RT Journal
T1 MEdical legislation.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD August 5
VO XXXIII
IS 6
SP 361
OP 361
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450580055018
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450580055018
AB No less than 241 bills relating directly or indirectly to the medical profession and to questions of public health are enumerated in full as to their titles, in the Post-Graduate, as having been presented to the New York Legislature during its last session. Of these, forty-one became laws. Probably a proportional number were introduced in the other state legislatures and many— some good, others bad—have passed. In some cases executive vetoes have saved the people from bad laws, and we regret to have to believe that in a few others they have not been interposed in behalf of the public welfare, or have been exercised to its detriment. In these days of general public interest in medical and sanitary matters, and of dissemination of the little knowledge that is a dangerous thing, it is of the highest importance that the medical profession should keep watch on the measures thus introduced.