Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-02-20
NEW MEDICAL
BILL WILL BE
READY TONIGHT
State Medical Examiners
Have Prepared an fct to
Raise STANDARD.
ASSEHBLfMAN RAMSAY
TO FATHER IT
special to the EVENING NEws.

Special to the EVENING NEWs.
! Trenton, Feb. 20:-Dr. Horace A
Norton. OF this city, who is Secretary
of the State Board of Medical Exam
liners said To-Day that the State Board
after several conferences with Attor-
ney General Wilson has prepared
new medical bill, aud would request
DR.. William K. Ramsay, Assembi yman
from Middlesex County to introduce
the bill when the session of the Leg
| islature convenes tonight.
Raise Medical Standard
We simply want to have enacted
into law a bill that will raise the
standard Of the medical profession in
| this State, and have the standard SO
4 high that we can demand other states
\ to accept our certificates said Or.
/ Norton, today, in discussing the new
/ BILL he added: = since the opinion Of
| Attorney General Wilson was delivered
last year the authorities of New York
have refused to recognize the eertif.
Gates of this State because of the low
standard of the requirements TO pass
the State Board in New Jersey. Wa
want law put on the statute books
of New Jersey SO that New Jersey
certificate will be recognized IN every
state in the union.
| In discussing the new bill Dr. Nor
ton said it provides for the appoint
ment by the Governor with the consent
of the Senate of board of examiners
to consist of nine members who shall
be regularly licensed physicians.
The Requirements,
| Applicants for license must be moro
| than twenty-one years of age, and OF
good character, and shall present =
certificate from the State Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction showing THAI
the applicant has had four years.
study in an approved high school or It's
equivalent, or that before beginning the
second year of his or her medical
course has passed an examination In
/ such academic subjects, as together
with the academic education obtained
would be equivalent to four years OF
/ study in an approved high school.
i The bill provides that after July /,
4 1915 no person can be admitted to the
i examination until in addition to and
succeeding the preliminary eS0cati0n,
: f1re- rsirasl nave ruurpfsren xfs0 d sat Isl.
factory eoure Of ona year in 4 rAe1W'
I nizea school ee aNt and
1 ny
~ NM 81 ss.ss
! 'sl Iess DIV 4
1, 1917, three years; after Ju5s
1918, four years, shall be added to III
requirements already stated
Must Have Diploma.
1t is then provided that the appli.
cant for license must produce 4 ainlc-
ma comforting the degree Of doctor Of
medicine from a legally Incorporated
/ medical school, which in the opinion
of the board was or is In good stand
ing, or a diploma eonferring upon the
4 applicant the right to practice all the
branches of medicine and surgery ia
some foreign country, and also studied
medicine not less than four full school
! years in school where lectures are
given at least seven months III each
year, and legally Incorporated
A proviso is made that candidates
for license who were graduated prior
to July 4, 1903 and have been enga-
4 ged continuously in reputable prae-
tice of medicine for at least Ave years
after graduation may be admitted 10
examination upon certificate showing
/ satisfactory evidence of moral eharas-
ter and of the three courses Of nedi-
cal lectures in different calendar years
and of a competent academic educa-
tion according to the standard of that
/ time.
Precision for Old Practitioners.
| A proviso is also made for eandi-
dates who were graduated prior to
| July q, 1894, and who have practieed
medicine since graduation.
A new scheme of examination is pro-
I vided in the bill and requires that ex.
aminations be both written and prae-
tieal It also provides that hereafter
| copies of the examination papers shall
be retained by the State Librarian for
only FIVE years, when they shall be
destroyed
The Board is given power to revoke
licenses for the following causes
Chronic and persistent inebrity; prae-
tiee of criminal abortion; conviction Of
the crime involving moral tnrpitude,
or for publicly advertising special abil-
1 ity TO treat or cure chronic or ineufa-
Bile diseases; where licenses have been
Illegally obtained under fraudulent
representations. Where such licenses
are to be revoked the holder of the Ii
eense is to be furnished with q copy
of the complaint and given hearing
/ before the Board. -All licenses must
/ be fled with the County Clerk where
/ the physician resides.
Practice Of Medicine. =
/ The definition of the words prac.
tiee of medicine Is defined as fol.
lows: That any person shall be re-
garded as practicing medicine or sur
| gerry who holds himself or her
self out as being able 10 diagnose,
! treat, operate, prescribe for any hui
man disease, pain, injury, defoTmitys
or physical condition, and who shall
either offer or undertake by any means
or method to diagnose. treat, operate
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