AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. QUACK DOCTORS. NEW YORK. April 8. flow deeply popular folding is aroused Dy revelations of the activities of lake physicians was revealed when a jury convicted a so-called quack of the •second degree of manslaughter following the death of a little girl from diphtheria. He treated the patient by attempting spine adjustments, which medical winesses declared showed woeful and dangerous ignorance, coupled with criminal negligence. The District Attorney, expressing satisfaction at the (onvietion. declared: 'lt will prove to the public the groat danger of permitting quacks to operate on the sick: and will also prove a warning to quacks that, they cannot undertake what they are not qualified to do.’ Defendant brought in his defence witnesses who admitted under examination that scores of illiterates.* especially a large group of taxi-driver*, were practising similarly after correspondence courses of from four to six months. Defendant fates a maximum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment. ' NEW YOBK, April 9 At Dayton, Ohio, Lieutenant Van Wechtens, an internationally known flyer was killed when his plane went; into a tail spin and the motor stalled. From the same cause, Lieut Baymond Collins, of Detroit, and Lieut. Seifert of Chicago, both considered expert pilots were fatally injured at Mount Clemens, in Afichigan. i