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Illinois Day has been set for July 24 and Chicago Day for October 9. Aside from the expenditures on the erection of the building, the total expenses of the commission to date have been only $3,944.

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

The State Board of Health, during the biennial period, has been exceedingly alert to the demands upon it. During the two years, 73,786 packages of diphtheria anti-toxin have been distributed by the board at a total cost of $57,270. This anti-toxin has been employed in 23,100 cases of diphtheria, and the mortality throughout the State has decreased to 7 per cent as compared with 40 per cent in pre-anti-toxin days.

In 1914 the board distributed, without charge, vaccine against typhoid fever, and 6,000 packages of this agent have already been used. During 1913-1914, one hundred and thirteen indigent persons were treated for rabies, under the direction of the board, at a cost to the State of $6,161. Recently the board has begun the distribution of a solution of nitrate of silver for use in the prevention of blindness, occasioned by child birth infection of the eyes.

Illinois has never provided for the free distribution of small pox vaccines. During the last year 3,650 cases were reported in the State. Four thousand cases of typhoid fever were reported during the year, due to the ever increasing pollution of water supplies. During the two years the board's laboratory has examined 1,185 specimens of blood for the early diagnosis of this disease.

A sanitary survey of summer resorts was made in 1914. The board caused the inspection in 1913 of 4,900 dairies, and in 1911 of 3,600. During the last year these inspections were confined largely to the Chicago district, to prevent the milk rejected by Chicago being dumped into other Illinois communities.

Nine hundred special investigations were made in the two years on account of insanitary conditions and the unusual prevalence of communicable diseases. The laboratory of the board has examined 9,000 specimens for the scientific diagnosis of communicable diseases, of which 4,804 were for tuberculosis, 1,741 for diphtheria, 2,118 for typhoid fever.

At the present time, the laboratory is making Wassermann tests for indigent persons, and within a short period of time expects to open branch laboratories in the southern and northern parts of the State for the early diagnosis of diphtheria.

An effort has been made to induce municipalities, operating without health ordinances, to adopt them, and in many instances the ordinances passed have been those recommended by the board.

During the past two years, the board has examined 1,153 physicians, 201 midwives, 260 other practitioners, 378 embalmers. It reports that during this time the standards of medical education have been distinctly raised, the period of instruction being lengthened from four to five years.

DEPARTMENT OF DEPORTATION.

This department makes its first annual report. One hundred and nine persons were removed from our State institutions to other states and governments. Thirty deportable aliens are awaiting deportation. During the year, 1,509 patients committed to State hospitals, were investigated and found to be legal residents of the State. On account of the department's close record of deportable aliens and non-resident insane persons, brought to the court of Cook county for examination as to their sanity, fifty-five aliens and thirtyseven non-residents were either dismissed or parolled to friends, because of the latter's knowledge of its existence and activity.

It is reported that during the year only seven insane persons were returned to Illinois from neighboring states through this department.

The department estimates that the total gross savings to the State through the deportation of these 109 persons was $156,960.

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has just completed its report of industrial accidents for the year ending December 31, 1913. Arrangements have been made with the Industrial Board to compile the reports of accidents, covered by the present and revised compensation law for the first year of its existence, which embraces about 15,000 reports.

The 1914 biennial report on child labor is almost complete. It covers the investigation of child labor in cities of 50,000 or more and deals with the apparent physical and mental status of children, the condition of employment, the income of the child and of the parents, the extent of education, etc.

The Bureau recommends the consolidation of the Free Employment offices in Chicago into one Bureau, with separate departments for skilled labor, unskilled labor, clerical positions, and domestic service.

BOARD OF PHARMACY.

The State Board of Pharmacy was created to protect the innocent public from unscrupulous dealers in drugs, medicines, and poisons.

During the year the board has held eight examinations of applicants for registration as pharmacists and assistant pharmacists. Six hundred and fifty-five applicants for the first and four hundred and forty-two for the second grade have been personally examined, the greatest number in one year since its organization.

