reputable and in good standing and which requires as a prerequisite to graduation a course of study extending over at least six months, and in addition thereto, a practical experience of at least one year with an undertaker holding an embalmer's license."

§ 1b. From and after January 1, 1918, each school of embalming, in order to be deemed reputable and in good standing, shall require of each student as a condition precedent to graduation from such school that he have an education equivalent to the completion of the eighth grade of an approved graded public school.

Proof of preliminary education may be made as follows:

(1) By the certificate of the superintendent or principal of a graded public school or other equivalent school of the applicant having completed therein a course of study equivalent to the completion of the eighth grade of an approved graded public school, or,

(2) By the certificate of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in this State, or of a like state officer of another state or country, that the applicant has satisfactorily passed, before such superintendent or other like state officer of another state or country, an examination in studies equivalent to the studies pursued in the first eight grades of an approved graded public school.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction of this State shall collect in advance a fee of five dollars from each applicant.

§ 1c. The Department of Registration and Education shall have power and it shall be its duty:

(1) To make rules to establish a uniform and reasonable standard of educational requirements to be observed by schools of embalming, and to determine the reputability and good standing of such schools of embalming by reference to their compliance with such rules;

(2) To require satisfactory proof that schools of embalming, which are deemed to be reputable and in good standing, enforce the standard of preliminary education deemed by this Act requisite to admission to such school of embalming;

(3) To determine the standing of graded public schools or equivalent schools for the purpose of this Act.

APPROVED June 26, 1917.

AN ACT to authorize the organization of public health districts and for the establishment and maintenance of a health department for the

same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Any town, or two or more adjacent towns in counties under township organization, or any road district, or two or more road districts in counties not under township organization, or any town or towns in a county under township organization and an adjacent road district or road districts in a county not under township organization, may be organized into a public health district.

§ 2. Upon a petition containing the signatures of legal voters in number not less than five per cent of the total vote cast in any town or road district, and filed with the town or road district clerk at least thirty days before the regular town or road district election, the proposition of erecting such town or road district into a public health district shall be submitted to a vote of the people at the next regular town or road district election in the manner provided by this Act.

§ 3. Upon a petition requesting that two or more adjacent towns or road districts be erected into a health district and containing the signatures of legal voters in number not less than five per cent of the total vote cast in each of two or more adjacent towns or road districts, and filed with the county clerk at least thirty days before the regular town or road district election, the proposition of erecting such towns or road districts, or town and road district, into a public health district shall be submitted to a vote of the people of such towns or road districts at the

next regular town or road district election in the manner provided by this Act.

Where the towns or road districts desiring to be erected into a health district are in two or more counties, the petition shall be filed with the county clerk of the county in which the greater population of the proposed health district is located.

§ 4. Upon the filing of such petition with the town or road district clerk, the town or road district clerk shall, when giving notice of the holding of the next regular town or district election, also give notice that a vote will be taken at the regular town or district election for or against the proposition of the erection of the town or road district into a public health district[.]

§ 5. Upon the filing of such petition with the county clerk, such county clerk shall, at least twenty days prior to the regular town or district election, certify to the town or district clerk of each town or road district, petitions for which are on file in his office requesting that such towns or road districts be erected into a public health district, that the proposition of erecting such towns or road districts (naming them) will be submitted to a vote of the people of the towns or road districts at the regular town or road district election. The town or district clerk shall, when giving notice of the holding of the next regular town or district election, also give notice that a vote will be taken at the town or district election for or against the erection of the towns or road districts (naming them) into a public health district.

§ 6. The proposition shall be voted upon in the same manner as a constitutional amendment or other public measure.

When the proposition to be voted upon is to erect a town or road district into a public health district, the proposition may be substantially in the following form:

When the proposition to be voted upon is to erect two or more adjacent towns or road districts into a public health district, the proposition may be substantially in the following form:

7. When the proposition voted upon is to erect a single town or road district into a public health district, such proposition shall be carried if a majority of those voting upon the proposition shall vote "yes."

