Steete, J. M., Grandview, Edgar Co. 10 years' practice. Mo. M. C., 1874; Ec. Med. Inst., 1871. Wetern Homeo. M. C., Cleveland, 1866. Taylor, E. B., Chicago, Cook Co. Bennett Ec. M. C., 1877. Teague, E., Rockford, Winnebago Co. 10 years' practice. Thomas, J L., Columbus, Adams Co. 21 years' practice. Tooker, R. N., Chicago, Cook Co. Bellevue, 1865. Trine, J. G, Chicago, Cook Co. 10 years' practice. Truscott, John, Keithsburg, Mercer Co. 10 years' practice. Unland, W. G., Pekin, Tazwell Co. Hahnemann M. C., Chi., 1871. Upp, Alonzo, Champaign, Champaign Co. 10 years' practice. Wilcox, W. A., Marissa, St. Clair Co.. Bennett Ec. M. C., 1873. Williams, T. D., Chicago, Cook Co. Hahnemann M. C, Chi., 1871. Hahnemann M. C., Chi., 1866. Western Homeo. M. C., Cleveland, 1869. Yanany, J. H., Majority Point, Cumberland Co. 24 years' practice. DECEASED. The following deaths have been reported since January 1, 1877: Slock, Josiah, Cuba. Farnan, James, Sparta. Thompson, Daniel D., Chicago. Fish, S. N., Paw Paw, Sept. Voorles, C., Morrisonville. Freer, Joseph W., Chicago, April 12,77 Goll, Gustave G., Chicago, Mar. 29, '77. Wagensiller, S., Pekin. BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO. The following are the more recent ordinances passed by the Common Council, which are of interest to the Profession. annulled by subsequent acts, are still in force. All previous laws and ordinances, not in conflict with or ORDINANCE to amend an Ordinance abolishing the Board of Health and appointing Commissioner of Health, passed July 19, 1876, and amended March 1, 1877. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Chicago: SECTION 1. That the Board of Health, as at present organized, be and the same is hereby abolished, and that all of the powers and duties of said Board shall be vested in and performed by an officer to be called Commissioner of Health, who shall have the management and control of all such matters and things now under the management and control of the said Board of Health. SEC. 2 The said Commissioner of Health shall be appointed by the Mayor of the City, by and with the advice and consent of the City Council, and shall receive a salary not exceeding $3,000 per annum, and he shall give his entire time to the duties of his office, and shall hold his office until his successor is appointed and qualified. SEC. 3. Said Commissioner of Health shall have power to employ an assistant at a salary not exceeding $1,200; a secretary and compiler of statistics, at a salary not exceeding $1,000; a registrar of vital statistics, at a salary not exceeding $1,500 per annum; one health office clerk, at a salary not exceeding $1,000 per annum; three medical sanitary inspectors, at a salary not exceeding $500 per annum each; and two meat inspectors and eighteen sanitary policemen, at a salary not exceeding $60 per month, who shall have full police powers and perform all the duties of sanitary policemen, as are now provided by the laws and ordinances of the city, and such other duties as the said Commissioner of Health may require and determine; said Commissioner of Health shall also have charge of the City Hospital, and have power to employ such assistants and nurses as may be necessary in and about the same. ORDINANCE to amend Chapter 17 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Chicago, entitled "Health Department," passed February 5, 1877. SECTION 1. The Commissioner of Health shall, in case of pestilence or epidemic disease, or in case there is danger of impending pestilence or epidemic disease, or in case the sanitary condition of the city should be of such a character as to warrant it, take and adopt such measures as he may from time to time deem necessary to prevent the spread of any pestilential, epidemic, or infectious disease. He shall have power to cause any house or any premises to be cleansed, disinfected, or closed to visitors, and prevent persons from resorting thereto while any person is laboring under any pestilential or infectious disease; he may by an order in writing direct any nuisance to be abated, or unwholesome matter or substance, dirt or filth, to be removed from any house or premises, and may prescribe the time and mode of doing so, and to take any BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO. 99 other measures he may deem necessary and proper to prevent the spread of any infectious, pestilential, or epidemic disease, and any person who shall neglect or refuse to obey the orders, directions and instructions of said Commissioner of Health shall be fined in any sum not less than $5 nor more than $100. SEC. 2. Said Commissioner of Health shall cause a notice, printed or written in large letters, to be placed upon or near any house in which any person may be affected or sick with small-pox, scarlet fever, or any infectious, pestilential or epidemic disease whatever, the words "small-pox" or "scarlet fever here or whatever name the infectious, pestiential, or epidemic disease may be, and if any person shall deface, alter, mutilate, destroy, or tear down such notice, without the permission of the Commissioner of Health, such person shall be liable for each offense to pay a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $50. The occupant of any house upon which notice shall be placed or posted as aforesaid shall