MEDICAL REGISTRY. excuse. By an act approved March 12th, 1881, and the supplement thereto, approved March 22d, 1883, it is made the duty of every person pursuing the practice of medicine and surgery in this State to record his diploma, with date and place of graduation, or in case of twenty years' practice a certificate thereof in the office of the County Clerk of the county where the practitioner settled. While the law was not suggested by this Board, it is believed to be somewhat in the interests of the public health. It is right that the public should know how those who claim to be practitioners of medicine have been authenticated. Then if they employ incompetent persons they do it with less The errors of physicians are not so easily detected as those of druggists, and yet law is much more ready to protect against risk from the latter than from the former. Educated medical practitioners may suffer from the audacity of patronized ignorance, but the people are the chief sufferers. This Board has not felt itself charged with the duty of seeking more stringent laws as to medical practice, but has too much evidence that there should be severer limitations upon the assumption of so responsible a calling. There should not be a discrimination between different sects or schools, but between knowledge and ignorance, between adequate preparation and unskilled pretense. Until legislation in the general interests of the people shall give better protection it will be wise for the people to inquire more fully into the sources of authority for medical practice. Under the present law every form of diploma presented is placed upon file and is subject to the examination of those whom it may concern. Hence, foreign certificates, imperfect diplomas, and even persons with no other claim to medical practice except that they have prescribed for some one disease for over twenty years, have offered papers for file. These records are valuable for information although not indicating the fitness of each person registered. They also point to others who, without even the semblance of authority, are imposing upon the credulity and the health of citizens. The lists furnished this year are as follows: In order to secure more efficiency in the Township Health Boards of the county, Dr. Wm. C. Parry, of Mt. Holly, has been appointed District Medical Inspector. CAMDEN COUNTY. Apr. 2, '83 Jefferson College, Phila. May 1, '85 University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania. Mar. 10, '77 Jefferson College. University of Pennsylvania. Mar. 15, '62 University of Pennsylvania. Hahneman. University of Pennsylvania. Jefferson College. Apr. 2, '85 Jefferson College. CAPE MAY COUNTY. NAME OF PHYSICIAN. P. O. ADDRESS. DATE OF DIPLOMA. INSTITUTION CONFERRING DIPLOMA AND LOCALITY. Urquhart, George W....... Sea Isle City........ Mar. 10, '76 University of Pennsylvania. Urquhart, David C......... South Seaville...... Mar. 14, '79 University of Penna., Phila. Way, Julius.................... Sea Isle City........ Apr. 2, '85 Jefferson Med. Col., Phila. Blackwell, E. T........ Brown, Henry N... CUMBERLAND COUNTY. Vineland Brown, Lewis W. .... Carr, Henry H.... Davis, Theodore G. Bridgeton.. Hubbard, Charles H..... { Judson, Andrea Rice....... Dividing Creek.... Adams, John Lincoln.....) Bradshaw, John H.. Brown, Phoebe Day.. Brown, Jacobus S. ... Burn, Lucilla L......... Clossen, William Henry.. Fubricius, Julius A...... Frankendorff, H. von..... Fonda, Edw. Stanley..... Grube, Charles Henry... Glatzmeyer, Guilielmun... Hinkley, Livingston S... Hitchcock, Harlyro....... Heberton, William..... Hood, Bruno...... Harman, George W.. Jemison, Alcinous B. Kelly, Getrude Bride... Mulholland, John K... Van Metzradt, Hans..... Mieran, Charlotte S........ Pennington, Byron G..... Stoll, Catharine... Schurman, Margaret B... Welch, Durant Clark.... Vineland June 14, '48 Vermont Medical College. Mar. 1, '84 Eclectic Med. College, N. Y. Apr. 3. '47 University of Pennsylvania. May 12, '85 Col. of Phy. and Surg., N. Y. Mar. 8,77 N. Y. Homeopathic Med. Col. GLOUCESTER COUNTY. NAME OF PHYSICIAN. P. O. ADDRESS. Brown, H. N............ HUDSON COUNTY. ......... Weehawken Apr. 16, '85 Hom. Med. Col., N. Y. City. Mar. 6, '81 Eclectic Med. College, N. Y. Mar. 10, '84 Univ. of the City of N. Y. Mar. 1, '71 Bellevue Hosp. M. Col., N. Y. Mar. 6, '81 United States Med. College. May 22, '85 Columbia Med. Col., N. Y. July 4, '84 Apr. 3, '85 Hahneman Med. Col., Phila.. Sept. 1, '84 Bellevue Hosp. M. Col., N. Y. Sept. 28, '69 { '80 Long Island Col. Hospital. June 9, '83 { Collegii Hoscomii Insule Longæ. Jersey City......... May 16, '83 Columbia College. HUNTERDON COUNTY. Mar. 1, '68 Bellevue Hosp. Med. Col. |