More protection should be given to the public against quackery. said Dr R. Tracy-Inglis at the sitting of a committee of the Board of Health in Auckland on Thursday. states the “ New Zealand Herald." He gave particulars of a case in which he said a working man was paying ihe whole of his wage: to a quack for the treatment of an incurable disease of which he subsequently (lied. Moreover, anyone had only to g-) down the city to see the number of people going to quack establishments. We harl been informod ’53- a lift~man that from 200 to 300 people daily visited one of these establishments. The element of faith-healing was so strnng in many of the diseases supposed to be treated that. quack: generally Quad no difficulty in finding people who would swear to curse. Also. they often sueoeeded by diagnosing a Complaint. s'wll as cancer. from which the patient was not suffering, and then pretending to eflect a cure.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16818, 22 August 1922, Page 2
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