IMPOSTOR DOCTORS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18566, 26 November 1923, Page 9

IMPOSTOR DOCTORS.

VICTIMS IN AMERICA. DEPLORABLE SCANDAL. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 9.30 p.m.) NEW Nov 24. As the authorities extend their investigations into the allegations of the issue of bogus medical diplomas, deplorable details are revealed. The Connecticut State Health Department, which has been examining recent death certificates and investigating the circumstances of death, declare that at least 200 patients of impostor physicians in Connecticut alone died in most suspicious circumstances. One practitioner had six deaths wfithin a few months, one patient dying from an overdose of ether administered for a minor operation. Authorities estimate that possibly 12,000 patients of unqualified doctors died in the past five years throughout the country. Three* £uch practitioners at Hartford and New York, for whom warrants have been issued on charges of manslaughter, have fled. It is alleged that the owners of a college fin Kansas City and a college in Missouri which sold diplomas, organised a wide-reaching bribery system, whereby officials in many States received large sums of money for issuing illegally documents necessary to enable (impostors to practise medicine.