PROVIDING FOR THE ADMISSION OF PAY PATIENTS TO THE HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM JULY 14, 1949.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. ABERNETHY, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following REPORT To accompany H. R. 4892) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 4892) to provide for the admission of pay patients to the Home for the Aged and Infirm, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. The purpose of this legislation is set forth in the title of the bill. The transmitting letter of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia is made a part of this report. Hon SAM RAYBURN, GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, EXECUTIVE OFFICES, Washington 4, D. C., May 17, 1948, Speaker. United States House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. Rayburn. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the honor to submit to you herewith a draft of a proposed bill to provide for the admission of pay patients to the Home for the Aged and Infirm. For a number of years the District of Columbia has exacted payments from inmates of the Home for the Aged and Infirm and their relatives where it has appeared they were financially able to contribute. The Commissioners are advised, however, that there is considerable doubt as to the authority of the District to exact this contribution. The purpose of the proposed bill is to provide for the admission of pay patients to the home and clarify the District's rights with respect thereto. Similar legislation has been enacted with reference to the admission of pay patients to Gallinger Municipal Hospital. The Commissioners urge enactment of this bill. The proposed draft of the bill was submitted to the Bureau of the Budget and returned to the Commissioners with the advice that there is no objection on the Dart of that office to the presentation of the bill to Congress Respectfully. JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG, President, Board of Commissioners, District of Columbia. O TO PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A LICENSE PRACTICE CHIROPRACTIC IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO ABRAHAM J. EHRLICH JULY 14, 1949.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed Mr. ABERNETHY, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 4789] The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 4789) to provide for the issuance of a license to practice chiropractic in the District of Columbia to Abraham J. Ehrlich, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. The purpose of this bill is stated in the title. The report of the District of Columbia Commissioners is made a part of this report. GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, The Honorable JOHN L. MCMILLAN, Chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. MCMILLAN: The Commissioners have for report H. R. 4789, Eighty-first Congress, a bill "to provide for the issuance of a license to practice chiropractic in the District of Columbia to Abraham J. Ehrlich." Section 24 of the act of Congress regulating the practice of the healing art in the District of Columbia, approved February 27, 1929, provides in part as follows: "Any person who was engaged in the practice of chiropractic in the District of Columbia on or before January 1, 1928, may deliver to the Commission, within ninety days after February 27, 1929, a written application for license to practice chiropractic in the District of Columbia, together with satisfactory proof that the applicant is not less than 21 years of age and of good moral character, and had previously obtained a diploma from some legally chartered or incorporated and duly established school or college of chiropractic and was actually engaged in the practice of chiropractic in said District on January 1, 1928." The purpose of the bill is to waive any time limitation with respect to the filing of application for license and to direct the issuance of a license to practice chiro practic in the District of Columbia to Abraham J. Ehrlich if the Commission on Licensure to Practice the Healing Art finds (1) that he was actually engaged in the practice of chiropractic in the District of Columbia on October 1, 1927; and (2) that he is otherwise qualified to practice under the provision of the act. Information made available to the Commissioners indicates that Dr. Ehrlich obtai⚫ed a diploma from a legally chartered and duly established school of chiropractic prior to enactment of the act of February 27, 1929, and that since he happened not to be in Washington on January 1, 1928, he was not actually engaged in the practice of chiropractic in the District of Columbia on that date. but he was so engaged during prior periods. The Commission on Licensure to Practice the Healing Art has no objection to the passage of the bill. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia likewise have no objection. Time does not permit the ascertainment of the views of the Bureau of the Budget with respect to this report. A copy of the report is therefore being sent to the Bureau for its information. Respectfully, JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG, President, Board of Commissioners. |