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money to pay detectives, so they had to be city detectives. We traced a number of cases where, on questioning, the claimants would admit that the doctor put something in the cut. I don't remember whether we sent any of those doctors to prison or not, but I know we recommended the revocation of the license to practise in one or two cases. It was heard before a State Medical Board. I think I must have left New York, because I have no recollection of what happened. It was probably toward the end of my administration and we moved down here.

I know that the agitation was carried on, because Herbert Lehman, when he became Governor, had to face a good deal of the problem of the medical men. Under his administration there was a new bill put through with regard to medical representation. I remember that it wasn't a very good bill, but at the time it was one of those compromise things and the best you could do.

The problems of administering the workmen's compensation act were also very large at that time. There was our drive against the uninsured employers and the Governor knew about that and of course supported it. We made some additions to the workmen's compensation coverage, primarily in the field of occupational diseases which had not been covered previously, but we had to make very tentative approaches