When the proposition voted upon is to erect two or more adjacent towns or road districts into a health district, such proposition shall be carried if the majority of those voting upon the proposition in each town or road district shall vote "yes."

§ 8. When the proposition is submitted to the voters of a single town or road district, the ballots shall be counted, the returns canvassed and the result declared as in the case of a regular town or district election.

§ 9. When the proposition is submitted to the voters of two or more adjacent towns or road districts, the ballots shall be counted and the returns made to the county clerk of the county wherein the petition was filed as in the case of returns to the county clerk at a general election. The returns shall be opened and canvassed by the county clerk, with the assistance of two justices of the peace of the county, and the result declared.

§ 10. The town or district clerk, or the county clerk, as the case may be, shall record the result of the vote upon the proposition and such result may be proved in all courts and in all proceedings by such record or by a certified copy thereof.

§ 11. In counties not under township organization the county commissioners shall be the board of health for each public health district in the county.

Where a public health district, in counties under township organization, consists of a single town, the supervisor, assessor and town clerk of such town shall be the board of health for such public health district.

Where a public health district consists of two or more adjacent towns, the supervisors of such towns, together with the chairman of the county board, shall be the board of health for such public health district.

Where a public health district consists of a town or towns in a county under township organization united with a road district or road. districts in a county not under township organization, the supervisor or supervisors of the town or towns, together with the road district clerk or road district clerks, shall be the board of health for such public health district.

A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

§ 12. The board of health shall meet in some convenient place in the public health district within two weeks after the declaration of the results of the election, and shall elect from their own number a chairman and a secretary, and, either from their own number or otherwise, a treasurer.

§ 13. The board of health shall, at its first meeting, select a suitable name for the public health district and file the same with the county clerk, or county clerks, of the county or counties in which the district is located, and thenceforth the public health district shall be a body corporate and shall be known by that name. Upon the filing of such name with the county clerk, or county clerks, the public health district shall be deemed to be completely organized.

§ 14. All courts shall take judicial notice of all public health districts organized under this Act.

§ 15. Each board of health shall have power and it shall be its duty:

1. To hold an annual meeting on the second Tuesday in April of each year, at which meeting officers shall be elected for the ensuing year; 2. To hold meetings quarterly on the second Tuesday of January, April, July and October;

3. To hold special meetings upon a written request signed by two members and filed with the secretary;

4. To levy, annually, in addition to all other taxes which are now or hereafter may be authorized to be levied on the aggregate valuation of all property within the public health district, a special "public health tax," not to exceed four mills on the dollar on all taxable property embraced within such public health district, according to the valuation of the same as made for the purpose of State and county taxation, to form, when collected, a fund to be known as the "public health fund;"

5. To appoint a public health officer from a list of eligibles supplied by the State Department of Public Health;

6. To appoint, upon the advice and approval of the public health officer, such nurses, chemists, experts, clerks and assistants as the public health officer may deem necessary;

7. To fix the compensation of the public health officer, which shall in no case be less than one thousand five hundred dollars;

8. To provide, equip and maintain suitable offices, facilities and

appliances for the health officer and his assistants;

9. To establish, equip and maintain an analytical, biological and research laboratory;

10. To pay, from the "public health fund," the salary of the public health officer and the salaries of all appointees and employees and the expense of maintenance of the public health department, including therein the expense of administering the sanitation and health laws and ordinances;

11. To acquire and hold, in the name of the public health district, real estate and personal property;

12. To receive contributions of money or property;

13. To publish, annually, on or soon after the second Tuesday in April, in pamphlet form, for free distribution, an annual report showing the condition of their trust on the first day of April of that year, the sums of money received from taxation and from other sources, giving the name of the donor, how all moneys have been expended and for what purpose, and such other statistics and information in regard to the work of the health department as they may deem of general interest.

§ 16. It shall be the duty of the State Department of Public Health to prepare, by open, competitive examination, of which notice. shall be given in the "official newspaper," selected by the Department of Public Works and Buildings, for at least three weeks prior to the holding of such examination, a list of eligibles for appointment as public health officers.

17. The public health officer shall have power, and it shall be his duty:

1. To be the executive officer of the board of health;