Jacksonville’s Divine Healer Ordinance
LAST month the city of Jacksonville, Fla., passed “an ordinance fixing the license tax for persons doing business as curers, or healers, of the sick or lame or crippled by other than generally recognized and proved means, recognized and licensed by law.” The ordinance requires all such persons, not regularly registered in accordance with the city ordinances, to pay a license of twenty-five hundred dollars; and the penalty for disregarding the ordinance is five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding ninety days. The city passed this ordinance because a certain so-called “divine healer” was practicing there.