Utah Naturopathic Physicians Survey, 1957

 UTAH 1957/8 STUDY:  CHRONOLOGY OF NATUROPATHIC STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATING IN PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS FROM 1910-1957.

Introduction

The following page depicts a population-chronology analysis of the doctors practicing and/or researched as part of the Utah study.

The listing of students who were noted in the earlier part of this review of the Utah study are those reviewed for this chronological analysis of the sects.  

Years of practice are noted on left side.  The 1910-1911 academic year was the earliest year in which a practitioner attended a medical school, be it either in chiropractic, drugless, neuropathic, or natripathic medicine. 

Symbols in use

*  Years of attendance, with one dot representing one  student attending a medical school for that year. 

x  Graduation year for one student. 

?  A year in which there may have been an attending student, which the notes taken by the Utah researchers are inconclusive of.

S  A year in which a doctor’s medical license was  suspended.

Preliminary Conclusions drawn from the attached table:

Increased attendance just before the dawn of World War II is noted.   Peaks following the War may be related to the Veteran’s Bill which served to financially support and place these students in an alternative medical college.

RESULTS TABLE

  YEAR            NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN CLASS

  • 1894-1909         beginnings of Chiropractic/Naturopathy
  • 1910-1911         *
  • 1911-1912         *
  • 1912-1913         ?
  • 1913-1914
  • 1914-1915         *?                                                               begin WW I
  • 1915-1916         **
  • 1916-1917         ***?
  • 1917-1918         *                                                                 post-WW I
  • 1918-1919         ***
  • 1919-1920         *****                                                        yr of Vet’s Bill?
  • 1920-1921         ******
  • 1921-1922         *********                                               1921 begin peak
  • 1922-1923         *******
  • 1923-1924         ********
  • 1924-1925         ********                                                 1925 end peak
  • 1925-1926         ******
  • 1926-1927         ***?
  • 1927-1928         ***
  • 1928-1929         ??                                                               1927/8 low
  • 1929-1930         ****
  • 1930-1931         xxx*********
  • 1931-1932         xxx*********??
  • 1932-1933         *************
  • 1933-1934         ***************?SS
  • 1934-1935         xxx*************
  • 1935-1936         **************?SS
  • 1936-1937         xxx*****************
  • 1937-1938         ******************?
  • 1938-1939         xxxxxxxxxx***************       pre-war peak?
  • 1939-1940         **************?
  • 1940-1941         xxx*****************?                   Enrolled to avoid-war?
  • 1941-1942         xxxx***********?
  • 1942-1943         xxx********?
  • 1943-1944         xxxx*******?S                                     wartime low
  • 1944-1945         x***********
  • 1945-1946         xx*********??S
  • 1946-1947         xxxx**********????SS                       post-war peak
  • 1947-1948         xxx***********?S
  • 1948-1949         xxxxxx*****************              ending of peak
  • 1949-1950         ***********S                   
  • 1950-1951         xxxxxx***********
  • 1951-1952         xxxxx******                                          Korean War
  • 1952-1953         xxxxxxx*****S                                   [MASH units]
  • 1953-1954         xxx****?S                                              no post-war peak
  • 1954-1955         xxx*****                     
  • 1955-1956         xxx**?                       
  • 1956-1957         *SSSSSSSSSS          
  • 1957-1958         xxSSSS                              

 

In 1955/6, see drastic decrease due to:

         1) Old Veterans school

         2) penicillin era

         3) technology (X-rays/MASH)

  ##4) license suspensions