The Association of Certifying Factory Surgeons was founded in 1888 and was based in Manchester.
Meetings were regularly held in other industrial towns and cities, such as Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham and London.
[1] Certifying surgeons were first appointed under the Factory Act 1833 which required that a child between the ages of nine and eleven required a certificate from a doctor stating that they were eligible to work.
[4] The 1911 Annual General Meeting was held in the Trocadero Restaurant and reported extensively in the British Medical Journal.
[5] In 1920 the BMJ reported on the unsuccessful campaign against the reduction of fees for factory surgeons associated with the wartime economies.