FAKE PHYSICIANS
A MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
JURY CONVICTS
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.! (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
NEW YORK, April 8
How deeply popular feeling has been aroused by the revelations of the activities of fake physicians was revealed when a jury convicted a so-called quack of second degree of manslaughter following the death of a little girl from diphtheria:. "He. treated the patient by attempting spine adjustments, which a medical witness declared showed woeful and dangerous ignorance coupled with criminal negligence. The District Attorney, expressing sat-, isfaction at the conviction, declared that it will prove to the public tho great danger of permitting quacks to operate, on the sick, and also prove a warning to quacks that they cannot undertake what they are not qualified to do. The defendant brought defence witnesses who admitted under examination that scores of illiterates, especially a large group.of taxi drivers, were practising similarly after correspondence courses of four to six months. The defendant faces a maximum sentence of twenty years’ imprisonment.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 10 April 1924, Page 5
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