The board says that, in no year since its organization, has there been such close inspection of drug stores. Sixty-three offenders in the State, outside of Chicago, have been prosecuted and fines amounting to $2,530 turned into the State treasury. Seventy cases have been instituted in Chicago, and in practically all of them judgments have been obtained. From January 1, 1914, to November 18, 1914, fees and fines, collected by the board, amounted to $21,200, an increase of more than ten per cent over any like period of time.

STATE FACTORY INSPECTOR.

The chief factory inspector has made a notable record during the last year. A total of 60,198 inspections were made, compared with 40,103 of the year before. Under the child labor law, 32,981 inspections were made, against 26,495 during the preceding year. In the enforcement of the law regulating the hours of employment of women, 17,969 inspections were made as against 8,079 during the preceding year; under the "health, safety and comfort" law, 5,785 inspections contrast with 3,845; 917 inspections were made under the "structural iron" law, as against 590 the year before. The "metal polishers" law required 1,362 inspections, against 701; the "ice cream and butterine" law required 485 inspections and 260 licenses, against 205 inspections and 165 licenses.

Under the "occupational disease" law, 721 inspections were made, against 187. A total of 252 firms are now reporting monthly under the provision of the "occupational disease" law, as against 166 firms in the preceding year.

During the past year, 795 cases were brought before the courts, 69 of which were discharged and 726 convicted; fines and costs amounted to $10,679. This record is contrasted with 434 prosecutions and 396 convictions, with fines and costs amounting to $6,240 in 1913.

GRAIN INSPECTION DEPARTMENT.

Due to an unjustifiable reduction of fees for the inspection of grain from 50 cents to 35 cents per car, made by the Railway and Warehouse Commission in December, 1912, earnings of this department, in the Chicago district, during the last fiscal year were about $40,000 less than during the preceding year, with result that the disbursements exceeded the receipts by about $46,000.

The Public Utilities Commission, on viewing the situation, has increased the fees to 50 cents per car for "in" inspection and 50 cents per 1,000 bushel for "out" inspection.

Under these new fees, receipts of the department for the quarter ending September 30, 1914, exceeded disbursements by nearly $20,000, so that it is expected receipts hereafter will meet the expenses.

That the department is being operated in an efficient manner is being demonstrated by the almost entire absence of complaints either from shippers or receivers, this obviously being the most accurate barometer of the high standard of inspection attained by the department.

The chief grain inspector recommends that the grading of all grain in the State shall be by duly classified inspectors. The present conditions whereby any locality may operate, independent of the State, does not, in his opinion, tend to give all shippers of grain that wholly impartial grading which they should have.

COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE VOLUNTARY CHARITABLE SOCIETIES SOLICITING CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS AND CHILD HOME FINDING ORGANIZATIONS.

The Forty-eighth General Assembly, by House joint resolution No. 36, created a joint committee of five representatives and five senators to investigate into the methods and actions of certain charitable institutions and organizations licensed by the State, and all societies and organizations licensed by the State to handle children under the juvenile law, and to investigate the accounts, receipts and expenditures of said institutions and organizations for the purpose of determining where all such moneys go, and whether or not they go to such institutions, etc., etc.

Said committee has a report ready to present to the Forty-ninth General Assembly. In this report they state that they have not completed their work of investigation; that they have in the course of their investigations unearthed a very scandalous state of affairs in relation to the disposal of children in this State; that they have discovered cases in which children have been bought and sold as merchandise; that with the little time and money at their disposal they have been unable to make a thorough investigation of all the maternity hospitals and other institutions of like character, and request that their existence be continued to enable them to complete their investigation.

I, therefore, recommend that the committee appointed by the Fortyeighth General Assembly be continued for further investigation under the same powers heretofore given them, and that a reasonable appropriation be made to them to carry on their work.

STATE FINANCES.

In relation to the finances of the State, they are in a most excellent condition, the cash balance on hand in the State treasury on January 1, 1915, being $10,310,015.95.

For full information and figures concerning said State finances, I refer you to the reports of the Auditor of Public Accounts and State Treasurer.

