The Suffolk County Medical Club. 
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scriptions, fines, or otherwise, shall be applied towards carrying out the objects 
of the club, together with the necessary expenses of management, according to 
the rules thereof. 
XX. All moneys received or paid on account of every particular fund, or 
benefit assured by the club, for which a separate table of contributions is 
adopted, shall be entered into a separate debtor and creditor account, distinct 
from all moneys received and paid on account of any other benefit or fund. 
XXI. A separate account shall also be kept of the expenses of management 
of the club, and of all contributions on account thereof. 
XXII. Admission of Members. — Any person wishing to become a benefit 
member shall not be under sixteen years of age. He shall deliver to a steward 
of his parish or place a certificate of health according to the printed form issued 
for the purpose by the club, which must be signed by the medical officer under 
whose care he desires to place himself. No person shall be admitted a member 
if any one of his family, for whom he contributes, shall be actually suffering 
from illness, except by permission of the medical man under whose care he 
desires to place himself. 
XXIII. Each benefit member shall contribute for his wife and for all his 
children uuder sixteen years of age who are living at home, provided that 
any orphan children living with the member, and of whom he is the guardian, 
may be included therewith. 
XXIV. A benefit member shall be entitled to select any of the medical men 
who have attached themselves to the club, s\rbject to the approval of the 
medical man, as shown by his signature to the form of application for admis- 
sion. He shall not be allowed to change his medical attendant except at the 
end of each year, of which one month's previous notice must have been given 
to his steward. 
XXV. A benefit member shall not be entitled to attendance in sickness for 
himself or any of his family until he has been a member one full calendar 
month. 
XXVI. The quarterly contribution of a member shall be due on the first 
Monday in January, April, July, and October ; and shall be paid to his 
steward at the place and time appointed. 
XXVII. Fines. — Any benefit member not paying his contribution within 
fourteen days after it becomes due shall cease to be a member, but may renew 
his membership by paying a fine of half-a-year's subscription, in addition to 
the full quarter's subscription. 
Any member making a false statement as to the number or ages of his chil- 
dren, or entering any of them when to his knowledge they are in ill health, 
shall be expelled the club and forfeit all claim upon it. 
XXVIII. Contributions and Payments. — The rates of contributions by 
benefit members shall be according to the following scale, and shall be paid ' 
by equal quarterly instalment in advance. 
Man or single woman, 5s. per annum, or Is. 3c?. per quarter. 
Man and wife 9s. „ or 2s. 3d. „ 
Each child under 16 years of age, Is., or 3d. „ 
N.B. Not more than 5 children to be paid for in one family. 
Any benefit member, who has been a member of the club for six months,, 
shall be entitled to medical attendance for his wife in confinement, by paying 
to his steward the sum of ten shillings, and taking the club's printed form of 
order to the medical man, at least a month beforehand. 
XXIX. Any man who is also a member of a benefit society, which provides 
him with medical attendance, shall be allowed a reduction from his rate of. 
contribution of four shillings per annum. 
