HC Deb 12 November 1954 vol 532 c162W
Mr. Russell

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of prosecutions against persons posing as medical men in the last three years; and how many of these were successful.

Major Lloyd-George

The number of recorded prosecutions and convictions in England and Wales under Section 40 of the Medical Practitioners Act, 1858, for falsely pretending to be a doctor of medicine were in 1951, 1952 and 1953 as follows:

Prosecuted Found guilty
1951 2 1
1952 4 3
1953 3 1