Galesburg-Thursday, December 6th, beginning at 10 A. M., at the Union Hotel.

Champaign-Thursday, December 20th, beginning at 10 A. M., in the parlors of the Industrial University.

Springfield-Thursday, January 10, 1878, at 10 a. M., at the State House (the regular annual meeting).

The committee recommend that notice of these meetings be early circulated among the profession through the public press, medical journals, and such other notices as may be deemed advisable. [Signed,]

H. WARDNER,

A. L. CLARK,

R. LUDLAM.

NOTE.—Charleston, Coles county, was subsequently added to the list. A committee was appointed to prepare a circular for distribution, including laws, setting forth work of the Board, with instructions as to examinations, certificates, and inviting cooperation of medical men throughout the State. The forms of certificates were agreed upon, also the seal. A committee. with power to act, was appointed to prepare all the blanks for registration.

In the afternoon the Board, accompanied by a number of the officials, and other representative men of the city, made an inspection of the Chicago river and the crib.

In the evening another meeting was held, at which Dr. E. W. Gray, of Bloomington, was elected Secretary, and Dr. Wardner, elected Treasurer. An auditing committee, and one to draft rules for the government of the Board, were appointed.

On Tuesday, the Board went to the Union Stock Yards, and while there inspected some of the slaughtering and fertilizing establishments.

On Tuesday afternoon, July 24th, another meeting was held, when, on motion of Dr. Chambers, it was agreed to address a circular to all the cities and towns in the State, for the purpose of ascertaining what local health organizations, and what health ordinances are in force in the respective localities. After considering various other subjects, the Board adjourned subject to the call of the President

The following is a full copy of the act to Regulate the Practice of Medicine in the State of Illinois. Approved May 29, 1877. In force July 1, 1877.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That every person practicing medicine, in any of its departments, shall possess the qualifications required by this act. If a graduate in medicine, he shall present his diploma to the State Board of Health, if such Board of Health shall be established by law, or Board of Examiners herein named, for verification as to its genuineness. If the diploma is found genuine, and if the person named therein be the person claiming and presenting the same, the State Board of Health, if such Board of Health shall be established by law, or the Board of Examiners, shall issue its certificate to that effect, signed by all the members thereof, and such diploma and certificate shall be conclusive as to the right of the lawful holder of the same to practice medicine in this State. If not a graduate, the person practicing medicine in this State shall present himself before said Board, and submit himself to such examination as the said Board shall require; and, if the examination be satisfactory to the examiners, the said Board shall issue its certificate in accordance with the facts, and the lawful holder of such certificate shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges herein mentioned.

SEC. 2. In case a State Board of Health shall not be established by law, then each State Medical Society incorporated and in active existence on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, whose members are required to possess diplomas or license from some legally chartered medical institution in good standing, shall appoint, annually, a Board of Examiners consisting of seven members, who shall hold their office for one year, and until their successors shall be chosen. The examiners so appointed shall go before a County Judge and make oath that they are regular graduates, or licentiates, and that they will faithfully perform the duties of their office. Vacancies occurring in a Board of Examiners shall be filled by the society appointing it by the selection of alternates, or otherwise.

SEC. 3. The State Board of Health, if such Board of Health shall be established by law, or Board of Examiners shall organize within three months after the passage of this act, they shall procure a seal, and shall receive through their Secretary applications for certificates and examinations, the president of each Board shall have authority to administer oaths, and the Board take testimony in all matters relating to their duties, they shall issue certificates to all who furnish satisfactory proof of having received diplomas, or licenses from legally chartered medical institutions in good standing, they shall prepare two forms of certificates, one for persons in possession of diplomas or licenses, the other for candidates examined by the Board, they shall furnish to the county clerks of the several counties a list of all persons receiving certificates. In selecting places to hold their meetings they shall, as far as is reasonable, ac

commodate applicants residing in different sections of the State, and due notice shall be published of all their meetings. Certificates shall be signed by all the members of the Board granting them, and shall indicate the medical society to which the Examining Board is attached.

SEC. 4. Said State Board of Health, if such Board of Health shall be established by law, or Board of Examiners shall examine diplomas as to their genuineness, and if the diploma shall be found genuine as represented, the Secretary of the State Board of Health, if such Board of Health shall be established by law, or Board of Examiners shall receive a fee of one dollar from each graduate or licentiate, and no further charge shall be made to the applicants; but if it be found to be fraudulent, or not lawfully owned by the possessor, the Board shall be entitled to charge and collect twenty dollars of the applicant presenting such diploma. The verification of the diploma shall consist in the affidavit of the holder and applicant that he is the lawful possessor of the same, and that he is the person therein named. Such affidavit may be taken before any person authorized to administer oaths, and the same shall be attested under the hand and official seal of such officer, if he have a seal. Graduates may present their diplomas and affidavits as provided in this act, by letter or by proxy, and the State Board of Health, if such Board of Health shall be established by law, or Board of Examiners shall issue its certificate the same as though the owner of the diploma was present.

SEC. 5. All examinations of persons not graduates or licentiates, shall be made directly by the Board, and the certificates given by the Boards shall authorize the possessor to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Illinois.

