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Des Moines.
Penn ....
780
Fireman
H. H. Lewis.
Des Moines.
Kentucky
780
Fireman
M. P. Wickersham O. K. Olesen.
Des Moines. . .
Ohio .
780
Janitor
F. J. Alber
Des Moines.
Germany.
720
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H. Goldberg
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Russia .
720
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John P. Stevenson(
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Penn ..
720
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C. Vennerstrom.
Des Moines. .
Sweden.
720
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John Lewis .
Des Moines.
Indiana.
720
Janitor
Owen Byrne.
Des Moines.
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Iowa .
720
Janitor
J. M. Russell
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Ohio
720
Janitor
J. B. Shackelford.
Hazleton
Indiana
720
Elevator tender
James Murphy
Des Moines.
Penn ..
780
Janitress
Ellen Billings
Des Moines
Indiana
600
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
EX OFFICIO MEMBERS.
HON. ALBERT B. CUMMINS, Governor of the State.
A. B. STORMS, President of the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Ames.
HERBERT R. WRIGHT, State Dairy Commissioner.
PAUL O. KOTO, Forest City, State Veterinarian.
OFFICERS.
President .- W. W. MORROW, Afton.
Vice-President .- C. E. CAMERON, Alta. Secretary. - J. C. SIMPSON, Des Moines. Assistant Secretary. - GARTH C. FULLER, Des Moines.
Treasurer. - G. D. ELLYSON, Des Moines,
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Janitor
Des Moines.
Norway
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DIRECTORS.
First Congressional District .- R. S. Johnston, Columbus Junction. Second Congressional District .- C. W. Phillips, Maquoketa. Third Congressional District. - W. C. Brown, Clarion. Fourth Congressional District. - R. T. St. John, Riceville. Fifth Congressional District. - S. B. Packard, Marshalltown. Sixth Congressional District. - T. C. Legoe, What Cheer. Seventh Congressional District. - M. J. Wragg, Waukee. Eighth Congressional District. - John Ledgerwood, Leon. Ninth Congressional District. - M. McDonald, Bayard.
Tenth Congressional District. - O. A. Olson, Forest City. Eleventh Congressional District .- H. L. Pike, Whiting.
Directors serve for a period of two years. The terms of directors from the odd numbered districts expire December, 1905, and the terms of directers from the even numbered districts expire December, 1906.
Officers are elected for a term of one year.
Annual convention second Wednesday in December each year.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
OFFICERS.
President, H. MATTHEY, Davenport.
Secretary, J. F. KENNEDY, Des Moines.
CHAS. W. MULLAN, Attorney-General, ex officio, Des Moines.
PAUL O. KOTO, State Veterinary Surgeon, ex officio, Forest City.
CHARLES FRANCIS, Civil Engineer, Davenport.
Terms expire.
HENRY MATTHEY, Davenport (Regular). January 31, 1906
ROBERT E. CONNIFF, Sioux City (Regular) January 31, 1907
FRED W. POWERS, Waterloo (Regular) January 31, 1908 J. H. SAMS, Clarion (Regular) . January 31, 1909
A. M. LINN, Des Moines (Homeopathic) . January 31, 1910
A. P. HANCHETT, Council Bluffs (Homeopathic) January 31, 1911
BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY.
Located at Iowa City in connection with the State University.
PROF. H. ALBERT, M. D., Director.
MR. PAUL SHEKWANA, Bacteriologist.
PROF. C. N. KINNEY, Drake University, Des Moines, Chemist to the Board.
Regular meetings of the board, first Wednesday of January, April, July and October.
STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS.
President, R. E. CONNIFF, Sioux City.
Secretary and Treasurer, J. F. KENNEDY, Des Moines. Members, The physicians of the State Board of Health,
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Examinations held two weeks preceding the meetings of the Board of Health.
Correspondence relating to practice of medicine or osteopathy should be sent to the secretary of this board.
Every person practicing medicine or osteopathy in the State is required to procure a certificate from this board.
Every physician or osteopath itinerating within the State is required to pro- cure a special license.
The board is authorized to issue two classes of certificates:
First, to physicians, under sections 2576 and 2582 of the Code, and second, to Osteopaths, under chapter 158, laws Twenty-ninth General Assembly.
