542 AND WESTERN MEDICINE Vol. XXXIII, No. I

Legal evidence regarding age is required in many places for the purpose of gaining entrance to school, CALIFORNIA BOARD OF securing the right to employment, to vote, to drive an automobile, to marry, and to enlist in military MEDICAL EXAMINERS service. Birth certificates are also of value in con- nection with jury duty, in criminal procedure, in the By C. B. PINKHAM, M. D. establishment of legal dependency, and other legal Secretary of the Board and social uses. Proof of citizenship is especially valuable with relation to the ownership of property, News Items, July 1930 the right to hold certain offices, to enter civil service, Dr. J.. B. Harris, recently elected president-elect of to gain admission to certain professions, to secure the California Medical Society, was the honored guest exemption from military service in foreign countries, at a meeting of the Sutter Club members last night and to collect compensation from the government. (Sacramento Bee, May 17, 1930). Birth certificates are used constantly to secure war compensation, to prove claims of widows and orphans, The Federal Radio Commission refused today to to secure state aid and other charities, to collect pen- renew the license of station KFKB, Milford, Kansas, sions, and to prove other matters where it is neces- which has broadcast a medical question box con- sary to establish parentage. There are very few activi- ducted by Dr. John R. Brinkley. The Kansas State ties, in fact, where the birth certificate may not be Medical Association stated Brinkley was broadcasting used to great advantage by any individual, and in objectionable matter (San Francisco Examiner, June many cases it is an essential requirement. 14, 1930). With the added complications that come into the expanding social system the birth certificate takes on R. H. Albrextondare (whose real name is said to an added significance. It is probable, in fact, that the be A. Hunhas) was reported to have been found time is not far distant when every individual will find guilty of a petty theft charge in the city of Los An- it necessary to carry a copy of his birth certificate geles recently and sentenced to serve six months in with him at all times. Many individuals, in fact, now the city jail. (Previous entries, June 1925; March carry small photographic copies of their birth certifi- 1926; February and December 1927.) cates with them, at all times, along with their license to operate a motor vehicle, club membership cards According to reports, Clayton C. Allen, unlicensed, and similar identifications. It may not be long before was arrested in , January 30, 1930, for this custom becomes universal in its application. violation of the State Poison Law, and it is reported that there was found under a cupboard drawer in his bathroom a one-ounce can of morphin, two empty Imperial Organizes Full-Time County Health Unit. morphin cans, one hypodermic outfit, and one bindle The board of supervisors of Imperial County have of morphin. organized the health department of that county upon a full-time basis. They have provided an annual Trial judges granting suspended sentences to those budget of more than $15,000 and have appointed Dr. found guilty of a criminal offense without first refer- Warren Fox, formerly city health officer of Pasadena ring the case to a probation officer, are acting in viola- and more recently connected with the Los Angeles tion of the law as amended in 1929, is the conclusion County Health Department, as health officer of Im- reached from an opinion submitted by Attorney- perial County. Doctor Fox will have adequate assist- General U. S. Webb . . . (Los Angeles News, May ance in public health nurses, dairy and milk inspector, 21, 1930). ___ sanitary inspector and laboratory technician, in addi- tion to office and clerical help. The Sixty days each in the county jail was the sentence Public Health Service will be responsible for a small imposed upon Dr. Roy Ankenbrand, twenty-five, portion of the annual budget, but most of the funds chiropractor, and Wilfred E. Collantz, thirty-two, for are provided by the county board of supervisors. Im- theft of money from perfume-vending machines (Los perial is the fourteenth California county to organize Angeles Illustrated Daily News, June 9, 1930). upon a full-time basis. Accused of having bilked hundreds of people in the Public Health Courses at .