DIPLOMA MILLS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19203, 20 June 1924, Page 5

DIPLOMA MILLS

AMERICAN MEDICAL. SCANDAL.! PROMINENT DOCTOR SENTENCED. Prase Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, Juno 18. Received June 19, at 9.20 p.m.) A St. Louis (Missouri) message says that the State-wide investigation into the medical frauds, particularly the so-called 'diploma mills,” resulted in the conviction of Dr Robert Adcox, a noted St. Louis physician, - who was sentenced to two years in a penitentiary. It is stated that it was proved that Dr Adcox bribed the local superintendent of schools to issue to medical college registrants a certificate falsely declaring that. the registrant had completed a high school education, thus enabling him to enter a medical college. This is the State’s first conviction in connection with the medical frauds, and paves the way to sentencing a group of Dr Adcox’a associates.—A. and iS. Z. Cable. NEKS FOR. FURNITURE, F ACTOR Y-TO-lIOME, METHOD IS THE ONE, TO SAVE YOU MONEY. 4ft 6in OAK BED, carved panels, complete with wire mattress, £5. SINGLE OAK BED, complete with wire mattress, 57s 6d. WIRE STRETCHERS, folding legs, 255. OAK. TABLE, oval top, screw extending. £7. HALL SEAT, with umbrella rack, 47s 6d. CARD TABLE, folding baize top, 355. OAK WARDROBE, 2 doors, load light panels, £3 ss. NEES, THE FURNITURE PEOPLE, Corner Hanover and Harrow streets. LATE NIGHT FRIDAY. —Advt.