Show URGE APPROPRIATION TO PROSECUTE FAKE PHYSICIANS OF STATE County and aid District Officers Charged With Neglect of Duty in ill Medical Report Setting forth that tile the disinclination on the part of ot county and district au authorities au- au to criminal practitioners practitioners and take fake aleo doctors has hampered ham ham- pored the state board In Its Us work t and n necessitated tho the employment of ot gp special cuLl cial coun counsel el to deal with these people tho biennial report of ot the stale state board boar of or medical examiners was flied filed w with th governor go yesterday Tho The report urges es that a n. special ap appropriation appropriation ap- ap of at 2000 2600 be made for tho the purpose of ot prosecuting mountebanks and fakers with which the tho state is declared de do- c. c dared daled to be bo overrun The Tho Important part of or the report fol fol- I lows lows' ons on's The board boar during the past two years cars has concentrated Its efforts toward these charlatans and suppressing sup sup- pressing tho the criminal traffic that exists Wo havo have succeeded c In convicting two of tho the most t notorious criminal abortionists ts in this tills stat state who sho openly conf confessed to in ha having performed hun hun- rc J of criminal operations In order to revoke ro the licenses of these two criminals tito th hoard board had hail to spend for tor legal al help Tl Tit ls s money was paid out of funds re received from applicants for me medical licenses Ic leaving l us with a deficit of or 2 It is obvious that the board is helpless helpless help help- less to further prosecute offenders against the tho medical laws law's on account of lack of funds Wo We firmly believe that If It sufficient funds were vere placed at the thc disposal of ot this board to employ a qualIfied agent to systematically follow up th these sc persons who defy disregard and violate the law Jaw to the thc detriment of ot the peo peoples people's health we would woul soon bo be able to rid the state of these parasites The disinclination on the part put of ot count county and district attorneys s 's and other othor officials to properly enforce the tho law whether It be tie from pressure of ot business or 01 otherwise makes It necessary for tor the board hoard to employ special counsel in order to obtain conviction We Wo desire to emphasize this one fact that the operation of this board boar in tho the prosecution of persons under the medical act Is Js entirely for th protection protection tion of oC the citizens of this commonwealth commonwealth commonwealth common common- wealth n against unqualified and unscrupulous unscrupulous unscrupulous per persons ons who desire to practice medicine and surgery without proper qualifications u Cica In view of the facts stated above c the me medical ical board which has bas never yet ret received an appropriation of or a single dollar unanimously requests an appropriation appropriation approprIation of at 2500 2500 to cover covel the work worl of ot safeguarding tho the people against persistent por- por of or the law for the tile nc next t two years two Twenty licenses to practice medIcine med med- and sur surgery el were ere given b by the tho board under the reciprocity n agreement with other states and four forty hmo have been granted ranted by hy examination and nineteen nine nine- nineteen teen under tho the law Jaw pertaining to ob oh- |