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Show Decision In Faith Cure Case. A Christian Scientist in Missouri who was accustomed to receive compensation com-pensation for tending the sick, attended at-tended a patient alleged to have had diphtheria and failed to report the case to the board of health in accordance accord-ance with a city ordinance requiring j physicians to report all cases of diphtheria. diph-theria. She was tried and convicted j of violating the ordinance and appeal- j ed her case to the supreme court on j the ground that the conviction was' op- I posed to the provision of the constitu- j tion guaranteeing religious freedom. I The supreme court held that the "con- I stitutional right of religious freedom j was in no sense involved in the ac- I tion," and that the case was improp- j erly appealed to that court. (City of J Kansas vs. Baird, 63 S. W. Rep. 495.) f |