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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 27

surgery, under the direction of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery of the University. In the activities of the psychiatric division of this Institute the Department plans to enlist the cooperation of other medical schools in Chicago in addition to that of the University. It is agreed that in the operation of this division the University shall provide one professor of psychiatry who shall act as Director, together with at least one secretary and three residents and such other scientific staff as may be agreed upon by the Department and the University. T h e Department agrees to provide compensation, through the budget of the Illinois Research and Educational Hospitals, of the remaining personnel, and the equipment and operation of the research and educational activities of the psychiatric division of the Institute. T h e Department shall provide equipment and maintenance of the division, together with the maintenance of the patients and the resident personnel. In the operation of the division of neurology and neurological surgery of this Institute, it is agreed that appointment and compensation of the medical and scientific staff shall devolve on the University as described above in the first sentence of Section 2. The Department shall provide equipment and maintenance of the division, together with the maintenance of the patients and resident personnel. Patients for admission to the Neuropsychiatric Institute shall be selected by the University from any available source, including, with the approval of the Department, patients committed to the State Hospitals under the control of the Department. T h e Department, on request of the Director of the Institute, shall arrange for transfer of patients in both directions between the Institute and the State Hospitals.

On vote, this amendment was approved, and authority was given the President and the Secretary of the Board as recommended. Mrs. Plumb moved that the Board approve another amendment of the contract with the Department of Public Welfare executed by the Board of Trustees on March n , 1932, substantially to the following effect:

T h e University will be hereafter responsible for the management, control, operation, and maintenance of all buildings used by any constituent unit, provided the Department will reimburse the University for such expense incurred on buildings constructed by the Department, based on an annual budget previously approved by the Department and the University. F o r such services as are provided from the power plant the University shall share the cost of power plant operations on the basis of the fair value of the services rendered. All buildings hereafter erected by the Department for any constituent unit shall be constructed and equipped at the expense of the Department.

On vote, this motion was passed, and the President and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute in writing an acceptance of such an amendment and to propose the same to the Department of Public Welfare for acceptance.

DISABILITY OF P. H. HICKEY (38) A report and recommendation from the Committee on Accident Compensation for Employees in the case of P . H . Hickey, Laborer in the Grounds Division of the Physical Plant Department. Mr. Hickey was in the active service of the University from July 7, 1916, to July 31, 1939, the date of his accident. H e has been on leave without pay since September 13, 1939. On July 31, 1939, Mr. Hickey was assisting a truck driver in spreading tarvia from barrels on the truck. T h e truck bed overbalanced throwing the occupants to the pavement. Mr. Hickey suffered a fractured vertebra, contusion of the spine, and leg injuries. H e was confined in the hospital and was in a cast for nine weeks, and it appears very likely that he is permanently disabled. The Committee makes the following recommendations for compensation to Mr. Hiekey: (1) payments corresponding with the provisions of the Workmen's