It costs a Canadian seven cents a day for full hospital coverage, fc unlimited as to length of stay sn<f f including doctor bills, under the } government - sponsored hospital service.
''For $4.20 a month the head of ] a family gets coverage for him- self and all dependents under 19," Mannie Starkman, a Toronto pharmacist, said here.
He was addressing the Ameri- . can College of , Apothecaries in the third and last day of their convention at the Roosevelt hotel. Edward Keating, Chicago, was elected president. He succeeds Gerald Nutter of Bartlesville, Okla.
Other hew officers are Henry j Gregg, Minneapolis, president-elect, and Wilkins Hardem, Columbia, S.'Cm vice-president....
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He added that a problem in treating infections is that some don't respond to older antibiotics.
the ACA adopted a resolution to support a bill before Congress :or the establishment of a National Poison Prevention Week.
The college, which has been responsible for over 250 poison treatment centers in hospitals throughout the US, recently introduced the bill into Congress.
Other speakers included Dr. Josephine Siragusa, Loyola university college of pharmacy; T. E. E. Greenfield, Ontario, Canada; Frank Kernohan, Toronto, | Canada; Redfield Bryan, president of the Louisiana board of pharmacy, and Dr. John H. Sea* bury, Louisiana State university school of medicine. j Leo Aikman, columnist for the Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., addressed the closing banquet.
