The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-22
81 ARRESTS AS
RAIDERS HUNT
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Twelve Places Closed in
Fight to Stop Medical
ImpOstOrs.
TALES OF FLEEC1NG
START BIG CRUSADE

Mare ,han a dozen medical offices"
we're closed and iifty-four medical
heads" and their employees were arrested
in various parts Of the city yesterday
afternoon by fifty detectives under the
command OF Inspector Faurot. The
rsids we're made on warrants issued by
chief MAGISTRATE william McAdoo chars-
inc that the defendants practised neui-
cine without a license or i.aintained a
,,,hi,e nuisance, or both. Twenty-four
places were visited. In several appar-
emily nobody was around, indicating
TO the police mind that somebody sus-
pected that something was going 10
happen. 49,.
The crusade TO root out places where
the fears OF the ignorant have been
plsyed upon by INSCRIPTIONS persons
was planned and prosecuted by agents
nj the state Department OF Labor. the
County Medical Society. District Attor-
new Perkns's Office and the police.
II was caused by complaints made to
the State Department of Lalor by many
foreigners during the past year that
they had been defrauded OF large sums
o. money exacted as fees in medical
shops" for treatment OF various diseases.
imaginary and otherwise. The diseases
included nearly all the ailments In the
medical books, but most Of the so-called
"doctors''-some with degrees and others
vithout---made a speciality Of calling Tor
men as patients.
One Mans BiIl $1,000.
The investigators and police allege
that certain victims of the "doctoring
habit'-some really ILL., others not-hayo
paid as high as $500, $500 and $4,000
each for treatment One man is said to
have told the police that II cost him
$1,000 to get doctored. lie is convinced
that he is Just AZ badly off now as
when he started in.
Mrs. Marian II. Clark, chief invest.
gator for the Bureau OF Industries and
Immigration of the state Department OF
Labor, said she believed that more thal
100000 a year has been paid by the
victims of fake doctors in this city
alone.
one case Of which she told illustrates
the methods ALLEGED to have been EN-
ployed by one man. Or. Henry j. Schier.
son OF 3i5 Madison avenue, who was ar
rested in the conduct of his business
A man in the last stages Of consumy'
ton. she said. went to Schierson's OF
flee, accompa MED by his wife. He was
told that he could be cured for 5000
she said, and Or. Schierson gave him
n check in blank which the patient
filled in. The patient then went "a
Plcasantville, y. j.. where he died two
weeks later. His wife tried to get the
fee refunded, but DIR. Schierson refused
to pay back, saying that he would have
cured the man had he returned 10!
treatment.
More than one hundred witnesses
have been secured in the various cases
They tell great variety OF stories Oi
imposition. one man told OF spending
$500 for "radium water in the hope oil
being cured o. rheumatism. The
ordinary price for the quantity which "a
used, he subsequently learned, was 81
There was a case of the doctor who
said he would cure sicl. baby for S1j
hut the mother had only SlJ. so tn.
doctor took that amount and gave hci
bolt. OF patent m-dicin" for he n.
FAINT on the following day the mothp,
returned 10 the office with 81. all The
money she had in rhe world. and tn.
doctor took that also