There is no provision in the law for issuing permits to practice midwifery.
BACTERIOLOGICAL NOTES.
For a number of years, the State Board of Health has urged the establish- ment of a State Bacteriological Laboratory, to be placed at the disposal of the physicians of this State and to aid them in the diagnosis and the determination of the period of quarantine of a number of infectious diseases. A bill provid- ing for such was considered by the Twenty-ninth General Assembly but failed to be passed by that body. The last General Assembly ( Thirtieth) again con- sidered the subject and passed a bill ( House file No. 455) introduced by Repre- sentative Frudden of Dubuque. This bill establishes the Board of Health Bac- teriological Laboratory at the State University at Iowa City, the professor of the latter to be the director of the former. It appropriates one thousand dol- lars ($1,000) for apparatus and provides for five thousand dollars ($5, 000) to be used biennially for the maintenance of the laboratory.
The scope of the work of the laboratory is limited at present to the routine diagnostic work in connection with diphtheria, typhoid fever, tuberculosis and rabies, it being understood that the examinations are made only in the interest of the public health. The bacteriological and chemical analysis of the public water supplies, a problem of very great importance, can not properly be under- taken at the present time except when the public health is eminently con- cerned, as in epidemics of typhoid fever. At such occasions it is the duty of the director of the laboratory to have such bacteriological and chemical exam- inations of the water supply, milk supply, etc., made, and such other investi - gations conducted as shall tend to lead to a discovery of the source of the epi- demic, whenever he is requested to do so by the council of the city or town concerned. Such examinations will be made only when the director or some one whom he may designate visits the place of the epidemic, personally makes all necessary investigations and collects his own samples of water, and such other substances as he may choose. Such investigations and examinations are free of charge, but all the expenses of the visit are borne by the community for which the examination is made. In case of epidemic of diphtheria or whenever it is desired to examine the throats of a large number of school children, the local Board of Health has the privilege of calling upon the director of the lab- oratory for a bacteriologist to assist in making examinations.
In order that the work of the laboratory may be as efficient and far-reach ing as possible, one or more "Culture stations" are being established in every
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city and town of the State. These stations which are readily accessible to all physicians, will constantly keep diphtheria, typhoid and tuberculosis diagnosis outfits on hand and will supply them free of charge to all physicians whenever they desire to make use of them. The material when collected is sent to the laboratory for analysis. All examinations are made free of charge to physi- cians.
The laboratory is now in good working order and many specimens for diagnosis and for release from quarantine are being examined daily. The work of the laboratory deals at the present time, principally with those dis- eases which are most intimately concerned with the physical welfare of our people. Other problems of scarcely less importance can not be undertaken at the present time on account of lack of funds.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The birth, marriage and death constitute the most important events in the life of any human being. So important are these data that there is not a civi- lized nation that does not in some way seek to obtain and preserve such personal records. Most of the European countries as well as Canada, Mexico and several of the United States have reached a high degree of perfection in the art and practice of collecting and tabulating vital statistics.
The value of such statistics is not alone because of their great importance as a means of identification in the settlement of estates ; the determining of the marital and parental relations of parties and for purposes of enumeration, but they are especially valuable from a sanitary standpoint. It is important to know the relation of births to marriages; the relation of deaths to births; the death-rate at given periods of life and in different localities and from different specified causes and at given seasons. Where all these facts are collected, tabu- lated, published and preserved important practical deductions may be drawn from them provided the registration has been complete and reliable.
Iowa has entered upon her third experiment as a registration State. In 1880 when the State Board of Health was created provision was made for a registra- tion of births, marriages and deaths. So far as the registration of marriages is concerned there has been no change in the law. All marriages are reported to the county clerk, recorded by him in permanent registers and on or before the 30th of June each year reported to the State Board of Health on blanks furn- ished by said Board. These reports as well as those of births and deaths are bound in book form and kept on file in the Historical Building. They are, at least, approximately correct though a number of the clerks in reporting to the State Board of Health have failed to fill in many of the blanks and thus have lessened their value.