The Constitution requires the Governor at the commencement of each regular session to present estimates of the amount of money required to be raised by taxation for all purposes.

In this connection, I would direct your attention to the budget which will be presented to you by the Legislative Reference Bureau, which contains estimates by the various department heads as to their needs for the coming two years. I earnestly request your cooperation in pruning and cutting down the same, where possible, to the actual needs and necessities of efficient administration.

EXECUTIVE EXPENDITURES.

For a statement of expenditures, made by me for this department from funds subject to my order, your attention is directed to the biennial report

of the Auditor of Public Accounts. Vouchers for all such expenditures have been filed in the Auditor's office. E. F. DUNNE, Governor.

Mr. Burnes moved that the reading of the Governor's message be dispensed with, and that 10,000 copies be printed for the use of the members,

And the motion prevailed.

Mr. Dudgeon offered the following resolution and moved its adoption:

HOUSE RESOLUTION No. 21.

Resolved, That the Speaker be, and is hereby empowered, to appoint for the House, all employees authorized by an act of the General Assembly, approved May 25, 1911.

And the resolution was adopted.

Mr. Tice offered the following resolution and moved its adoption:

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 1.

Resolved, by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein, That the two Houses meet in joint session in the Hall of the House of Representatives, on Wednesday the 17th day of February, A. D. 1915, at the hour of 9:00 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of canvassing the returns of the election for State officers, held on the 3d day of November, A. D. 1914, as required by the Constitution of this State.

And the resolution was adopted.

Ordered that the Clerk inform the Senate thereof, and ask their concurrence therein..

Mr. Garesche offered the following resolution, and moved its adoption:

HOUSE RESOLUTION No. 22.

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House, immediately after the passage of this resolution, place in separate boxes, arranged according to seniority of service, the name of each member on separate slips of paper; that he then proceed in the presence of the House, to draw one slip at a time, first from the box, containing the names of those of longest service, and so on down until all have been exhausted, and as each slip is drawn, he shall announce the name of the member upon it, who shall then and there choose his seat for the session: Provided, that before the drawing commences, the Speaker shall cause every seat to be vacated.

And the resolution was adopted.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Eden, Secretary:

Mr. Speaker-I am directed to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has organized by election of the following officers, and is now ready for the transaction of business:

President pro tempore-Stephen D. Canady.
Secretary-A. E. Eden.

A. E. EDEN, Secretary of the Senate.

At the hour of 4:40 o'clock p. m., Mr. Smejkal moved that the House do now take a recess until 8:45 o'clock p. m.,

And the motion prevailed.

8:45 O'CLOCK P. M.

The hour of 8:45 o'clock p. m. having arrived, the House resumed its session.

The Speaker in the Chair.

A message from the Senate by Mr. Russell, First Assistant Secretary:

Mr. Speaker-I am directed to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has concurred with them in the adoption of the following preamble and joint resolution, to wit:

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 1.

Resolved, by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein, That the two Houses meet in joint session in the Hall of the House of Representatives, on Wednesday, the 17th day of February, A. D. 1915, at the hour of 9:00 p. m., for the purpose of canvassing the returns of the election for State officers, held on the 3d day of November, A. D. 1914, as required by the Constitution of this State.

Concurred in by the Senate, Wednesday, February 17, 1915.

A. E. EDEN, Secretary of the Senate.

JOINT SESSION.

The hour of 9:00 o'clock p. m. having arrived, being the time heretofore fixed by the joint resolution adopted by the House of Representatives and the Senate, at which the returns of the election of State officers should be canvassed and published in the presence of the two Houses.

The Senate, preceded by its President, appeared in the Hall of the House of Representatives, and, by direction of the Speaker, were assigned seats.

Thereupon the Joint Assembly was called to order by the Speaker of the House.

The President of the Senate directed the Secretary of the Senate to call the roll of the Senate.

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The President of the Senate announced a quorum of the Senate present.

The Speaker of the House directed the Clerk of the House to call the roll of the members of the House, whereupon the following members answered to their names:

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