RT Journal
T1 UNiform medical legislation.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD September 23
VO XXXIII
IS 13
SP 799
OP 799
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450650049008
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450650049008
AB Last June the Wayne County Medical Society—Detroit, Mich.—appointed a committee for the purpose of initiating a movement looking to the creation of a national board of health or, in some way, to secure uniform legislation in every state. The committee made its report on September 14, and in its report says that it sent circulars to fifty-one states and territories, in which replies were asked to seven questions—the most important of these being as follows:"Would you be inclined to favorably consider the plan of entering into a state of reciprocity with other states which have practically the same requirements for the license of practicing medicine as your state has?""Would you join in the efforts in working out a memorandum to be presented to the legislative bodies of the different states with the view of introducing a bill as to the subject-matter, and would your secretary co-operate with us?"