Under the first law births and deaths were to be reported within thirty days after their occurrence, by physicians, midwives or other parties officially or professionally connected with such birth or death, to the county clerk of the county in which they occurred, and later, with the marriages, reported by said clerks to the State Board of Health. Through the opposition and indif- ference as well as downright refusal of physicians to do their duty under the law the results obtained were so unsatisfactory and unreliable that the legis. lature repealed that provision of the law requiring physicians to report births
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and deaths and required the county auditor through the county assessors to collect these data when they made their annual assessments. The data thus collected by the assessors were reported to the county clerks and by them to the State Board of Health as under the former law. The blanks to be used were prescribed by the State Board of Health and furnished by the county. After about six or eight years experimenting along this line it was clearly demon- strated that the returns were much less reliable, as to numbers and complete- ness, than those under the old law.
The Thirtieth General Assembly, therefore, amended the law so as to relieve county auditors, clerks and assessors from any obligation or respon- sibility in connection with reporting births and deaths; and believing that the medical profession had a better conception of theimportance of such statistics and a keener appreciation of the honorable relation they sustain to the State it was enacted that the chief responsibility for a reliable registration of births and deaths should rest upon the physician and the undertaker.
Chapter 100, laws Thirtieth General Assembly, makes the health officer of every incorporated town or city and the clerk of every township a registrar, and provides for the appointment of assistants. It requires the Secretary of State to furnish these registrars with blanks, etc., as prescribed by the State Board of Health and to certify to the respective county supervisors the amounts due the registrars and sub-registrars at the rate of twenty-five cents for each birth and death properly reported to the Secretary of the State Board of Health. It makes it unlawful for any undertaker, sexton or any other person to inter or remove a dead body without first obtaining from the registrar or sub-registrar of the town or township where the death occurred a burial or removal permit, and for a registrar to issue such burial or removal permit without first having filed with him by the undertaker a certificate of death in due form.
Hence, the undertaker or sexton is the chief agent in reporting the death. In reporting births the physician or midwife is held responsible, or in the absence of either the parents of the child.
Under this new law there will be a great improvement over the former ones. If undertakers and physicians will promptly and faithfully perform their duty the registration secured thereby will be approximately correct. The registrars will be glad to report promptly all certificates of birth and death filed with them. There are some defects in the law that can readily be corrected-especially should there be some provision for the final disposition of these reports and a requirement that each county should have a record, in permanent and convenient form, of all of its own births, marriages and deaths as well as the record with the State Board of Health.
EDUCATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINERS.
MEMBERS.
JOHN F. RIGGS, Superintendent Public Instruction, President, ex officio. GEORGE E. MACLEAN, President State University, ex officio.
HOMER H. SEERLEY, President State Normal School, ex officio.
O. J. MCMANUS, Superintendent Pottawattamie County. Term expires November 26, 1906.
MISS MARIA M. ROBERTS, Ames, Iowa. Term expires February 14, 1909,
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Composition. - Three members of the board are members by reason of their official position, and two, one of whom shall be a woman, are appointed by the Governor for a term of four years.
Meetings. - The board has fixed the first Tuesday in May and the Saturday following Thanksgiving as dates for the regular meetings of the board. Special meetings may be called by the president.
Examinations. - The board holds annually two examinations as provided by law. Special examinations are given when ten or more candidates file their applications, fees, and a request for an examination at some designated place. Examinations for diplomas are given at the regular meeting following Thanks- giving.
Licenses Issued By the Board. - The board is authorized to issue diplomas, valid for the life of the holder; State certificates; State primary certificates ; special certificates in music, penmanship and drawing, all of which are valid for a term of five years and two-year certificates.
Fees .- The fee for a diploma is five dollars, for a two-year certificate two dollars and for all other kinds three dollars. In each class one-half the fee is refunded in case of failure.
Accredited Schools .- The board of examiners constitutes a board for the inspection, recognition and supervision of schools desiring State recognition. Only graduates of prescribed courses of such approved schools are eligible to be admitted to the examination for the two-year State certificates.
COMMISSION OF PHARMACY.
Terms Expire.
President, FLETCHER HOWARD, * Des Moines April 23, 1905. Vice President, FRED RUSSELL, Rockwell City April 23, 1906.
B. F. KELTZ, Webster City April 23, 1907. Secretary, CHARLES W. PHILLIPS, Jackson county; postoffice, Des Moines.
Members of the board are appointed for a term of three years, one member each year. Every person who shall desire to conduct the business of selling at retail, compounding or dispensing drugs, etc., for medical use, must first be examined by said board and their names registered in a book kept by the board for that purpose, showing also his residence, together with the date of issuing certificate.
