The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
The "Warmest" Petition Pre-
sented the Legislature.
AFTER THE MEDICAL BOARD
WANTS THE SAME ABOLISHED
RIGHT AWAY.
Cites Alleged Instances of Gross In
justice on the Part of the Ex-
aminers-He Spares None in His
Bitter Denunciation of Men and
Methodist Most Remarkable
Document Generally Distributed.

In seven pages of nonpareil type,
| forming communication to the sew
eral members of the legislature, each
of whom has been supplied with a
copy, o. H. Dogge, NJ. D., A. Kink,
Otto Schmidt and C. B. Prill, denounce
the medical board as fraud.
The petition, as stated, is very
| lengthy one. 1t prefaces itself with
the declaration that persons engaged
in the practice of medicine have as
many rights under the constitution as
any other class and then alleges that
the medical law and the medical board
Is doing an injustice TO large class.
The law is declared unconstitutional
because it gives the board quasi
judicial powers and is in conflict with
section five of the constitution of the
United States and sections l and of
the constitution of Utah, both of which
provide that mo person should be de-
prived of life, liberty and property
without due process of law"
Petitioners allege that the board is
dark lantern organization and cites
resolution from its records, alleged to
read:
On motion, duly seconded, it was
resolved that the utmost secrecy be
observed as to the meetings of this
board, and that no member make
known its action"
This, in the language of petitioners,
is enough TO stamp 1t as utterly in
competent and disqualified to sit in
judgment upon a free American citizen.
Petitioners then make a few allega-
lions of which the following are copies:
l. We charge that the board unlaw
fully and illegally issued licenses to
parties not entitled thereto
2. That some members of said board
are incompetent and are not qualified
TO act, for the reason that some of
them do not possess the qualifications
requisite in that they have not attend
ed any medical college for a length of
time sufficient TO give them the learn
ing or knowledge to conduct an ex-
animation or pass upon the liability of
an applicant, some of the members of
said board not having attended any
college for a period of time exceeding
one year, and some of them not having
attended for period exceeding eight
months.
8. We charge the medical board with
fraudulent and dishonest conduct in
this, that shortly after it's organization,
to wit, during the months of January
and February, 1898, medical practi-
TONERS within the territory, duly COM
piled with all of the provisions of the
act, and paid the money required, and
that the board, Notwithstanding that
it refused TO issue certificates thus paid
for, had withheld the money paid by
such applicants for long period.
4. In unlawfully, maliciously- and
spitefully Withholding licenses from ap-
plicants who were and are entitled
thereto, and who fully complied with
all the requirements of the act.
5. In unlawfully deferring action
from month to month upon applications
duly made for licenses, with a view
thereby maliciously to injure and dam
age the applicant by circulating false
malicious and slanderous reports as to
such applicant that he was not author
lied to practice, and could not procure
a license.
6. In deliberately preparing false and
malicious charges against a physician
applicant for license who had fully
complied with the act, with the view of
using such false and malicious charges
as an excuse for a resolution depriving
him of his practice.
Then follows the case of DR.. Dogge
which was aired in the courts in Aug
ust, 1893. The evidence may he all
right for a medical work but wouldn't
look well in print.
The case of Dogge is a lengthy one
but those of DR.. Green of Heber City,
Dr. a. S. Davidson of Mt. Pleasant, and
DR.. Woodring of Mt. Pleasant, which
are also cited are brief.
Petitioners in this case use the sin
gular number in allegations:
Il wish to call your attention to the
arrest and prosecution of Mrs. Dr.
Green of Heber City, lady practicing
in competition with fellow by the
name of Lindsay, and of Cockney
speech and action. 1t seems that Lind
say, failing to get practice had the
good lady arrested and with the aid
of the boards secretary dragged her
into the courts and tried all manner of
means to scare her out of the country
but here again an honest jury declared
in favor of the people and against
medical rings by saying that Mrs Dr.
Green was not guilty. But Lindsay
and the board had done all they could
to besmirch the good name of an hon
est person.
DIR. A. L. Dawson of Mt. Pleasant,
this state, did not escape the venom
Gus sting of the board, for, by its die
tation, one of its fiapdoodles by the
Allen Fowler and Allen, swore that he
was practicing contrary to law. Let
US look at this case a minute. At the
time DR.. Dawson was arrested he had
applied to the board for license, and
was awaiting an examination. The
lower court IOunU MIN guilty, the |
higher court by jury trial declared Dr.
Dawson was unnecessarily and cruelty
prosecuted and bled of his money. The
beard got in its work.
1T will be impossible to enumerate all !
the people who have been injured and
prosecuted by the board, but it would
make this review lacking if the case
of DR.. Woodring of Mt. Pleasant, was
left out. In DR.. Woodring this state
has a gentleman and a physician of ma
tional reputation-a man whose honor |
no one dare question Yet the doctor |
has failed to receive justice regard
less of the fact that ne has passed |
an examination before the board and |
presented his diploma.
The United States has seen fit to |
honor the doctor as examining surgeon,
but this board in Utah, in bestowing |
licenses among favorites, overlooks |
competent and worthy practitioners"
But this isn't all. Petitioners set
up a startling state of affairs in the
When the legislature of 1894 met, ii !
repealed the law of 1892, and in its
place passed a registration law, but
when it came to go to the governor it
'ound him drunk, and also under the
care of DrS. Fowler and Dart The
clerk of the board was also in attend
lnce upon his honor, and as the gov
,rnor was unable to write, Mr. McIn-
yre wrote out the changes the board
wanted and the governor is supposed |
o have grunted his approval. Early
Sunday morning, when the hands OF |
he clock had been turned back, and
when all was turmoil, the veto of the