be held responsible for the removal of the same, and if the same shall be removed without permission of the Commissioner of Health, such occupant shall be subject to the like fine of not less than $25 nor more than $50, unless he shall notify the Commissioner of Health within twenty-four hours after removal of the said notice. SEC. 3 All ordinances in conflict with this ordinance shall be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. ORDINANCE Concerning the Registration of Deaths and Births by physicians, midwives, etc., passed June 21, 1877. SECTION 1. That on and after June 1st, 1877, every physician and professional adviser who has attended any person at a last illness, or who has been present at the death of any person, shall make and preserve a registry of each death, stating the person's name, color, sex, nativity, (married or single,) the date, hour and street number, and the cause of such death. SEC. 2. That every physician or professional adviser mentioned in the foregoing section shall return within thirty-six (36) hours after the death of any person to the Registrar of Vital Statistics of the Health Department, a copy of such register of death, by him or her signed. SEC. 3. That on and after June 1st, 1877, every physician, midwife or other person who may professionally assist or advise at any birth, shall make and keep a registry of every such birth, and therein state the time and place, (ward and street number,) also the sex, color and residence of such parent, maiden name of the mother, occupation of the father, and their nationality. SEC. 4. And it shall be the duty of every person mentioned in the foregoing section to return to the Registrar of Vital Statistics of the Health Department, within five (5) days, an exact copy of the registry of every such birth, and by him or her signed. SEC. 5. That on and after June 1st, 1877, no undertaker, company, corpo. ration, or any other person whomsoever, shall remove any dead body from the city for interment or shipment, until the certificate of the attending physician or Coroner shall have been filed with the Registrar of Vital Statistics of the Health Department and a permit issued for such removal or interment. SEC. 6. And it shall be the duty of the Health Department to keep on hand all necessary blanks and books for the registry of such deaths and births, and shall furnish the same to physicians and midwives on application. SEC. 7. Any physician, midwife or other person who shall neglect or fail to comply with any of the foregoing sections shall be fined in a sum not less than $25 nor more than $100 for each offense. ORDINANCE regulating the Slaughtering, Packing, Rendering, and Fertilizing business, passed August 27, 1877. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, company or corporation within the City of Chicago, or within one mile of the limits thereof, to engage in the business of slaughtering animals for food, packing them for market, or rendering the offal, fat, bones, or scraps from such animals, or any dead carcass, or any animal matter whatever, or to engage in the manufacture or production of fertilizers or glue, or the cleaning or rendering of intestines, unless he or they shall have obtained a license for such business. The Mayor is hereby authorized to issue a license for such purpose to any person or persons applying to him in writing for the same. Such application shall specify the place and location, and the character of the business for which license is desired, and the applicant shall pay into the city treasury, as a license fee, the sum of one hundred (100) dollars per annum. SEC. 2. Any license so granted may be revoked upon written notice by the Mayor, whenever it shall appear to his satisfaction that the party so licensed shall have violated any provision of any ordinance of the Common Council, or any statute law of the State of Illinois, relating to said business of slaughtering, packing, rendering, and manufacture of fertilizers or glue. SEC. 3. The Commissioner of Health, or any or all of his sanitary officers, shall be permitted free entrance at all hours of the day or night, to all buildings used for the purpose specified in section 1 of this ordinance, and to free and unrestrained examination of all apparatus or utensils used in such manufacture, or in the disposition of gases generated in such manufacture. SEC. 4 Any person who shall violate any provision of any section of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five (25) dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars, and one hundred (100) dollars a day for each and every day he shall continue to carry on said business without a license; and upon a second, or any subsequent conviction, for the like offense, he shall in addition to the same fine imposed for the first offense be imprisoned in the house of correction, for a period of not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days, and the Mayor shall revoke his or their license immediately on being notified of such conviction. CODE OF ETHICS. Of the Duties of Physicians to their Patients, and of the Obligations of Patients to their Physicians. ART. I.