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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Department of Public Health in offering a Sewage W o r k s Operators' Short Course in March, 1939. It is proposed to charge each student registrant a fee of $10 to cover necessary expenses. I recommend that the proposal and the fee be approved and that the collections of that fee (estimated at $150) be appropriated for the expenses of the course, any balance remaining to lapse into the General Reserve Fund. O n m o t i o n o f M r . W i e l a n d , t h i s fee w a s a u t h o r i z e d , a n d t h e a p p r o p r i a t i o n of r e c e i p t s w a s m a d e , b y t h e f o l l o w i n g v o t e : A y e , M r .

Cleary, Mr. Karraker, Mr. Mayer, Mr. Moschel, Mrs. Plumb, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Wieland; no, none; absent, Mr. Adams, Mrs. Freeman, Mr. Horner, Dr. Meyer.

FEE FOR POSTGRADUATE TRAINING IN VENEREAL DISEASES (28) The United States Public Health Service has offered the University, through the State Department of Public Health, a grant of $5,000 for one year to conduct postgraduate courses in venereal diseases. The State Department has made available $3,000 of this grant in cash, which will be used to pay honoraria to members of the staff (part-time and clinical), and will be supplemented by additional services and materials at an estimated value of $2,000. The Dean of the College of Medicine recommends that a registration fee of $10 be established for this postgraduate training course and that a rate of $20 an hour of teaching be established as honoraria for faculty members who give lectures and demonstrations. I recommend that the President of the University be authorized to approve this fee, if, after further study, it is found to be in line with fees charged for registration in comparable special courses for physicians and surgeons.

O11 motion of Mr. Wieland, this recommendation was adopted.

STUDENTS' MUTUAL BENEFIT HOSPITAL F U N D (29) The Students' Mutual Benefit Hospital Fund is a voluntary association for students and members of the faculty to provide hospitalization benefits. Contributing members to the Fund accept the form of organization whereby moneys are in charge of the Dean of Men as Trustee, and they agree to abide by all rules, regulations, and by-laws of the Fund. Members in the Fund pay a fee of $3.00 a semester and are entitled to ward hospital care for a period not to exceed four weeks in any one semester in the McKinley Students' Hospital of the University only, except in major surgical cases which cannot be adequately cared for in McKinley Hospital. T h e Fund further provides from any unexpended balances remaining at the end of any year, beyond an amount deemed necessary by the Trustee and the President of the University to meet possible emergencies in the coming semester, supplies and equipment for the McKinley Students' Hospital. No payment is made for the expense of a special nurse or for a physician's bill. Payment is made only if the beneficiary is in good health when he makes his contribution, and persons paying within the period of incubation of an infectious disease are not entitled to the benefits of the Fund. T h e Trustee of the Fund has recommended that he be authorized to sell a class of memberships at $5.00 a semester beginning in February, 1939, which will cover not only hospitalization expenses but also a part of the medical and surgical fees. T h e present $3.00 memberships covering only hospital expenses will be retained. I have approved the recommendation and request confirmation of this action.

On motion of Mr. Moschel, this action was confirmed.

LETTERS T O THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (30) During previous regular sessions of the General Assembly it has been the practice of the President of the University to send members of the Legislature a series of letters presenting information which is more or less fundamental to the consideration of the University's budget.

On motion of Mr. Cleary, the sending of these letters was authorized.