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March 25 j ommittee Rejects Nurse's Special Bill ' snn n znclcclccmmme Nurse Rene Caisse's special bill, which sought permission for her to practice medicine, was lost before the Private Bills Committee of the Ontario Legislature yesterday. Opponents of the bill contended that its endorsation was tantamount to endorsation of the Bracebridge nurse's claims of having a cancer cure or effective treatment, and that such endorsation could not be given without investigation. Pro-- vision for such investigation, it was mauintained, had already been made in the proposed committee which will be appointed to investigate all claims of cancer cures or treat-- ments. When it was suggested that Nurse Czisse "carry on as she is doing now" until after the committee's investigation, charges were made by Nurse Caisse; her counsel, Donald Carrick, and relatives of patients that doctors in the district were refusing to diagnose cases for her to treat, that "a cabal" hcd been orpganized against her. _ Charges Called Nonsense. This brought heated cries of "nonsense," "absolutely untrue," and so forth from members of the com-- mittee, who also are members of the medical profession, and also denial of any knowledge of such a tkingy from Daniel Lang, K.C., rep-- resenting the College of Physicians * _ and Surgeons and the Ontario Medi-- cal Association. "That is most unfair," declared Hon. H. J. Kirby, Minister of --Health. "There has been no inter-- * | ference from the department what-- | ever, or any ons else concerned, to _ | prevent her from carrying on as | she is doing now." "My mother is a cancer patient, ¢ vet three doctors refused to give her a written diagnosis, though they gave it verbally," said a woman from a'back seat in the audience. \ "We finally had to get it by a false-- ' hood." _ _ After refusing the bill, the com-- mittee endorsed a motion, made by f <J. Frank Kelly, member for Mus-- ' koka--Ontario, and the bill's sponsor, that the customary fees for its pres-- entation to the committee be waived. | Spectators Admonished. ' Approximately fifty patients or : relatives of patients of Nurse Caisse | attended the hearing, and so vigor-- ously applauded members of the committee who spoke on behalf of : the bill that at one stage Hon. David Croll, Chairman of the committee, admonished them: "You people will have to stop applauding if you are to remain." * "I am not claiming that Miss Caisse has a cancer cure," said Mr. Kelly in presenting the bill. "I do want to give you this fact that I know people who were sick and now are well. 'Their cases were diag-- | nosed by doctors as cancer, and I | know that up to a time at least Miss Caisse would not take any case unless it was diagnosed as cancer. "I know that doctors will say these people did not have cancer. Well, I say it is a crime for doctors to tell you that you have cancer if vyou haven't. I know that I would pass out if a doctor told me that. I | know scores and scores of people | _ ' who have been helped by this treat-- i ment."