Commonwealth v. Evans
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 289, Oct. T., 1914, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Lancaster Co., Sept. T., 1914, No. 187, on appeal from summary conviction in case of Commonwealth v. E. E. Evans. Appeal from summary conviction.
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Appeal, No. 289, Oct. T., 1914, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Lancaster Co., Sept. T., 1914, No. 187, on appeal from summary conviction in case of Commonwealth v. E. E. Evans. Appeal from summary conviction. Before Landis, P. J. The defendant presented the following reasons for appeal: 1. The conviction was‘unjust in this; your petitioner diagnosed the case to the best of his ability and saw no symptoms of diphtheria and, therefore, up to the time he ceased attending the child, there was nothing to justify him in furnishing a notice stating that Alberta Kauffman was suffering from…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Trexler, J.,
The defendant is a practicing physician and as such was charged with failing to make report of a case of *611diphtheria which he treated. Section 1 of the Act of May 14, 1909, P. L. 855, makes it the duty of every physician practicing in this commonwealth who shall treat or examine any person for or afflicted with diphtheria to forthwith make a report in writing to the health authorities of the township, city or borough, giving in the report certain facts in regard to the case. The defendant was convicted before the alderman and having obtained the proper allocatur appealed…
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