Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1910 [PAGE 80]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

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No. 3, Chemical and Biological Survey of the Waters of Illinois. Report for year ending Aug. 31, 1906. No. 4. Mineral Content of Illinois Waters. (In press.) No. 5. Municipal Water Supplies of Illinois, 1907. No. 6. Chemical and Biological Survey of the Waters of Illinois. Report, Sept. 1, 1906, to Dec. 31, 1907. (In press.) No. 7. Chemical and Biological Survey of the Waters of Illinois. Report for year ending Dec. 31, 1908. (In press.) The last Legislature appropriated $6,000 per annum for the work of the Survey. One thousand dollars has been made available by the State Board of Health for bacteriological examinations and during the current year, in addition to furnishing rooms and a considerable amount of apparatus and chemicals, the University has allotted $1,350 for additional equipment, for printing and for laboratory assistance. The work done by the Survey may be considered as analytical and experimental, diagnostic, and educational. Under the first head, analytical and experimental, is included the analyses made at the instance of the Survey to determine normal constituents of the waters of the State, and special investigations of methods of analysis and methods of treating waters, as for example, a study of farm water supplies; the work for the Sanitary District of Chicago on streams examination; the study of methods for the determination of nitrogen as nitrates, etc. Under the second head, diagnostic, would be included the large number of analyses made at the request of health officers or citizens of the State to determine the suitability of certain waters for drinking purposes. This class of work has increased greatly so that it occupies a large proportion of the time of the active staff. The educational work of the Survey, in addition to the bulletins, includes the circulars on interpretation of results, which are. sent out with each analysis, and lectures to communities on problems connected with the water supplies. We believe that provision should be made for the annual examination of the water from each municipal water supply of the State; that investigations should be carried on to determine the proper method of treating each supply, to make it most suitable for domestic and manufacturing uses. No stream in the State furnishes without treatment a water suitable for domestic use. The Water Survey should examine these supplies at regular intervals, and not only give advice concerning methods of purification, but should have power to enforce its recommendations. Provision should be made that investigations may be carried on in connection with the Lake Michigan Water Commission, of which the director was made a member by executive appointment. In connection with the conservation of the resources, the State Water Survey should be authorized to investigate and control the pollution of the streams of the State by domestic sewage or manufacturing wastes. GRADUATE SCHOOL FUNDS. 6. Communication from the dean of the Graduate School concerning the appropriation of the balance of the Graduate School fund. Voted on motion of Mr. Madden that the balance of the sum appropriated by the Legislature for the maintenance of the Graduate School for the biennum 1907-09 be now appropriated for the provision of additional equipment in books, manuscripts, maps, apparatus and other supplies, and for the expenses—including extra help, cases, etc.—incidental to caring for this additional equipment, for the purpose of strengthening the departments represented in the Graduate Schopl in order to put them into fair working condition as far as possible, and