Fee for examination and certificate, $5.
Graduates of recognized schools of pharmacy may be registered without examination. Fee for registration and certificate, without examination, $2.
The following law relates to itinerant vendor's license:
SEC. 2594. Itinerant vendors of drugs-Any itinerant vendor of any drug, nostrum, ointment, or appliance of any kind for the treatment of any disease or injury, and all those who by any method publicly profess to treat or cure diseases, injury or deformity, shall pay to the treasurer of the commission of
* Governor Cummins has appointed J. S. Goss of Atlantic, Cass county, to succeed Mr. Howard on April 23, 1905.
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pharmacy an annual fee of $100, upon the receipt of which the secretary of the commission shall issue a license fo ยท one year from its date. Two thousand dol- lars annually of the money arising from the license fund, or so much as may be needed, shall be devoted to defraying the expenses of the commission, and any balance remaining shall be paid into the State treasury. Said commission shall, on the first day of January of each year, make a verified and itemized state- ment in writing to the Auditor of State, of all receipts and expenditures of money coming into their hands by virtue of their office. Any violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor, and any person shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not less than $100, nor more than $200. In actions or prosecutions under this chapter, it need not be proven that the defendant has not a license, but such fact shall be a matter of defense.
IOWA STATE LIBRARY.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES (EX OFFICIO).
HON. ALBERT B. CUMMINS, Governor, President of Board. HON. W. B. MARTIN, Secretary of State.
HON. JOHN F. RIGGS, Superintendent of Public Instruction.
HON. JOHN C. SHERWIN
HON. EMLIN MCCLAIN
HON. SILAS M. WEAVER
Judges of the Supreme Court.
HON. SCOTT M. LADD
HON. CHARLES A. BISHOP
HON. HORACE E. DEEMER
JOHNSON BRIGHAM, State Librarian.
The accession list of the State Library on the first day of July, 1904, included 83, 336 volumes, exclusive of the volumes of the Historical Department with which the miscellaneous portion of the State Library was consolidated by act of the Twenty-eighth General Assembly. The total accessions during the year ending June 30, 1904, were 3, 707 volumes.
The consolidation of the miscellaneous portion of the State Library with the Historical Department, ordered by the General Assembly and carried out as far as the Library Board deemed it advisable to go, now awaits the comple. tion of the new building, the east wing of which will be wholly given over to the Library. Until the prospective change is made, the present temporizing policy in the shelving of books must continue, but it is our constant endeavor to reduce to a minimum the inconvenience of such policy.
While the number of mere sightseers who have visited the Library during the past year may not be as great as in certain other years, yet the number of actual workers in the Library-students, club members, professional men and women and publicists generally-has been greater than ever before. The ability of the Library to meet the serious wants of these classes has been greatly increased by recent purchases of standard works.
The most considerable addition to the Library, during the past year, is a complete set of Hansard's Parliamentary History ard Debates, covering the political history of the British Empire from the year 1066 down to 1891 and in- cluding forty volumes of history and four hundred and eighteen volumes of
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debates,-a monumental work which has few duplicates in American Libraries. Another important addition is the completion of a broken set of The Annual Register, London, "A Review of History, Politics and Literature." By the addition of forty volumes this great work now covers the political and literary history of The British Empire from the year 1758 down to date.
The purchases in the Law and Document departments, have largely been toward the completion of broken sets-a work calling for constant vigilance and careful study of the book-catalogues of Great Britain including the colonies and the Dominion of Canada, and all portions of our own country.
The completion of several valuable sets of standard periodicals is one of the gratifying results of the past year's work, making the Library's Periodical Department one of the completest in America, though still lacking not a little of that measure of approximate completeness towards which we are pushing as fast as our means and the several other interests of the Library will warrant.
HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
HON. ALBERT B. CUMMINS, Governor of the State.
CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN C. SHERWIN.
JUDGE SCOTT M. LADD.
JUDGE EMLIN MCCLAIN.
JUDGE CHARLES A. BISHOP.
JUDGE S. M. WEAVER. JUDGE H. E. DEEMER.
HON. W. B. MARTIN, Secretary of State.