-DUTIES OF PHYSICIANS TO THEIR PATIENTS. SECTION 1. A physician should not only be ever ready to obey the calls of the sick, but his mind ought also to be imbued with the greatness of his mission, and the responsibility he habitually incurs in its discharge. Those obligations are the more deep and enduring, because there is no tribunal, other than his own conscience, to adjudge penalties for carelessness or neglect. Physicians should, therefore, minister to the sick with due impressions of the importance of their office; reflecting that the ease, the health, and the lives, of those committed to their charge, depend on their skill, attention, and fidelity. They should study, also, in their deportment, so to unite tenderness with firmness, and condescension with authority, as to inspire the minds of their patients with gratitude, respect, and confidence. SEC. 2. Every case committed to the charge of a physician should be treated with attention, steadiness, and humanity. Reasonable indulgence should be granted to the mental imbecility and caprices of the sick. Secrecy and delicacy, when required by peculiar circumstances, should be strictly observed; and the familiar and confidential intercourse to which physicians are admitted in their professional visits, should be used with discretion, and with the most scrupulous regard to fidelity and honor. The obligation of secrecy extends beyond the period of professional services; none of the privacies of personal and domestic life, no infirmity of disposition, or flaw of character, observed during professional attendance, should ever be divulged by the physician, except when he is imperatively required to do so. The force and necessity of this obligation are indeed so great, that professional men have, under certain circumstances, been protected in their observance of secrecy by courts of justice. SEC. 3. Frequent visits to the sick are, in general, requisite, since they enable the physician to arrive at a more perfect knowledge of the disease-to meet promptly every change which may occur, and also tend to preserve the confidence of the patient. But unnecessary visits are to be avoided, as they give useless anxiety to the patient, tend to diminish the authority of the physi cian, and render him liable to be suspected of interested motives. SEC. 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of the disease. But he should not fail, on proper occasions, to give to the friends of the patient timely notice of danger, when it really occurs; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office, however, is so peculiarly alarming when executed by him, that it ought to be declined, whenever it can be assigned to any other person of sufficient judgment and delicacy. For, the physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick; that by such cordials to the drooping spirit, he may smooth the bed of death, revive expiring life, and counteract the depressing influence of those maladies which often disturb the tranquility of the most resigned in their last moments. The life of a sick person can be shortened, not only by the acts, but also by the words or the manner of a physician. It is, therefore, a sacred duty to guard himself carefully in this respect, and to avoid all things which have a tendency to discourage the patient and depress his spirits. SEC. 5. A physician ought not to abandon a patient because the case is deemed incurable; for his attendance may continue to be highly useful to the patient, and comforting to the relatives around him, even in the last period of a fatal malady, by alleviating pain and other symptoms, and by soothing mental anguish. To decline attendance, under such circumstances, would be sacrificing to fanciful delicacy and mistaken liberality, that moral duty, which is independent of, and far superior to, all pecuniary consideration. SEC. 6. Consultations should be promoted in difficult or protracted cases, as they give rise to confidence, energy, and more enlarged views in practice. SEC. 7. The opportunity which a physician not unfrequently enjoys, of promoting and strengthening the good resolutions of his patients, suffering under the consequences of vicious conduct, ought never to be neglected. His counsels, or remonstrances, will give satisfaction, not offence, if they be proffered with politeness, and evince a genuine love of virtue, accompanied by a sincere interest in the welfare of the person to whom they are addressed. ART. II.-OBLIGATIONS OF Patients to thEIR PHYSICIANS. SECTION 1. The members of the medical profession, upon whom is enjoined the performance of so many important and arduous duties towards the community, and who are required to make so many sacrifices of comfort, ease, and health, for the welfare of those who avail themselves of their services, certainly have a right to expect and require, that their patients should entertain a just sense of the duties which they owe to their medical attendants. SEC. 2. The first duty of a patient, is to select, as his medical adviser, one who has received a regular professional education. In no trade or occupation, do mankind rely on the skill of an untaught artist; and in medicine, confessed. ly the most difficult and intricate of the sciences, the world ought not to suppose that knowledge is intuitive. SEC. 3. Patients should prefer a physician whose habits of life are regular, and who is not devoted to company, pleasure, or to any pursuit incompatible |