chiefly from voluntary contributions from the public. Number of inmates, 1876, 61. The internal management is in the hands of a Board of Lady Managers, consisting of 32 members, chosen from Protestant denominations of the city.

OFFICERS.-Board of Trustees: A. E. Bishop, President; D. A. Jones, Vice-President; W. H. Ryder, D. D., Secretary; B. W. Ray. mond, Treasurer. Board of Managers: Mrs. A. Gibbs, President; Mrs. G. C. Morton, Vice-President; Mrs. D. A. Jones, Treasurer; Mrs. B. P. Moulton, Secretary; Mrs. R. H. Bingham, Asst. Secretary. Committee on Supplies: Mrs. B. W. Raymond, Chairman. Committee on Admissions: Mrs. H. E. Brown, Chairman. Physician, F. A. Emmons. Matron, Miss I. Harvey. Assistant, Miss M. Gamble. Solicitor, Mrs. L. D. Parkes.

ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.-Object: Relief of needy Scotchmen, their widows and orphans. Meets second Thursday in each quarter. OFFICERS.-President, G. McDonald. Vice-Presidents, D. R. Cameron, A. Wallace. Treasurer, W. M. Dale. Secretary, J. Stewart. Assistant Secretary, J. P. Stewart. Physician, R. D. MacArthur. Board of Managers, G. Anderson, J. Carlyle, H. Ritchie, T. Hastie.

ST. GEORGE'S BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.-Organized 1860. Meets first Monday of each month, at 167 Washington street. Object: To administer to the wants of afflicted members, visit the sick, bury the dead, aid and assist widows and orphans, and grant relief to worthy English families needing assistance.

OFFICERS.-President, G. E. Gooch.

Vice-Presidents, E. Sanders, C. J. Burroughs. Treasurer, A. Booth. Financial Secretary, T. But. ton. Assistant Financial Secretary, H. Hall. Recording Secretary, J. Wright. Assistant Recording Secretary, C. Rawlings. Physician, C. W. Purdy.

ST. JOSEPH'S ORPHAN ASYLUM.-Foot of Thirty-fifth street. Organized August 1st, 1849. Devoted to the training, education, and general welfare of orphans, without regard to sect or condition. Ca. pacity, two hundred beds. Support derived mainly from the various Catholic churches. It is governed by a Board of Trustees, and is under the charge of Sisters of Mercy. Boys are received only between the ages of two and seven; girls, two and twelve.

ST. MARY'S ORPHAN ASYLUM.-707 Archer avenue. Rt. Rev. Thos. Foley, D. D., Chief. Brother Albian, Director.

UHLICH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN ORPHAN ASYLUM.Corner Center and Burling streets. Organized 1867. Chartered 1869. For the support and education of orphans. Supported by an income from a bequest by the late C. G. Uhlich.

OFFICERS.-Board of Trustees: President, J. Muhlke; Treasurer, F. Letz; Secretary, J. Bauer. Matron, Mrs Rathsfeld. Physician, F. L. Breidenstein.

UNITED HEBREW RELIEF ASSOCIATION.-Organized 1859.

OFFICERS FOR 1877-8.-President, I. Greensfelder. Vice-President, M. M. Gerstley. Treasurer, G. Snydacker. Secretary, J. Newman. Financial Secretary, B. H. Seligman. Trustees, M. Einstein, C. Kozminski, J. Rosenberg, J. Rosenthal, C. Summerfield, C. Wilkowsky. Superintendent, F. Kiss.

WASHINGTONIAN HOME.-Corner Ogden Avenue and Madison Street. Incorporated February 16th, 1867. Established for the purpose of "providing a retreat for Inebriates, and means of reforming them." The corporate body of the Home is an Association, of which every member who has contributed twenty-five dollars is a life member. The funds for its support are derived from the sums received from the license fund of the City of Chicago and Cook County, from inmates for board and attendance, and from donations. Its management is vested in a Board of thirty Directors, who are chosen biennially by the Association, and the immediate oversight and control of its concerns in an Executive Committee, consisting of the President and four Directors. A Superintendent, chosen by the Executive Committee, has charge of the Home and inmates, and with his family resides in the Home. This institution was established from the conviction that many intemperate persons might be permanently restored to society, if a place could be provided, with suitable moral influences, where they could voluntarily put. themselves for a sufficient time to regain those feelings of selfrespect and habits of self-control essential to any reform. The price of board will depend upon the accommodations furnished and amount of attendance required. No person will be received for a less period than four weeks. Free patients are admitted by consent of the Executive Committee. Applications for admission can be addressed to the Superintendent. If application is made by letter, full statement should be given of the case, its duration, the state of general health, etc. Annual meeting, second Monday in January.

OFFICERS.-President, N. S. Davis, M. D. Vice-Presidents, C. J. Hull, A. G. Warner, C. G. Hayman. Secretary, H. C. Morey. Treasurer, C. N. Holden. Superintendent, D. Wilkins. Matron, Mrs. D. Wilkins. Attending Physician, C. W. Earle. Consulting Physician, T. D. Fitch. Committee on Admission and Discharge: C. G. Hayman, W. Warren, C. W. Earle, M. D.

ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH,

Created by Act of the Legislature. Approved 1877. (For law in full, and objects and duties of the Board, see page 121.) Annual meeting, Jan. 10, 1877, at Springfield. Meetings to examine candidates for license to practice are appointed as follows: Chicago, 10 A. M.,

Nov. 1st, at Grand Pacific Hotel; Cairo, 10 A. M., Nov. 15th, at Union Hotel; Galesburg, 10 A. M., Dec. 16th, at Union Hotel; Champaign, 10 A. M., Dec. 20th, at Industrial University; Springfield, 10 A. M., Jan. 10th, at State House; Charleston, January

MEMBERS.

