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course, I used to point out to him that you ought to get after the county medical societies who could really control this if they would but expel men from their membership if they were not entirely up to scratch. If somebody brings a suit against a doctor for malpractise and proves that he committed an abortion, the county medical societies will hustle him out in a minute, because that's court record and that's scandalous. But all these other things they just don't do anything about. I remember the Governor saying, “We ought to get after them. We ought to make them do it.”

We never got anywhere, I may say, with the county medical societies, largely for lack of time, energy and people to keep in touch with them. The good men in the county medical societies are awfully busy men. We in the Department of Labor were awfully busy. We didn't have any field agents to go around and see them, although we got cooperation from them on the education of the men in the county medical societies with regard to the recognition of industrial and occupational diseases. It was one of the best things we did, because doctors didn't know how to diagnose cases of industrial poisoning which came right to their offices. We got good cooperation from them on that, but when it came to taking action against a fellow physician because he didn't make an honest estimate of somebody's