HON. JOHN F. RIGGS, Superintendent of Public Instruction. CHARLES ALDRICH, A. M., Curator.
As now organized this department dates from the first day of July, 1892. Its chief purpose is the collection of historical data relating to our own State and the territory of the middle west of which it originally formed a part. So far as literature is concerned special efforts are made to collect Iowa newspapers from the earliest dates to the present time; works of State and general western and national history, biography and genealogy; works on the slavery question and the War for the Union; histories of all our wars from the earliest times ; reports upon the census of both State and Nation; works relating to the North Ameri- can Indians; county histories, early and later maps, Iowa pamphlets, biographies of our noted men and women, printed or in manuscript; written or printed documents relating to early settlers and settlements; reports, catalogues and broadsides relating to the churches, educational and benevolent institutions of the State; in short, every species of data which can throw light upon local, State or western history.
The department publishes The Annals of Iowa, an illustrated quarterly historical magazine of eighty pages, now in its seventh volume. This is made up of original contributions in history and biography. By direction of the trustees it is sent free to every organized library in our State. Its price to subscribers is $1 per year.
In addition to The Annals, the Historical department is to be credited with the following publications, viz: Six biennial reports; "John Brown Among the Quakers, and Other Sketches," (1st and 2d ed. ) by Hon. Irving B. Richman ; "First Census of the original Counties of Dubuque and Des Moines, " edited by
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Dr. Benj.F. Shambaugh ;"History of the Constitutions of Iowa," by Doctor Sham- baugh; reprints of the laws of Iowa, 1838-39 and of 1839-40, and the hitherto unpublished Journals of the Council and House of Representatives of the extra session of 1840.
The department has secured 65 fine oil portraits of distinguished Iowans, the most of which are now on exhibition in the art gallery of the historical build- ing. More are promised in the near future.
The library of the historical department on January 1, 1905, consisted of the following:
Bound volumes of newspapers 3,359
Newspapers and periodicals currently received. 401
Books and pamphlets in the library 12, 595
The collections include also a large number of maps, autograph letters and manuscripts.
The Museum includes seven large autograph cases; a collection of recent, aboriginal and prehistoric pottery-some of the most interesting specimens of which were found in our own State; a large collection of stone implements, among which is an Iowa axe weighing 3134 pounds-one of the largest ever dis. covered-with hundreds of flints; many teeth, tusks, and other bones of the mammoth and mastodon, all of which were found in Iowa ;two large cases of birds -mostly specimens found within our state; many Iowa mammals; four large aquariums stocked with a collection of Iowa fishes; a case of Indian baskets, bead work, implements and weapons, the most of which were manufactured by the Musquakie Indians of Tama county; a collection of arms-canon, mortars, swivel guns, rifles, muskets, carbines, swords and pistols, in use during the Civil, Spanish and Philippine wars; and duplicates in brorze of most of the his- toric medals issued by the U. S. Government.
At the last session of the legislature the sum of $200, 000 was appropriated for the completion of the Iowa Historical Building, and as these pages are going through the press (January, 1905), in spite of the inclemency of the season, work upon the structure is proceeding with a degree of rapidity which does great credit to the enterprising contractors. The quality of the work is of the high- est character. This building will occupy a full half block, with a frontage upon Grand Avenue, of 260 feet. The material of which it is constructed is the well known Le Grand (Iowa) stone, so noted for its hardness and for preserving un- tarnished its color of pure white. It is expected that it will be one of the most imposing and beautiful edifices in the State.
The Historical Department was called upon for a contribution to the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, in response to which there were forwarded seventeen portraits in oils, fourteen maps of early Iowa and the Middle West, and a selec- tion from its publications and collections of original manuscripts. These items were placed on exhibition in the fire-proof buildings in the division of anthro- pology, under the direction of Prof. W. J. McGee, the distinguished collaborator of the late Maj. J. W. Powell in the Bureau of American Ethnology. The Jury of History recommended for the State of Iowa, for this exhibit, the Grand Prize, and a bronze medal for the largest prehistoric stone axe hitherto found in this country; for the Curator a gold medal, and for Prof. C. A. Cumming, the artist who superintended its transmission and arrangement at St. Louis, a silver medal. The usual diplomas accompanied these awards.
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