SEC. 6. Every person holding a cerificate from the State Board of Health, if such Board of Health shall be established by law, or Board of Examiners shall have it recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in which he resides, and the record shall be indorsed thereon. Any per. son removing to another county to practice shall procure an indorsement to that effect on the certificate from the county clerk, and shall record the certificate, in like manner, in the county to which he removes, and the holder of the certificate shall pay to the county clerk the usual fees for making the record.

SEC. 7. The county clerk shall keep, in a book provided for the purpose, a complete list of the certificates recorded by him, with the date of the issue and name of the medical society represented by the State Board of Health, if such Board of Health shall be established by law, or Board of Examiners issuing them. If the certificate be based on a diploma or license, he shall record the name of the medical institution conferring it, and the date when conferred. The register of the county clerk shall be open to public inspection during business hours.

SEC. 8. Candidates for examination shall pay a fee of five dollars, in advance, which shall be returned to them if a certificate be refused. The fees received by the Board shall be paid into the treasury of the medical society by which the Board shall have been appointed, and the expenses

and compensation of the Board shall be subject to arrangement with the society.

SEC. 9. Examinations may be in whole, or in part in writing, and shall be of an elementary and practical character, but sufficiently strict to test the qualifications of the candidate as a practitioner.

SEC. 10. The State Board of Health, if such Board of Health be established by law, or Board of Examiners may refuse certificates to individuals guilty of unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, and they may revoke certificates for like causes. In all cases of refusal or revocation the applicant may appeal to the body appointing the board.

SEC. 11. Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine within the meaning of this act, who shall profess publicly to be a physician and to prescribe for the sick, or who shall append to his name the letters of "M. D." But nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit students from prescribing under the supervision of preceptors, or to prohibit gratuitous services in cases of emergency. And this act shall not apply to commissioned surgeons of the United States army and navy. SEC. 12. Any itinerant vender of any drug, nostrum, ointment, or appliance of any kind, intended for the treatment of disease or injury, or who shall, by writing or printing, or any other method, publicly profess to cure or treat diseases, injury, or deformity by any drug, nostrum, manipulation or other expedient, shall pay a license of one hundred dollars a month, to be collected in the usual way.

SEC. 13. Any person practicing medicine or surgery in this State with. out complying with the provisions of this act, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days nor more than three hundred and sixty-five days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each and every offense; and any person filing or attempting to file, as his own, the diploma or certificate of another, or a forged affidavit of identification, shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction shall be subject to such fine and imprisonment as are made and provided by the statutes of this State for the crime of forgery, but the penalties shall not be enforced till on and after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven; Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to those that have been practicing medicine ten years within this State.

The act to establish a State Board of Health, reads as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint seven persons who shall constitute the Board of Health. The persons so appointed shall hold their offices for seven years; Provided, That the terms of office of the seven first appointed shall be so arranged that the term of one shall expire on the thirtieth day of December of each year, and the vacancies so created, as well as all vacancies oc

curring otherwise, shall be filled by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate; And Provided, also, That appointments made when the Senate is not in session, may be confirmed at its next ensuing session. SEC. 2. The State Board of Health shall have the general supervision of the interests of the health and life of the citizen of the State. They shall have charge of all matters pertaining to quarantine; and shall have authority to make such rules and regulations, and such sanitary investigations as they may from time to time deem necessary for the preservation or improvement of public health, and it shall be the duty of all police officers, sheriffs, constables, and all other officers and employes of the State, to enforce such rules and regulations, so far as the efficiency and success of the Board may depend upon their official co-operation.

SEC. 3. The Board of Health shall have supervision of the State system of registration of births and deaths as hereinafter provided; they shall make up such forms, and recommend such legislation as shall be deemed necessary for the thorough registration of vital and mortuary statistics throughout the State. The Secretary of the Board shall be the Superintendent of such registration. The clerical duties, and the safe-keeping of the bureau of vital statistics thus created shall be provided by the Secretary of State.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of all physicians and accoucheurs in this State, to register their names and post-office address with the County Clerk of the county where they reside; and said physicians and accoucheurs shall be required, under penalty of ten dollars, to be recovered in any Court of competent jurisdiction in the State, at suit of the County Clerk, to report to the County Clerk, within thirty days from date of their occurrence, all births and deaths which may come under their supervision, with a certificate of the cause of death, and such correlative facts as the Board may require, in the blank forms furnished as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 5. Where any birth or death sball take place, no physician or accoucheur being in attendance, the same shall be reported to the County Clerk within thirty days from date of their occurrence, with the supposed cause of death, by the parent, or if none, by the nearest of kin not a minor, or if none, by the resident householder where the death shall occur, under penalty as provided in the preceding section of this act.

SEC. 6. The Coroners of the several counties shall be required to report to the County Clerk, all cases of death which may come under their supervison, with the cause and mode of death, etc., as per forms furnished, under penalty as provided in section four (4) of this act..

SEC. 7. All amounts recovered under the penalties herein provided, shall be appropriated to a special fund for the carrying out the object of this law.

SEC. 8. The County Clerks of the several counties in the State shall be required to keep separate books for the registration of the names and postoffice address of physicians and accoucheurs, for births, for marriages, and for deaths; said books shall always be open to inspection without fee; and said County Clerks shall be required to render a full and complete