The morning times., 1895-12-04
KEEPING Tab ON doctors
Bill Regulating Practice Of Medi-
cine and Licensing Physicians.
SENT TO SENATOR HARRIS
Com Inissioners Propose q board OF
Medical Supervisors and Three
Boards of Examiners Representing
the Three Leading Schools of Medi-
cine-An Must Have DiDlOmas.


The Commissioners yesterday sent to
Senator Harris a draft of q bill to regulate
the practice of medicine here aud to license
physicians and surgeons. Severe penalties
are provided for violating Its provisions.
They ask its early enactment.
The demand for a law Is pointed out In
the fact that the District. having no such
Jaw, is u resort for persons who ure ex-
cluded from practice OF medicine elsewhere
by statutes OF this kind.
The draft provides for the creation OF a
board OF medical supervisors consisting
OF the presidents OF the three boards or
medical examiners named in It,. together
with two persons not physicians holding
government office. They are to hold Of
flee three years. No two ma belong to the
sioners are TO have power to remove.
The board is to make regulations to
carry the law into effect, to supervise ex-
aninations, and issue LICENSES. Examk
nations are to be upon these subjects.
ANATOMY, physiology, chemistry, pathol-
ogy niateria Ineuica and thera pcutics.
hygiene stoiogy prac9cc x,eGo,nSy ol "aicins. me:
eases of the eye and the ear, medical 1uris-
prudence, and such other branches as the
board shall deem advisable. -..-s =
MUST HAVE DIPLOMAS.
Each applicant must present a diploms.
conferring upon him the degree OF doctor
OF medicine, issued by some meviicai college
authorized by law-to confer such degree.
Diplomas if issued prior 10 July l, 1879.
must be accompanied by satisfactory eyi-
dence that said applicant hls soudled iledi-
cine and surgery for not less than three
years prior to It's issue, and II issued subsfr
panied by satisfactory evidence that tle
applicant has studied medicine and sur
gerry for not less than four years prior 10
the issue of the uiplonia.-
Application for the license VIII De ma1e
upon printed form and the fee vii! be
$50. II must be IN two weeks before the
examination.
Thethree boards ofexaminers appointedby
the commissioners are To be OF the ailopathIc.
home opath hic, and eclectic schools, and
composed each OF five physicians in good
standing. OF the first board one member
will serve only one year, wo. wo years.
and two, three years. Jhcref ore, each
member is to be appointed to serve
three years No physician Is to be
member who has not pra ciiced here 81 least
five years. The homeopathic and eclectic
boards are to be chosen from a list OF
ten for each TO be submitted by majority
vote at meetings or tie societies Of these
systems of practice. These lists must he
submittc however, upon fifteen days
notice.
CHARACTER OF EXAMINATIONS.
Examinations are fixed fpr the second
October, and continue till all applicants
have been examined; also may be he'll at
other times. ert
a week before any examination the
list OF questions, and the, Upervlsors
are to select from theseiithe questions
for use; except that in theTa peutcs, prat-
fice OF medicine, and materiH medica, CUES
tions must be- in harm onyy'with the sys-
TEN of medicine selected by the candidate.
II a ma iority OF the supervisors think the
applicant has passed, they lwill issue a
LICENSE. '1 '--s'- e. TO
All graduates OF medical colleges who are
registered at the health office when the la W
pa sses O re to baye hcfnscs " dhout cost or
eXanlina ton. also any license OF a State
board with equivalent requirements.
The supervisors Will .nlake regulations
for examinations for the praCIice OF mid
wifery and issue licenses. sNosfee is to be
registered at the health eifiee-wiIl not be
subjected TO examination.
WHEN LICENSES Maybe REFUSED.
The supervisors may by vote or fuus
refuse license or revoke one FOR any of
the following easons: -f'
The emplo ynlent OF fraud or deception
in passing the examinations provided for
in this act, chronic and persistent in
the practice of criminal abortion.
of crime involving moral turpi-
tude Or publicly protesting In such manner
as to deceive the public to cure or treat dis
eases, injury or deformity.
Licenses are to be recorded with the
clerk or the District supreme court and in
the health office. The act does not apply TO
60 commissioned government su urgeons, To ply
slctans called from other States in special
cases or consulta ton, TO dentists in their
business, to cases of emergency, nor to the
use OF ordinary domestic remedies with
put fee or gift
The penalty proposed for violation of
the law is $500 fine or ten to ninety days
IN Jail, or both.