JOURNAL AND EXAMINER, which comprise all the leading home and foreign medical periodicals, and all the new medical books published in this country, as well as many of those published in other countries, are constantly added to the library Valuable donations of books and sets of periodicals are being made constantly by members and friends of the Association. The rooms of the Association are at 188 Clark street. The library is open daily for the use of members-none but members are admitted. The annual meeting of the stockholders is held on the first Tuesday in December. The Board of Directors meet the first Tuesday of each month. The Directors appoint the editors, librarian, and other officers. OFFICERS.-Directors: E. Ingals, President; J. H. Etheridge, Secretary; J. E, Owens, Treasurer; J. P. Ross, W. H. Byford, F. C. Hotz, T. D. Fitch, A. H. Foster, J. N. Hyde. Librarian, Norman Bridge. CHICAGO MEDICAL JOURNAL AND EXAMINER.-Established 1844 as the ILLINOIS AND INDIANA MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL; changed in 1848 to NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL, and in 1858 to CHICAGO MEDICAL JOURNAL, which united in 1875 with the CHICAGO MEDICAL EXAMINER. Published monthly, under the auspices of the Medical Press Association, 188 Clark street. Two volumes a year. Annual subscription price, $4. EDITORS, W. H. Byford, J. N. Hyde, F. C. Hotz, E. F. Ingals. JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE.-Established 1871. Published quarterly in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. Subscription price $5 per annum. EDITORS, J. S. Jewell and H. M. Bannister, Chicago. Associate Editors, W. A. Hammond, New York; S. W. Mitchell, Philadelphia. MONTHLY JOURNAL OF THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.-Edited by C. W. Dunning, and Horace Wardner, Committee on Publi cation. Established at Cairo, 1877. $1.50 per annum, THE AMERICAN MEDICAL REVIEW AND INDEX.-A monthly Journa devoted to the interests of Scientific and Practical Medicine. Established at Anna, Illinois, July, 1878. James I. Hale, M. D., Editor. Terms, $1.00 per annum. THE ILLINOIS MEDICAL RECORDER.- Published monthly at Vandalia, under the auspices of The District Medical Society of Central Illinois. ERITOR R. E. Beach. Associate Editors, F. Haller, Vandalia; W. J. Chenoweth, Decatur; T. D. Washburn, Hillsboro; B. M. Griffiths, Springfield. $1.50 per annum. PHARMACY. CHICAGO COLLEGE OF PHARMACY-Northwest corner of Wabash Avenue and Jackson Street. Incorporated September, 1859. For promoting a higher education in pharmacy. It maintains a school of Pharmacy and a monthly journal, The Pharmicist. Annual meetings first Wednesday in March. Meetings for papers and scientific discussions are held the second Wednesdays of each month from October to April. The members are active, associate, honorary and life. Initiation fee $5. Annual dues, $5. The Twelfth Annual Course of Instruction will commence the 2d of October, 1878. Fees: Matriculation, $4; lecture tickets, $36; graduation fee, $5. Lectures continue twenty-one weeks, and are given Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons. OFFICERS.-President, H, Biroth. Vice-Presidents, N. G. Bartlett, S. L. Coffin. Secretary, G. H. Ackerman. Treasurer, A. G. Vogeler. Corresponding Secretary, R. H. Cowdrey. Faculty: N. Gray Bartlett, Chemistry; J. W. Mill, Pharmacy; E. S. Bastin, Botany; H. D. Garrison, Materia Medica and Toxicology. J, R. Blaney, Instructor in Laboratory, ACTIVE MEMBERS. Ackerman, G. H., Ogden Ave. & Harrison. Krusemarck, C. Bartlett, N. G., 92 22d. Bliss, S. S., 70 State. Biroth, H., 86 Archer Ave. Borcherdt, J. C., 735 W. Madison. Buck, G., 117 Clark. Bronald, H., 208 N. Clark. Borland, M. W., 378 W. Van Buren. Dyche, D. R., State and Randolph. Fuller, H. W., 24 Market. Fredigke, C. C. Filbert, F. J. Goll, Bruno, 505 S. Canal. Goodman, F. M., 133 S. Halsted. Jacobus, J. S., 1401 Indiana Ave. Koehsel, J. E. Kruell, F. J., 334 Milwaukee Ave. Matthei, E., 136 Canalport Ave. Plautz, C. H., 709 Milwaukee Ave. Roemheld, J., 204 S. Halsted. Sweet, H., 126 Milwaukee Ave. Schulz, J. H., 184 Cottage Grove Ave. Scherer, A. Somers, Frank G. Vanderburgh, A. C., 202 State. The Pharmicist is a monthly journal of pharmacy, chemistry, and the ouly one of its class published in the West. It is published by authority of the College. Manager, J. J. Siddall. Terms, $1.50 per annum. CHICAGO DRUGGISTS' ASSOCIATION.-Organized May 15th, 1877, as the West Side Druggists' Association, Re-organized in October, with the present name. Meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month, at 3 P. M. Its objects are: Improvement of its members, to promote the interest of pharmacy, and to regulate the retail drug trade in the sale of proprietary medicines. Any pharmacist or druggist of good moral and professional standing may become a member. OFFICERS.-President, M. W. Borland; Secretary, J. S. Jacobus, COOK COUNTY. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES. Including the County Hospital, Insane Asylum, Poor House, County Physician's and County Agent's offices, Established as a Department, January, 1872, The Board of County Commissioners has the general management of these institutions. through its Hospital Committee and COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC CHARITIES-G. W. Spofford, A. Meyer, H. J. Lenzen, H C. Senne, J. Bradley. COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL.-Corner Wood and Harrison Streets.-(See Hospitals.) COOK COUNTY INSANE ASYLUM.-Located at Jefferson, ten miles northwest of Chicago. It is for the insane poor of the county, and the inmates are chiefly chronic cases. Number of inmates at the close of 1877, 401. Patients are admitted by the same process as to the State asylums.