JAGIELSKI (Apollinaris Victor), d. 1920: Letter from Norman C. King to Dr. Ormerod...

Another member, Dr. Victor Jagielski, was a trial to the Censors from his first offence in 1883 until his sixth appearance before them in 1904. His first offence was that he engaged in trade; his defence was that as he was a foreigner (he was an M.D. of Berlin) he did not understand the by-laws. In 1886 he was in trouble again for advertising medicinal baths. By 1888 he had become the Resident Consulting Physician to an electrotherapeutic institute. He was admonished and told to sever his connection with the company. He committed a similar offence in 1896. When in 1898 he appeared for the fifth time the Censors' Board took a stiffer line, reminded him that he had committed a number of offences over the previous fifteen years, had been repeatedly remonstrated with, reprimanded, and warned. He was told to sever his connection with the baths or resign his membership. He resigned in June 1899, but by October as he had ceased his connection with the baths, asked to have his diploma returned. The Board declined his request. In 1904 Dr. Jagielski was found to be calling himself M.R.C.P., which he was no longer entitled to do. The Registrar reported this offence to the General Medical Council, which asked whether the College had power under its charter to take legal action against him. The Censors' Board replied that there was no such provision in the charter or by-laws, and that it felt that it had discharged its duty in reporting the offender to the Council. Dr. Jagielski was rebuked and told not to offend again, but was not crossed off the Register. A.M. COOKE MIST. OF R.C.P. LONDON Vol. III P. 905