GRAND JURY'S COMMENT

Evening Post, Volume 65, Issue 65, 17 March 1924, Page 7

GRAND JURY'S COMMENT

QUACKERY IN AMERICA.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALJA.N-XEW ZEAUND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, IStli March. The Hartford Grand Jury, which has been investigating the medical frauds foi- five months, has returned a presentment charging members of the State Beard of Medical Examiners with fraud" and dishonesty, and adding that certain members of it connived with officials of the extra State College at giving the graduates of this institution special consideration if they took the Connecticut examination. The presentment specifically condemns two Boston colleges, one Kansas City, and one St. Louis College, stigmatising the last as a diploma mill which apparently moved heaven and earth to procure favours from Connecticut examiners. The jury intimated that, if tho latter had done their duty, those students would never have received certificates. They received them only by fraud, deceit, and disobedience. The jury concludes: "We have not completed our investigation. We must inquire into the 'so-called 'healing arts,' because Connecticut offers a field for exploitation to persons practising cults and questionable theories not permitted elsewhere in tile United States.