The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-23
DRUGGIST EFFICIENCY.
And Reciprocity of Certificates Being
Furthered.

The article in The Times Tuesday
night regarding the election of d. f.
Davis to the presidency of the N. f.
association of state pharmacy boards
is rather misleading. 1t is not TO be
wondered that it is so, as the general
public does not know as much about
matters in pharmacy as il really should
know.
Mr.. Davis was elected president Of the
New England association of state phar-
macy boards, as was stated. This in
cludes all the state boards Of pharmacy
in New England. Each state pharmacy
board is a commission chosen by the
governor of each state TO regulate and
control the practice OF pharmacy in that
state as TO their ability and general
worth and ii found worthy certificate
Of registration is issued to them by the
examining board.
Up TO the year 1907 these certificates
were good only in the state from which
they were issued. There had been some
talk of an exchange Of certificates be-
tween states, but as the laws regarding
conditions varied so very much in the
different states this was found to be
impracticable and legally impossible. In
June 1907 there was an amalgamated
meeting Of all the New England state
pharmaceutical associations held az Mag
nolia, Mass. Every New England state
pharmaceutical association was repre-
scented and every New England state
board Of pharmacy.
meeting Of the pharmacy boards
was held and the outline drawn for some
kind OF an organization for uniformity
of pharmacy laws and interchange OF
certificates of fitness, between states.
The first meeting was held in the State
House at Boston November that year,
and the n. Z. Assn. of State Boards Of
Pharmacy was formed, with Maine, Mas
sachusetts and Vermont as the chatter
members. The first exchange of eertif
Gates was between Maine and Massa-
chusetts and the second was between
Massachusetts and Vermont
Each state separately took up the
matter with its lawmakers, getting the
statutes changed so that they could le-
gally do so, and two years ago New
Hampshire, one year ago Connecticut
and this year Rhode Island joined the
association. Meanwhile the national as
ISOLATION of pharmacy boards had been
formed and had its first meeting in In
dianapolis in 1907. But little was done
there, but at the next meeting in 1908
in New York City several states joined
the association. The 1900 meeting was
held in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and two
meetings We're held in 1910 one in Los
Angeles, Cal, and later one in Rich
mond, Va.
The meeting for 1911 was held in Bos-
ton in August, At this meeting 80
states were represented and became
members of the national association
Since then two other states have joined,
so at this time Al states are in posi-
ton to exchange pharmacists certificates
in reciprocity with other states, under
rules and regulations peculiar to the
laws of each separate state
There are several group associa-
tons, which have followed the lead of
the New England states: "The South
ern association "the Central assoeia-
ton and the. "Western association"
They are all under the supervision Of
the national association, and the aim is
for reciprocity Of certificates OF fitness
that viii be recognized anywhere in
America and to raise the standard of fit
ness in certain localities where there
has been none at all or too low for
the good of the public.
The Times article stated that Mr.. Dav-
is was virtually the head of the asso-
citation" This is not so. The president
Of the national association is r. II.
Walker of Texas Mr.. Davis is presi-
dent Of the N. Il. Assn, vice president 4
OF the national association and secre-
tary of the Vermont state board. The
president Of the Vermont board is w. L.
Gokay of Bennington, who was recent
ly appointed by Gov. Mead to second
term Of Ave years, beginning Dec. |,
1911.