-(See Abstract of Laws, REGISTER, 1877-78). OFFICERS.-J. C. Spray, Medical Superintendent. A. W. Hagenbach, Assistant Physician, H. M. Peters, Warden, Peter Paulson, Assistant. Miss A. Rexford, Matron. ADVISORY MEDICAL BOARD.-H. M. Lyman, President. J. M. Hutchinson, Secretary. J. S. Jewell, D. R. Brower, T. J. Bluthardt. COOK COUNTY AGENT.- Office, 29 S. Canal street. Present incumbent, P. McGrath, His duties are to investigate all applications for county aid and relief; to have a general oversight of the county poor who live at their own homes and are worthy of assistance; to distribute food, clothing and fuel; to give transportation to paupers who are not residents of the county; to send the sick to the County Hospi tal or the Poor House, and, on the decree of the court, to the Insane Asylum, During 1877 there was an average, for each quarter, of 4,603 families receiving aid. There were 1,548 passes issued for transportation; 1,300 orders for the Hospital 1,121 persons sent to the County House; 483 burial orders issued; 1,955 orders issued to dispensary physicians for treatment of patients at their homes; 198 persons re, ported to be insane, to be tried at the county's expense. The South Side Dispensary has charge of the medical service connected with this office for the South Division; the Central Dispensary for the West Division; and Dr. P M. Woodworth for the North Division. COOK COUNTY POOR-HOUSE.-Located at Jefferson, with the Insane, Asylum. It is for the care and treatment of the chronic and incurable county patients, as well as the old and indigent who require constant assistance. A large farm is connected with the institution, for the employment of those who are able to work. Paupers are sent on the order of the County Agent. The Warden, Superintendent and Assistant Physicians, are the same as for the Insane Asylum. COOK COUNTY PHYSICIAN.-Office, County Building. Elected annually. Present incumbent, Henry Geiger. Salary, $2,000 per annum. His duties are chiefly to make post mortem examinations for the Coroner, examine all cases of alleged insanity with which the county is chargeable, and to visit daily and prescribe for the inmates of the County Jail. During 1877 there were 141 post mortem examinations made, and 263 persons visited for alleged insanity. CORONER FOR COOK COUNTY.-Emil Dietzsch. Office, County Building.(For laws governing, see Abstract of Laws, Register, 1877-8.) COOK COUNTY MORGUE.-Corner 18th and Arnold streets. Opened June 1872. It is in charge of the Warden of the Hospital and Coroner. Established for the reception of the bodies of unknown persons drowned, or found dead in the streets. A book is kept in the office of the Morgue, in which citizens may record the names of missing friends, and their description, with addresses to which information may be sent. No corpse is received unless in charge of a policeman, or on the order of the Coroner, or Superintendent of Police, except when the Warden is sure the body was found dead in the street, or was drowned. An accurate record of the details of the recovery of any corpse is kept in the Morgue, with full description of the body and clothing, and other things found thereon. Bodies remain on exhibition seventy-two hours, when, if unclaimed, they are buried; but the clothing and effects remain on exhibition twenty-one days longer. Photographs of all unrecognized bodies are taken and kept for inspection of parties hunting for missing friends. No body taken to the Morgue is taken away, or interred, except on the written order of the Coroner. The clothing of unrecognized bodies, after the period of public exhibition has expired, is washed and tied up in a package, and kept for six months. CITY OF CHICAGO. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ROOM 8, CITY HALL, CORNER LASALLE AND ADAMS STREETS. COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH.-O. C. De Wolfe, M. D. Sanitary Inspectors.-E. W. Sawyer, M. D., South Division; E. Garrott, M. D., West Division; J. M. Hall, M. D., North Division. Registrar of Vital Statistics.-H. P. Wright. Milk Inspector.-Louis Merki. There are twenty Sanitary Policemen under charge of the Commissioner. For the powers and duties of the Health Department, and Laws regulating Sanitary matters, see Abstract of Laws, Register, 1877-8. Chicago Small-Pox Hospital.-Corner California Avenue and 26th Street. Patients re sent to the Hospital on the order of the Health Department. It is in charge of the City Physician, W. P. Dunne. City Physician.-Appointed bi-ennially by the Mayor and City Council. Salary, $1,500 per annum. His principal duties are to attend the Police Stations, the Small-Pox Hospital and the Bridewell. Present Incumbent, W. P. Dunne. SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.-No. 263 Wabash avenue. Established in 1857, as the Chicago Academy of Natural Sciences. Incorporated February 16th, 1865 under the present name. The Academy is an association whose object is the increase and diffusion of scientific knowledge, by a museum and library, the reading and publication of original papers, and other suitable means. It is composed of life, resident, and corresponding members. Any person may become a life member by payment of $500. Resident members are elected from among residents of Chicago, on recommendation of the committee on membership. The initiation fee is $10, and the annual due, $5. Corresponding memberships are conferred on scientific men not living in Chicago, by a vote of the Academy. Meetings are held every month, on the second Tuesday evening, except the months of July, August and September. At the meetings, scientific papers are read, discussions entered |