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Charge ( ity Midwife PermitsWithout Authoritythe city health department is is-suing permits to midwives without j authority, it as charged h countyM officials Saturday. The state boardi | of examiners at Austin only has theright to issue such permits, it was said.Charges of illegally practicing | medicine have been filed against women with permits from the city health department, but juries haveinvariably returned verdicts of not guilty in such cases, it was pointed out.The latest case in that connection ' is that of Maria Pargas. 425 South Oregon street, a midwife. Dr. P. R.Outlaw, city health officer, filed thecomplaint against her, charging her with illegally practicing medicine. T)r. Outlaw claimed that the woman was exceeding her permit by administering medicine.Mrs. Pargas’s trial was set for Frl- jdav afternon in the countv court*at law\ but was passed when several witnesses failed to appear.An agreement was then reached j between Hr. Outlaw and Frank Lyons, Mrs. Pargas's attorney, that the charges should he dropped, provided she leaves town. The county attorney agreed to the arrangement, hut stipulated that the charges would not be dismissed until it is definitely established that the woman has left the city.it
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El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas, US
Sat, Sep 29, 1928
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