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Show Medical Graduates Decreasing. While the number of persons engaging en-gaging in the practice of medicine in the United States has decreased somewhat some-what In the last two or three years, it Is still large enough to provide for the public needs. It appears that 6,960 physicians were examined last year for licenses to practice, as against 7,004 in 1910. 7,287 in M09 and 7,770 In 1908. Of tne 6,960 applicants for licenses li-censes last year nearly 20 per cent, failed to pass examinations. In the states of North Carolina, Massachur setts, Mississippi, Oregon and Tennessee, Ten-nessee, In which non-graduates of medical med-ical schools are eligible to examination, examina-tion, 330 applicants were ' examined and more than 38 per cent, of them failed. |