The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08
Former City Physician Does
Not Appear for Examination
Before the State Medical and
Registration Body.
HE DOES NOT WANT CITY JOB
Is Now Employed by the State
Board of Health.
Doing Work That Does Not Re-
quire a License.

Apparently Dr. H. B. Wood. sus-
pended city physician. doesn't care
rap whether he has a license to prac-
tice medicine in Kansas or not. Any
way. when the state board of medical
examination and registration opened
its meeting and started the eXamina
tons at the National hotel this morn
ing, DR.. Wood was not numbered
among those present" He isn't TAX
ing the examination.
That means that DR.. Wood has vol
UNFAIRLY separated himself from the
job of city physician, although it is not
known positively that he would have
regained his place even if he had
taken the examination and secured the
license. DIR. Wood is doing special
work for the state board of health
work that does not require license to
practice medicine.
When Commissioner w. L. Porter
suspended DR.. Wood as city physician
he gave as the reason the fact that he
must have a city physician who had a
license to practice medicine. 1t be-
came necessary that the city physician
treat certain cases DIR. Wood had no
license He made application to the
state board for a temporary permit,
pending the meeting of the board for
the regular examinations. Although
Kansas has reciprocal relations with
several states. there was some hitch
and there was no reciprocity in the
case of DR.. Wood. Then Commission
er Porter suspended him and employed
DR.. H. A. Alexander temporarily.
Question Is Answered.
DR.. Wood has steadfastly refused to
say whether he would take the state
exa mination but he was not on hand
this morning and the question has
been answered. 1t is now up to Com
missioner Porter to name a permanent
city physician. There are half a dozen
that he will make the temporary APP
pointment of DR.. Alexa nder permanent
but Porter has not so stated DR..
Alexander has been working hard
since his appointment and has been
giving satisfaction. He is also on
speaking terms with the rest of the
physicians of Topeka.
Twenty-seven physicians in and out
of Kansas applied for certificates
from the board on the strength of re-
ciprocal registration in other states
holding such relations with Kansas.
At present there are thirty-four states
in the country having reciprocal rela-
tons with Kansas.
Six graduate physicians are TAX
ing examinations before the board.
some for the sake of obtaining recip-
rocal registra ton so they may move to
other states if they wish and others.
young men who have just graduated
from medical schools. a diploma
doesn't give a medical graduate any
thing these days excepting permission
to take an examination before the
board of examiners.
At the National Hotel.
The six taking the examinations
are: B. P. Hatch, Lebanon; w. A.
Adams. Easton; Martin L. Crawford,
Kansas City; DIR. Herbert W. GoOtee
Topeka: DR. Samuel y. Mollison. Cot
tonwood Falls; DR.. Thomas c. Brown.
Kansas City.
Those applying through reciprocal
registration in other states are: May
Ada Drew Gaylord. Beaver. Okla;
Walter Hahn. Arkansas City Kan,
Ben H. Day. Grenola, Kan; Wilson X.
Hobart, Topeka; Lafayette L. Henson,
Montevallo. No: Lawrence z. Downs.
Manhattan; Andrew J. Smith. Clay
Center; James A. Hockoday, Santa Fe.
Kan; Thos J. Wolfe, Aulne; Carl c.
Gunter, Clyde; Hugo E. Nelson, Shar-
on Springs; James Z. Musick. Cal
houn. Mo-: Donald r. Macleod.
Hutchinson; Frederick F. Lemon,
Freedom, Okla; A. Elizabeth Ingra-
ham. Hiawatha: Chas. f. Orlup, Enid,
Okla; Charles c. Conley. Elkhart,
Kan; Anna Bontros, Kansas City:
Robert B. Hutchinson. Council Grove,
Martha NJ Madston. Beloit; James G.
Kennedy, Plankinton. S. D.: Leslie c.
Bishop, Topeka; Thomas A O'Connor,
Topeka: Alice L. Goetz Lawrence;
Arthur B. Cullum. Hennessy, Okla