Eastfjord Medical Society at Eskifjördur on
July 16, 1894. Another meeting was held at Eskifjördur in the year
1896 where many noteworthy subjects were diseussed, but after that
the society was dissolved.
The first general physicians meeting was held on August 27-30th
1896 in the Lower House hall of the Althing under the chairmanship