Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-06
ALL NOMINATIONS
Made by GovernorH. B. Cleaves
Confirmed by Council.
First Annual Report Of Board of Med
icaI Registration.
Annual Report Of Fish and Game Comm's-
sioners-0ther Business.

berland. andWainwright Gushing of Fox
croft.
The regular nominations were con-
firned
Tho trustees of the Eastern Maine hos
pital drew SO, 600 on the appropriations
The trustees Of the State Normal school
at tiorham drew $1,000, making $500
drawn of the appropriation of $500 The
work on the building is progressing FAST
the stating having already been com
pleted
The Supplement to the Revised Stat
utes, compiled by Hon. E. ID. Freeman Oh
Yarmouth, was presented to the Governor
and Council for il spection. The work was
hieh!y spoken of. and is most useful
work to attorneys especially.
1t contains the Public Laws OF Maine
for the years 1885 to 1895, inclusive, ar
ranged to show each new enactment, and
the present reading Of each amended sec
ton under its appropriate chapter, uni
form in order and method with the Re
vised Statutes Of 1888.
The first annual report of the board Of
registration of medicine was submitted to
the Governor and Council, Thursday.
The board was created at last year 5
session of the Legislature, consisting of
Sumner Laughlin, NJ. d., OF Bangor
f. F. Vose, NJ. D., Portland; John Lord,
NJ D., Eiddeford; Austin l. Harvey,
N. D., Newport; a. X. 7. Meserve,
NJ. D., Portland; and Robert j. Martin,
NJ. D., Augusta.
The report gives to some extent the
work of the board for the year.
The law divided those entitled to regis
tration, previous to the first day of Jan
uary, 1896, into three classes:
First-Those persons practicing medi-
cineo or surgery for gain or hire as liveli-
hood in this State at the time of the or
ganization Of the, board, to wit July 9,
1895, who were graduates of some legally
chartered medical college or university,
having power to confer degrees in medi-
cine.
Second-Those persons who had been
Of medicine or surgery in
the State from March 27, 1892, to March
81, 1885, and
Third-Those persons belonging to
neither of these classes who should be ex
AHMED and found qualified to practice by
the board.
The report says
"a considerable number Of persons, es-
pecially exempted by law, have applied
for registration, such as clairyoyants, etc.
Many persons praeticing dentistry claimed
the right to register as surgeons A few
others, dentists, whose applications seem
to prove that they had practiced more
thanmere dental surgery for the three
years past, were admitted to registration,
and undoubtedly some Of the other classes,
magnetic healers, etc, whose
history was not known to the board, have
succeeded in obtaining registration upon
the evidence furnished in their blanks.
The certificates of any of these classes that
have wrongfully been issued, will be re-
voked by the board.
The whole number of applications re
ouested and sent off for registration under
section g. has been 1875, of the applicants
for which:
Eleven hundred and sixty-two have
so have not returned the blank; Z have
returned it untitled and withdrawn it
afterward; & were sent to persons already
supplied; died before returning blank ;
So were refused registration ard their fees
returned; and 3 are pending for next
meeting Total of these is, 1875.
'Of the 1852 persons registered under
section 3, 1916 are graduates, and 146
those who have been practitioners for the
three years next prior to March 27, 1895
The 35 refused have been rejected for
various causes, the principal ones being
the failure to satisfy the board that the
institutions from which they claimed to
have graduated, were legally chartered
medical colleges or universities, having
power TO confer degrees in medicine, OF
that they had been practitioners Of medi
cine or surgery in this State for the three
wears next prior to the passage Of the act
or that they were practicing in Maine al
the time of the organization OF the board
to wit, July 9, 1895.
"Of the 1916 graduates registered, sos
report themselves Us regulars, 81 as
homeopathic, and II as eclectics; while o
the 146 three years practitioners, 81
claim to be regulars, Ii hOmeopaths. Al
eclectics, s botanics, and 90 claim to b'
electrics, specialists, herbatarians, clair
voyant and botanic, and root, herb ant
gum doctors The meeting adjourned
till Friday morning.
Fish and Game.
The report Of the commissioners Of in
land fisheries and game, Thomas H
Wentworth, Charles T.. Oak. Henry o
Stanley, was submitted the Governor ant
Council Thursday.
The report In part gives the following
"The popular and growing interest il
fish culture has had the consideration o
the commissioners early in the year, jus
passed, and, the product of the hatcherie
have been increased. For the salmon
propagation IA new weir has been con
structed at North Auburn for the paren
fish, and also a new weir and station q