Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-30
THE STATE HEALTH soARO
DR.. Reeves, Its Secretary, Asser.s 49, ~
Yery Positive Facts in EquaiAy fosaAlse
and UnmiOtakable Language. g

| on the State Board OF Health over the s,sn
ture of Ion" In to-days issue, anotner
piece on the same subject, appears IN Jour
columns.
or all the towards, falsifers aud SANDER
era that annony and disgraee secisty Hone
are 80 low and deSpieable as those VINO
write their scurrility over anonyHouA sigma
lures. -
The two articles above referred to--wrlt'
! ten, no doubt, by the same person nom
personal motives-fully jusifyth opinion
that their author is base coward ana
wilful falsi6er and slanderer
For example, in his performance IN lsst
Saturdays REGISTER "Ion" shows bis oe-
Rberate purpose to misrepresent the rutn;
He says: 1--WE End by report Of this Board
that the receipts from special tax fees etc.
from June I3th, 1881, to August luth,
1853. were $l,745; disbursements
we're $224l.5l. The excess of disbnIse-
uents over receipts were 81, 1861, snes tQa
this 10 30 paid By the State, mAy De added
the public printers bill of no shall amount
and The modest salary Of the secretary
of the board, $500 per GnnHm. The
italics are nv own, and are given in order
that a willfui falsehood may be pointed out;
| for the Financial Statement from which
"Ion" took his figures, in the very last para
graph of the Report, says; And thus II Is
! shown that, upon an average, the snnual
cost to the State for the support OF the
State Board of Health, including the salary
of the secretary, has in fact been less than
$500 per snnum.
II "a man willfully tell an untruth, and
the fact is proved, ever sfterward must his
utterances be taken with great caution
especially when he is moved by personal
motives, or to crafty malice.
Since the lst day of November, 1854,
when tie Court Of Appeals Of West Virginia
affirmed the Judgment OF the Preston County
Circuit Court against Frank M. Dent
for practicing medicine without certificate
from the State Board of Health, and de.
cided the constitutionality and validity OF
the act regulating the practice OF medicine,
here has arisen an organized attempt on
the part Of half dozen or more persons
who we're directly concerned IN the decision
of the Supreme Court to damn the State
Board of Health. The articles which have
appeared in the REGISTER are to that end as
a part of the organized plan. ,.
Did the reader of Ions" communication
in last SATURDAYS REGISTER notice that ne
had read everything in the Governor mess
age with care and much pleasure save that
norton which calls attention OF the leglsla-
tive body of the State to the workings OF our
State Board of Health" See how careful
his reading? and another example OF his
burpose to misrepresent the truth.
The Governor wisely recommended an
appropriation Of s., 1000 to bePiaeed IN tne
hands of the Executive, as q contingent
fund moi to be used by the State Board
of II ealth except in case OF emergency TO
resist an invasion of cholera, and then
only on approval of the Governor. let In
referring to this recommendation OF Gov
error Jackson, "Ion' says This Star Cham
ber board modestly asks for an apProprla
ton of So, 900 from now depleted State
treasury to further its wrongs upon the
people simply to crafty their selfish mo-
lives. Wrongs in attempting to save
The citizens Of West Virginia from vista
ton of Asiatic chOleraY How low such
statement 1t shows very plainly the char
scIer Of EIor,' who SAYS he is simply an
humble citizen living in the wildwood o.
Lewis county," and knows more Of public
sentiment than Governor JacksonT HOW
ridiculous!
The nameless correspondent from Marion
county, if that be his residence, is simply q
hireling, and equally un'ruthful in his state
ments. In speaking Of State boards he
says mo physician not Of their own
school shall ever pass their boards. Such
is the history Of the action of the State
Board of Health of West Virginia toward
| all eclectic physicians, ,rith hco exceptions,
who have desired to register and the said
board does not intend that any physician
not of their school. TO pass their board. "
THE itahcs my own.J A baSer falsehood
| was never written. Bot cowardIce and
lying always 60 hand in hand. -,
OF graduates of reputable medic7s col,
leres there have been registered:
Eecti, physicians y
Homeopathic ply scianS 10
Eclectic physicians in 10 years clos registered Il
Eclecerie physicians examined b. she Board ano
Homeopathic physicians registered in 10 years
HOmSopatSic physicians examined y the Board
rotsI pI 6f Eclectic D6yscians feSstered
Total Of Homeopathic ysicians reg Sected q
"a man, it is true, should havethe rights
ofa human being" but he should always
tell the truth if he expects to be regarded
as an honest man and gentleman
The medical profession Of Marior'eounty,
also of Lewis county, will, no doubt look
after the identity Of the little handful OF
malcontents who have occupied your col
umns for base puposes and to disgrace the
Stale If the ubiuu3tous parsonage who
has FURNISHED the spirit and language of
thts unjust attaclfson the State Board OF
Health will. ike an, hcnest man, come out
to public view, then ToM readers will have
an opportunity Of cor7ectlY measuring his
ability TO advise the people, the Supreme
Court. and both houss3 OF he Legislature.
Is he ignorant Of tifs fact that twentI.
nine Staaes have State Boards OF
Health? and that West Virginia stands siGe
by side with Illinois in sAe front rank oi
medical progress? Tha, 'he Virginia law
recognizes no diploma hut all persons do
,iring to practice in the Mother State must
, undergo an examinations before the State
Board of Medical Examiners. That NORTH
Carolina, Arkansas, California, Georgia
, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi
Missouri, TEXAS, New Jersey and New
I Hampshire have laws regulating the prac
!. rice Of medicine; and that to-day vigor
; GUS effort is being made in Ohio, Pennsyf
}, vania, New York and Massachusetts, to
amend their laws on the same subject b.
modelling after the West Virginia statute
, And is this not sufficient 70 stimulate pro
tessional and State prider
In all the States having medical prac
) tice acts there have beeHsrom time to tim
3 just such das,srdly attacks on the Board
Of Examiners as, have appeared in the CO
! unns OF the REGIsTER-all emAnating, y
. proxy, from ignorant preteD6ers in n
: practice of medicine whose nefarious per
formauces have been prohibited By IA
: strong arm Of law.
a In West Virginia there are OHc thoUsGn'
s and sirty legally qualified physicians VIII
are proud Of the distinction the law ha