-The Division bay region out of several thousand dollars on the of Hygiene, Public Health and Physical Education representation that he was a member of the staff of of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has an- the famous Mayo Brothers Institute of Rochester, nounced courses in public health to be given during Minnesota, a man giving the name of "Dr. Donald C. the coming summer session of the university, June 30 Balfour is today at the city prison charged with to August 8. The courses offered cover many phases violating the State Medical Practice Act. He was of public health administration, including child hy- arrested today by Inspector J. W. Davidson, State giene, public health nursing, nutrition, vital statistics, Board of Medical Examiners, and Lieutenant of epidemiology, industrial hygiene, and many other Police James Milloy. Balfour admitted he had treated related subjects. Dr. John Sundwall is the director many people and had collected $10 from each of them of the Department of Hygiene and Public Health at for his efforts (San Francisco News, May 13, 1930). Michigan. According to the San Francisco Examiner of May 14, he paid a fine of $100 for practicing medicine without Status of Epidemic Poliomyelitis.-There have been a license and is quoted in the San Francisco Call- eighty-six cases of acute anterior poliomyelitis re- Bulletin of May 13 as stating, "I merely laid a hypo- ported in California since the first of the year. dermic needle on the arms of my patients . . . and Since many cases are not recognized as acute an- then while they looked the other way, I pinched them. terior poliomyelitis, it is important that all cases They all claimed I cured them when other doctors which may be at all symptomatic of this disease be failed." Barnum was right. recognized and placed under control without delay. It has been observed that in those years when Shoulders back, chin up, his gray pompadour poliomyelitis becomes unusually prevalent in the late stretching upward to a point five feet four inches and from the floor, Bernard Bernard, Sausalito physical spring early summer, there is nearly always an culture director, today heard himself fined $1000 by extensive and disastrous outbreak of the disease in Federal Judge A. F. St. Sure for teaching people how the late summer and early fall, when under normal to grow tall. A small fine was assessed against Louise conditions, the disease is seasonally more prevalent. Glover, five feet eleven inches. The two, according The prompt institution of control measures at the to postal authorities, used the mails to broadcast an present time, therefore, is of the utmost importance offer to make anybody taller for $8.75. Their income, in order that the chances for a widespread epidemic inspectors said, ran around $40,000 a year (San Fran- during the coming fall may be minimized. cisco Newus, April 30, 1930). July, 1930 MISCELLANY 543 Charged with second degree murder as the result With "Dr." Orlando E. Miller, erstwhile psycholo- of the death of Miss Jeannette Louis, 18-year-old gist, still a fugitive from justice as the alleged ring- Chinese girl, following an operation, S. Kayegama leader, Fred G. Collett, his colleague, is due for a and Mrs. S. Ewa (Eda-licensed midwife) will face second trial on mail fraud charges on May 17. "Dr." trial in Superior Court. The order holding them to Miller was President and Collect vice-president of the answer was entered today by Police Judge J. C. Rellimeo Film Syndicate, organized for the produc- Creighton. (Press dispatch dated Fresno, June 14, tion of motion pictures, but was only a stock pro- printed in the San Francisco Examiner, June 15, 1930.) motion scheme, the Government charges. Misrepre- sentations by mail were used to induce many persons to invest thousands of dollars in stock of the now Eyesight racketeers, under a heavy fire of.publicity defunct syndicate, it is alleged . (San Francisco in California, are still operating, Dr. Charles B. Call-Bulletin, May 10, 1930). (Previous entries, June, Pinkham, secretary of the State Board of Medical October, and November 1926; March 1927; March Examiners, said to day. .. . A pair posing as the 1928; December 1929.) "world-famous Dr. Miles of Chicago and his assist- ant" performed a bogus cataract operation on the According to reports of our Investigation Depart- eyes of an elderly woman near Fresno, netting $2250 ment, E. R. Morris, formerly radio announcer for (San Francisco News, May 28, 1930). Miss A. C. KMIC at Inglewood, was recently arrested on a Wellensick of Covina, California, recently reported charge of violation of the Medical Practice Act, it delivering $2300 to a pair of eyesight swindlers. being alleged that he, in association with Prince William Sachau of Turlock recently delivered $1000 Charles Stuart, was introduced to prospective patients in cash to a pair of these fakers, one of whom posed as "Dr. Morris" and charged $15 per bottle for as the famous Doctor Peers of , following the medicine. time-worn scheme of alleged radium water in the eye and immediately removing a film which was exhibited Bernard Bernard, physical culturist of Sausalito, to the victim as the cataract already dissolved. Mr. and his secretary, Miss Louise Glover, pleaded guilty Sachau has identified from the pictures appearing in yesterday to charges of using the mails to defraud. the pamphlet entitled "Eye Sight Swindlers" (pub- United States