"DIPLOMA MILLS"
AMERICAN MEDICAL SCANDAL
NOTED PHYSICIAN" SENT TO PRISON. '.' '
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(AUSTBAUAH-SEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NE\V YORK, ißth June. A report'from' St. Louis, Missouri, says that the State investigation into tho medical frauds, particularly the socalled "diploma mills," resulted in the conviction of Dr. Robert Adcos, a noted St. Louis physician, who was sentenced to.two years in a penitentiary. It was proved that Adcox bribed the local superintendent of schools to issue to a medical college registrant a certificate falsely declaring the registrant to have completed high school education, thereby enabling him to enter the Medical College., " f This is the State's first conviction in connection with the medical frauds and it paves the way to.the conviction'of a group of Adcox's associates.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 145, 20 June 1924, Page 7
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