"QUACK" CONVICTED
BOGUS DOCTOR'S WORK
VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER.
(DNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTBIGHT.)
(AUSiaALLW-NE\y ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) .. ■ NEW YOKE/Bth April Sow deeply popular feeling has been aroused by the revelations • of. the activities of "fake" physicians' was revealed when a iury convicted a so-called quack of manslaughter in the,- second degree, in connection with thfe death oj v- little .girl from diphtheria. '. The accused had treated, the patient by tempting spine adjustments which medi T cal witnesses declared showed woeful and dangerous ignorance, coupled with criminal negligence. ' . ■
The i District Attorney, expressing satisfaction' at the conviction, declared it would prove to the public the great, danger of permitting. quacks to oporatf" on the sick, and would also be a warning to quacks that they could not'"undertake what they were not qualified to do. .. ■: .
The defendant brought in defence witnesses who admitted, under examination, that scores of illiterates, especially a large group of taxi-drivers, wera practising similarly after correspondence courses of four to six months. The defendant faces the 'maximum sentence of twenty yaars' imprisonment. r
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 5
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173"QUACK" CONVICTED Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 5
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