Hodgins Commission recommends shut down

In 1915, the Ontario government issued a report, the Hodgins Commission, an investigation into the state of medical education in Ontario. This report noted “new avenues of healing which had not previously been dreamed of,” including “bone setting”, “manipulation” and “mechanotherapy”. This commission reacted as expected and recommended that Ontario’s three chiropractic colleges be shut down. The commission did recognize the value in these methods and recommended they be added to the medical curriculum.