FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED September 30, 1882. To State Treasurer: STATE Board of Health, Dr. Amount of regular appropriation. July 1, 1881 Amount of special appropriation (contingent epidemic fund).. To Treasurer of the Board: $5,500 00 5,000 00 ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 1882. At the date of the Treasurer's last report (see page xxxii, Fourth Annual Report,) the balance on hand was $457 51: but out of this there was subsequently pald $285.00 for indebtedness incurred in the fiscal year ended September 30, 1881-as shown in the Treasurer's report hereto appended. This left $172.51 the net balance in the Treasurer's hands, available for the fiscal year 1881-82. +Including amounts paid for postage. express charges, railroad fares, hotel bills, and all other expenses incidental to the meetings of the BOARD. REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE ILLINOS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED Sep TEMBER 30, 1883. To the President and Members of the Illinois State Board of Health: GENTLEMEN:-Your treasurer begs leave to present the following report of the receipts and expenditures of his office for the period commencing with the date of his last annual report, October 1, 1881, and ended September 30, 1882. GENERAL ACCOUNT-DR. Balance on hand to credit of general account, Sept. 30, 1881... $457 51 1881 April 1 Received of Dr. J. H, Rauch, office receipts for October...... 1881 $38 00 November....1881 35 00 20 00 January.. ..1882 26 00 February.....1882 24 00 March 1882 Sept. April. May.. June. 15 F. E. Taliafero, clerical services, July, August.. September, 1881. $215 60 April 14 Dr. J. H. Rauch, office expenses, for October, 1881.. November, 188!. 25 01 11.50 18.80 7 60 16 80 Isham & Prentice, rent, Chicago office, March, April, May, 1882.. 56 85 95.55 30 00 Balance in my hands, September 30, 1882.. $831 60 $834 60 220 91 $1,055 51 All of which is respectfully submitted. A. L. CLARK, M. D., Treasurer. Audited and approved: NEWTON BATEMAN, Auditing Committee. MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE REGULATION OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, 1883. MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE REGULATION OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. IN June, 1880, the ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH appointed a committee to formulate a Schedule of Educational Requirements and Characteristics, by which to determine the good standing of medical colleges. This step was taken in order to enable the BOARD the better to discharge the duty devolved upon it by the Act to Regulate the Practice of Medicine in the State of Illinois; and by which Act the BOARD is directed to "issue certificates [entitling to practice] to all who furnish satisfactory proof of having received diplomas or licenses from legally-chartered medical institutions in good standing." The following Schedule was prepared by the committee, and subsequently formally adopted by the BOARD, as the standard entitling to recognition, as the basis of legal qualification for practice in Illinois, any diploma issued after the session of 1882-83: MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR A MEDICAL COLLEGE TO BE HELD IN "GOOD STANDING." I. CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION TO LECTURE COURSES. 1. Credible certificates of good moral standing. 2. Diplomas of graduation from a good literary and scientific college, or high school. Or, lacking this, 3. A thorough examination in the branches of a good English education, including mathematics, English composition, and elementary physics or natural philosophy. II. BRANCHES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE ΤΟ BE INCLUDED IN THE COURSE OF 1. Anatomy. 2. Physiology. 3. Chemistry. 4. Materia Medical and Therapeutics. 5. Theory and Practice of Medicine. 6. Pathology. 7. Surgery. 8. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 9. Hygiene. 10. Medical Jurisprudence (Forensic Medicine). |