Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-24
Veterinarians Oppose
New Sanitary Law

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1t appears lAat the PufpoS Oh 'hls
new piece OF legislation ."a1 original
ly intended to protect the hon-grau
uate practitioners from any sotal!ed
discrimination OF which they claim
they nave peer victims the past tour
years. IN drawing this Dill, a special
eHo was maze by the q ana
non-sraduale TO make 1t TAR and just
TO both. IN vie" OF the fact that
many OF lhe h~on-Sraduates are men
VINO through years or private study
and long experience have attained a
considerable degree OF prohclency III
veterinary science, a provision was
maze "hereDy any veterinarian VINO
could pass the examination prescrlD-
ed by the state board OF examiners
might then De appointed a deputy
state veterinarian 1t was further
provided that every veterinarian H.
cersed under the acts OF 1909 and 1911
TO practice veterinary medicine and
surgery should be licensed by the
new board to practice veterinary
medicine and surgery in all its
branches without examination.
This appeared to be as fair a prop
osition as could be Of, red and at the
same time maintain cur professional
standing with our sister statea in is
suing certificates and test charts for
live stock intended FOR interstate ship
ment, and even then We were not
positive that we were not overreach-
ing ourselves in thinking other states
would accept certificates of mallein
and tuberculin tests made by non-
graduates, even though they had
passed the state examination But for
all our provisions, this did not seem
to satisfy a certain number of legis-
lators and when: the bin; reached the
senate, although it was somewhat
shattered by amsndmentsain the house.
it was here on the 59tl day that it
received the finishing touches in a
provision of the following form, PRO
vided, that any veterinarian vino was
licensed to practice under and by vir-
tue of a license so to do by the Board
of examiners in veterinary: medicine
and surgery and who has practiced
continuously under such license, shall
upon petition sigred by Forty free
holders, owners Of live stock, be ap-
pointed 8 deputy state veterinarian !
by the superintendent Of, the state |
live stock sanitary board, and fur
Their, said deputy shall be qualified TO
inspect stock leaving or entering the
state"
At the, present tima,,I believe every
state in the union furnishes with live
entering the STATE, a certificate
of health including mallein snd sx-
bercuiin test charts, issued by assist
ant or deputy state veterinarians who
are graduates of recognized veterin-
AIRY colleges. Now is it fair for us to
presume they are in turn going to ac-
cept certificates of this same nature
from this state that are issued by
noa-graduates, even though kdey are
deputy state veterinarians? They viii
most certainly be justified iHs reject.
ing such certificates,
fne the past two years our veterfn
AIRY law has compelled our board of
examiners to license any person who
ca,Ild furnish afidayft as To. his ssIod