District Judge A. F. St. Sure imposed lished by the secretary of the Board of Medical Ex- $1000 fines. Bernard is five feet four inches tall. He aminers) Roy L. Martin and Elliott Wilkinson as has an apparatus and a course of instruction wlhich the individuals who mulcted him out of his hard- he claims, in his circulars sent through the mail, earned cash. would make short people tall. His yearly income was said to be $40,000 from the sale of this apparatus. The A. B. Gersabeck, also known as Alfred Bach, was government declared that it is impossible to increase adjudged guilty in the Justice Court of San Diego the height of adults, and Bernard and his secretary on June 4, 1930, and the following day was reported were indicted each on five counts (San Francisco to have been sentenced to pay a fine of $600 or serve May 1, 1930). 180 days in the county jail. "He was committed to Examiner, jail in default of the payment of fine." According to reports, Bach's "racket" consists in inserting an ad- The writ of prohibition brought by Dr. Francis J. vertisement for a nurse to take charge of a sanitarium Bold against the Board of Medical Examiners to stop which he proposes to open, and he is reported as the hearing of charges before that board, based upon having borrowed money from prospects to whom an alleged illegal operation, was dissolved by Superior he promises a lucrative salary. It is reported when he Judge Ruben S. Schmidt of Los Angeles April 23, appeared in court a half-hour prior to the time set 1930, and the hearing is scheduled for the coming for trial and saw the array of his victims waiting to July meeting. testify, he suddenly became too ill to appear in court and attempted to get a statement from a physician With an assortment of moonstones, charms, a which would warrant continuance of his case. (Prior rosary, curious nostrums and patent medicines in his entries, August and September 1926; July 1927; Sep- possession, M. C. Berryessa, basque voodoo doctor, tember 1928.) ___ was in jail today following his arrest for practicing medicine without a license. . Charms and amulets, Between six thousand and seven thousand narcotic used in casting spells, formea a large part of the prescriptions were written by Dr. C. M. Graham, equipment used by the voodo practitioner, authorities Inglewood physician, in the last eighteen months, believe . . . (Visalia Times-Delta, April 25, 1930). according to charges of federal officers today follow- ing the physician's arrest in his offices. Doctor Graham asserted he had given the prescriptions only Revocation of the medical certificate of Dr. John to relieve pain, but the officers declared his records Richard Brinkley, formerly well known in San Fran- showed at least one case where a narcotic prescrip- cisco as a gland specialist, was sought yesterday by tion was issued to the same person every other day the State of Kansas. Charges of gross immorality, for many months. They were written in the name of unprofessional conduct, fraud and deception, were Ben Franklin Jacobs, who is said by the officer to filed in Topeka by Dr. L. F. Barney, former presi- be serving a six months' term in the San Diego jail dent of the Kansas Medical Society, according to an for drug addiction . . . (Los Angeles Express, May Associated Press dispatch. Brinkley, who makes his 15, 1930). ___ headquarters at Milford, Kansas, was indicted in San Francisco in 1924 on charges of conspiracy in con- According to report, Walter Winston Hopson, nection with an alleged nation-wide "diploma mill." colored physician of Los Angeles, was arrested by His extradition was demanded, but refused by the the city and state narcotic squads on a charge of Governor of Kansas (San Francisco Examiner, April violation of the State Poison Law. He is alleged 30, 1930). to have entered into an agreement with Benjamin C. Colly, a druggist, that Colly was to fill narcotic pre- Members of the California Chiropractic Associa- scriptions by giving to the patient the narcotic con- tion, which had filed charges with Governor C. C. tents of prescriptions only. Colly in a signed state- Young against the State Board of Chiropractic Ex- ment to the police alleges that Hopson told him to aminers, failed to appear Saturday afternoon for the do this. hearing they had requested. After several hours' wait for the complainants to appear, James F. Collins, Dr. Eben Jones, 41-year-old chiropractor, held for director and_ professional and vocational standards, trial in Superior Court for the death of Mrs. Rose and Harold Landreth, private secretary to the Gov- Marshall of 5512 Willow Crest Drive, following an ernor, who were holding the hearing, allowed the alleged illegal operation, was released today by board to present its evidence in refutation of the Municipal Judge Louis Russell on $10,000 bail written charges previously filed (Sacramento Bee, (Los Angeles Herald, May 28, 1930). April 21, 1930).