QUACK DOCTORS
PUBLIC WANT PROTECTION. More protection shonld he given to the public against quackery, said Dr. R. Traey-Inglis at the sitting of a committee of the Board of Health in Auckland. He gave particulars of a case in which he said a working man was paying the whole of his wages to a quack for the treatment of an incurable disease of which he subsequently died. Moreover, anyone had only to go down tho city to see the number of people going to quack establishments. He had been informed by a lift-man that from 200 to 300 people daily visited one of these establishments. The element of faith-healing was so strong in many of tho diseases supposed to he treated that quacks generally had no difficulty in finding people who would swear by cures. Also, they ofjen succeeded by diagnosing a complaint, such as cancer, from which the patient was not suffering, and then pretending to effect a cure.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11295, 22 August 1922, Page 5
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