1-Insert name of place. ?-Date. 3-Strike out superfluous word "male" or "female". 4-State number of years and months. 5-Indicate "reason" assigned by checking the proper initial; if this be "C", write under the letter the figure showing the number of unsuccessful attempts. 6-If the examinations are all made by one physician, he need sign only two stubs in each block. If the persons examined are all in one town the name of the town need be given only twice in each block. If they are students, or others. at a private school or academy, or at a college or university: or inmates of a public institution; or employes of a corporation, manufactory. etc., the designation of such educational establishment, public institution, corporation, manufactory, etc., should be stated on at least two stubs of each block. The certificates are furnished only on condition that these stubs, properly filled out, be returned to the Secretary, State Board of Health, Springfield, Ill. Physicians who desire to retain a set of the stubs may obtain duplicate blocks by addressing the Secretary. In addition to the State institutions, these certificates, mounted in blocks of 25s, 50s and 100s, were furnished, on application, to private and parochial schools, colleges, academies, etc., to railroad, steamboat and other officers, and to a large number of employers of various kinds. From the State institutions there were returned reports of 5,988 individuals, and from other sources 12,720 additional, making a total of 18,708. Of these there were protected against small-pox by reason of (A) Successful recent primary vaccination... revaccination..... (A-D) Successful recent vaccination after previous attack of small-pox or varioloid... Number. Per cent. The only feature of the above figures which seems notable, is the large number of cases of previous attacks of small-pox or varioloid. Taken together, group D-"protected by previous attack," and group A-D-"protected by successful recent vaccination after previous attack," aggregate 423 cases of previous attacks of small-pox out of a total of 18,708 individuals, or more than two and one-quarter per cent. Compared with the public school-children, this is seen to be an enormous excess. In the State at large the proportion of such cases is only nine-tenths of one per cent., while among the Chicago scholars it is even less-.86 of one per cent. The disparity is undoubtedly due to the classes comprised in the returns from the State institutions the defective, dependent and delinquent classes. In The average number of unsuccessful attempts at vaccination held to demonstrate insusceptibility is only 2.98; a very large number wére attempted only twice, and very few five times or more. view of the results in private practice, this average can hardly be regarded as satisfactory, and it is possible that a considerable number of those attempted two or three times only, are still susceptible to small-pox. LIST OF PHYSICIANS CONTRIBUTING TO THE TWO PRECEDING SECTIONS. Name. Postoffice Address. County. Cumberland Will Adams.. Lake. Champaign Washington Macoupin Macon. Macon Monroe Kane Name. Howard. Thomas D. Hubbard, H. C.. Hubbard, Silas Huddleston, Jno Hughes, John Owen Hull, M. D.... Hutchinson, C..... INGERSOLL, Ellen A. Ingles, J. A. Ingraham, Sereno W Inskeep, James E. JEFFRIES, John A. Jewell, P. M.. Jewett, D. L Johnson, B. F Jones, W. H.. KEENER, H. N. LACKEY, J. S Loar, James. Lodge, A. N Long, H. H. Lowrie, J. L. Lucas, G. W. Lycan, Riley S. MAJOR, F. W Miller, J. H.. McHenry. Mills, T. G. Normal County. DuPage McLean McLean Williamson... Cook.. Fulton Wayne. Bureau Woodford McLean Monroe.. Will. Madison.. Champaign Champaign McLean McLean Williamson Henry. Edgar Rock Island. LaSalle.. Rock Island. McLean McLean Adams.. Gallatin McLean Moyer, H. W Moyer, M. L. Tampico Grand View. Kankakee Butler Whiteside. 'Will... |