NEWTON BATEMAN, LL. D., Galesburg.
R. LUDLAM, M. D., Chicago.

A. L. CLARK, M. D., Elgin.

WILLIAM CHAMBERS, M. D., Charleston.
JOHN GREGORY, LL. D., Champaign.

J. H. RAUCH, M. D., Chicago, President.

HORACE WARDNER, M. D., Cairo, Treasurer.

The terms of the members expire in the order named-one each year, beginning 1878. Secretary of the Board, E. W. Gray, M. D., Bloomington; salary, $1,000 per annum. Term expires, 1878.

A DIGEST

OF THE

LAWS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS

MOST USEFUL TO THE

MEDICAL PROFESSION.

-BY

O. R. BROUSE, A. M.,

OF THE CHICAGO BAR.

[The figures at the end of a paragraph indicate the pages and sections of the Revised Statutes of 1874, except when specially noted otherwise.]

For the Act of 1877, establishing the State Board of Health, we refer to the full text of the law, on page 121.

For the requirements of one who would practice medicine, we refer to the Act of 1877, on PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, on page 118.

ABORTION.-Producing abortion is a crime punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to ten years, unless the same be done as necessary to save the mother's life. And if death ensues from abortion, the person causing it is held for murder.-(p. 352, sec. 3.)

If any druggist or other person sells, advertises, or exposes for sale, any drugs, pills, powders, etc., designed expressly for females, without a certificate of five well-known and reputable physicians in the county that such combination is not abortifacient, except it be sold upon the written prescription of some well-known and respectable practicing physician, he may be fined from $50 to $500 for each offense, or confined in jail from thirty days to six months, or both. This does not apply to compounds known as "officinal."

And any one who advertises any medicine or instruments for producing abortion, may be fined $1,000, or imprisoned three years.(p. 352, sec. 3-6.)

ADMISSION TO HOSPITAL.-(See Hospital.)

ADULTERATION OF FOOD, MEDICINES, ETC.-Any person who adulterates, for the purpose of sale, any food, candy, medicines or liquors, with substance injurious to health, or sells, or offers for sale, adulterated bread, or other food, candy or confection, medicine or liquor, knowing it to be adulterated, or sell, or offer to sell, any flesh of a diseased animal, or other corrupt or unwholesome provision, may be confined in jail one year, or fined $1,000, or both.

Whoever adulterates milk with water, chalk or other substance, or knowingly sells such adulterated milk, may be confined in jail one year, or fined $500.—(p. 353, sec. 7-10.)

APPROPRIATIONS FOR CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.-(See the names of the several institutions.)

ATTACHMENT.-(See Collections.)

BASTARD.-If any woman shall endeavor by herself, or by the procurement of others, to conceal the death of any issue of her body which, if born alive, would be a bastard, whether it be murdered or not, she may be confined in the jail one year, and may also be indicted and punished for the murder of such child.-(p. 358, sec. 44.)

BIRTHS.-(See Registry.)

BLACKMAIL-Is punishable by fine of $500, or six months imprisonment.-(p. 365, sec. 93.)

BLIND, INSTITUTION FOR THE.--Established in 1849.-(Laws of 1849, p. 39; 1851, p. 100; 1857, p. 84. For objects, see Deaf and Dumb, Etc.)

The appropriations for the Institution for the Blind, at Jacksonville, for 1877-8, are: For expenses, $29,750 per annum; to enable Trustees to make final settlement with the contractors for the buildings, $2,332 24, and 8 per cent. interest from August 1, 1874.-(Laws 1877, p. 22.)

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC CHARITIES.-(See Charities.)

BOARD OF HEALTH, STATE.-(See Law, p. 121.)

BOARD OF HEALTH, TOWN.-The supervisors, assessor and clerk of every town constitute the board of health, and, on breaking out of any contagious disease, have power to enforce sanitary regulations. But this does not apply to parts of towns lying within corporate cities or villages. The town clerk keeps their records. (p. 1082, sec. 127-9.)

BODIES FOR DISSECTION.-In cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, wardens, coroners and city undertakers may deliver bodies to professors of medical colleges for dissection and study; provided, they have not been regularly interred, nor desired for interment by friends within 48 hours; and they shall not be so delivered when there are known relatives, except upon their written consent; and the body of no person detained for debt, or as a witness, or on suspicion of crime, or of any traveler, or of any person who shall have expressed a desire in his or her last sickness, for burial, shall be so delivered, but shall be interred. And the body of any person so delivered may be claimed by friends, and notice shall be given to known friends or relatives of deceased by the authorities. And such professors shall decently bury, in some public cemetery, the remains of such bodies after they have served the purpose of the study. And for any neglect or violation of these provisions, a fine of from $50 to $100 shall be paid, or the person imprisoned in jail from six to twelve months, or both. Such penalties to be sued for by health or school officers, or any person interested therein, for the benefit of the school fund or health department, as the case may be.

Using such bodies for any other purpose, or removing them from the State, or trafficing or assisting to traffic in them, in any manner, is punishable by imprisonment in jail one year, or less.

And every person delivering up a body in violation of or contrary to this law, and every person receiving such body, knowing it to have been so delivered, may be imprisoned in the jail two years.-(pp. 699 and 700.)

And the court may order the delivery of the body of a convict hung, unless objected to by friends.-(p. 412, sec. 443.)