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Show MEDICAL TEST FOR AOTOISTS French Doctor ays Some Drivers Not Fit to Handle Cars PARIS, Dec. 9. Medical examination examina-tion of chauffeurs and all automobile automo-bile drivers before Issuing fhern a license is proposed by the Academy of Medicine, following a report of Dr W. Flosjlnger. whose action was inspired in-spired by having been himself run Over and Injured a few weeks ago by it Parisian taxicab. "Many persons are driving automobiles automo-biles in France today who are so physically unfit for the strain of drlv-Ing drlv-Ing that they are an actual and deft-I nite menace to the lives of pedestri m and other automobiles." asiert'd Plesslnger The tests proposed by the acadt my Include those for heart and nervou reaction The l atter Is especially Important, Im-portant, says Flesslngcr. who demands that all drivers show a reaction of of a second before being given certificates certifi-cates entitling them to drive Authorities hero calculate that Jf the law Is passed nearly 46 per cohl of persons holding licenses would lm , them cancelled. |