Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York June 30, 1955 (In re the Investigation into Alleged Commission of Criminal Abortions)

Beldock, J.

The question for determination on this appeal is whether, with respect to abortions, section 90 of the Sanitary Code of The City of New York has effected a repeal or suspension, within the city, of the State statute which prohibits a doctor from disclosing “ any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to