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When the Department of Public Health was created by the Civil Administrative Code of 1917 it received all the powers and duties formerly vested in the Board of Health, except those relating to the regulation of the practices of medicine and embalming, which were assumed by the Department of Registration and Education. The responsibilities included investigations into causes of disease, especially epidemics; distribution of vaccines free of charge to the citizens of the state; and general supervision over sanitation practices, particularly in public water supplies, sewage systems, and state-operated institutions. The department also was responsible for maintaining chemical, bacteriological, and biological laboratories both for the diagnosis of disease and for the examination of milk, water, sewage, and waste. Also under the department's jurisdiction was the collection of vital statistics and continuance of the statewide system for the registration of births and deaths. The Department of Public Health's responsibilities have remained essentially unchanged since 1917. It was, however, given the authority in 1967 to enter into contracts and agreements with federal and other non-state public and private agencies that would benefit the health of the people of the state (L. 1967, p. 594).
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MEDICARE CERTIFICATION RECORDS. Ca. 1966-1970. 17 cu. ft. No index.
Records are of facilities that applied for certification to participate in Medicare programs. Files for each facility contain correspondence with representatives of the Medicare and licensure program and the Social Security Administration. Files also include applications for certification; certification and transmittal forms; survey reports made by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; lists of licensed staff members; descriptions of facility services; and reports of utilization committees. Files for facilities that withdrew from the Medicare program also include voluntary termination forms and correspondence requesting
decertification.
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POLIOMYELITIS FILES. 1918-1969. 15 cu. ft. No index.
Files on the control and treatment of polio include investigation cards on polio victims which list each patient's name, address, vital statistics, and medical history (including laboratory reports); case records and financial accounts from the 1949 polio epidemic in Centralia; statewide case records (1960-1969); statistics on polio cases, often tabulated by county; reports and studies done on polio outbreaks throughout Illinois; and correspondence on such matters as federal allocations for vaccine, plans for the distribution and exportation of vaccine, vaccination programs for children in state institutions, and hospital facilities for polio patients.
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RESEARCH FILES. Ca. 1961-1969. 3 cu. ft. No index.
Files include case reports, statistics, questionnaires, correspondence, pamphlets, and newsclippings relating to research conducted by the Automotive Crash Injury Research Project at Cornell University and a drowning study conducted by the Department of Public Health.
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INVESTIGATION AND ENGINEERING REPORTS. 1884; 1909; 1912-1967. 8.25 cu. ft. Partial index.
Reports include a description of the complaint, description of general considerations (e.g., community, population, complaint location, topography), description of conditions (e.g., odors, distribution of wastes, unsanitary conditions), and recommendations for improvements. Complaints concern such subjects as stream pollution, typhoid fever, flood conditions, dysentery, and sanitary conditions at nursing homes, youth and religious camps, schools, public camps, orphanages, and tuberculosis sanitariums. Also included are related blueprints, maps, drawings, photographs, statistical data, and correspondence.
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ADMINISTRATIVE RULES AND REGULATIONS DEVELOPMENT FILES. 1954-1989. 11.5 cu. ft. and 28 cassette tapes. Partial index.
Files used to develop departmental rules and regulations in order to carry out legislated functions include rules and regulations drafts; agency analyses of the economic, legislative, and regulatory impacts of proposed rulemaking; justification statements; and explanatory memoranda. Usually included are correspondence with interested parties, transcripts of public hearings, and copies of speeches, legal opinions, press releases, and newspaper articles.
Some of the rule and regulation subjects include AIDS, organ transplants, hospital licensing, nurses, physicians, communicable diseases, lead poisoning, sanitation, sexual assault victims, Alzheimer's disease, nursing homes, mental health, water well construction, infant mortality, asbestos abatement, blood banks, and the licensing of plumbers.
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY BILL ANALYSIS FILES. 1982-1989. 8 cu. ft. No index.
Files of analyses of pending legislation affecting the Department of Public Health include information on the rationale for the bill, prior legislative history, the anticipated impact on the department's operations as well as those of other state agencies, and the department's position on the bill in question. Also included are correspondence with interested parties and related inter-office memoranda, press releases, publications, and newspaper clippings.
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STATE HEALTH PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY GRANT ADMINISTRATION FILES. 1972-1986. 14 cu. ft. No index.
Files are of the Department of Public Health in its capacity as the State Health Planning and Development Agency whose function is to allocate and administer federal monies to regional health service areas within Illinois. Files include service area designation plans, proposals for area
redesignations, health service area plans, grant guides and regulations, grant applications, annual implementation plans, comprehensive reviews of service areas with copies of statements made at public hearings and cassette recordings of hearings, policy statements on health planning and resource development, and reports on statewide planning, distributions of grant funds, maternal and child health care, and nursing shortages. Also included are related memoranda and correspondence.
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HEALTH PLANNING ADMINISTRATIVE FILES. 1966-1984. 12 cu. ft. No index.
Files include minutes of meetings, reports, guidelines, position papers, correspondence, memoranda, publications, and news releases concerning health planning on federal, state, regional, and subregional levels. Topics include perinatal services, aging, social services, cost containment, environmental health, health care provider manpower, infant mortality, alcohol abuse, diabetes, and health care insurance. Also included are copies of grant applications submitted by regional health planning agencies to the department.
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SALMONELLA OUTBREAK STUDY FILES. 1984-1985. 2 cu. ft. No index.
Files concern two outbreaks of salmonella
typhimurium. The first began on August 7, 1984 and involved 200 confirmed cases in the northern portion of the state. The second commenced on March 29, 1985, covered Illinois and five other midwestern states, and included over 17,000 reported cases. Both outbreaks were traced to dairy products produced by the Hillfarm Dairy in Melrose Park, a supplier of the Jewel food store chain.
Files include hotline illness reports, statistical data, laboratory test results, the department's report on its handling of the outbreak to a General Assembly investigating committee (1985), procedures manuals, recommendations for procedure modifications, newspaper articles, news releases, and related correspondence.
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STAUFFER CHEMICAL PLANT FIRE STUDY FILES. 1978-1979. 1.25 cu. ft. and 1 microfilm roll. No index.
Files concern a study made of the health effects caused by a fire and explosion at the Stauffer Chemical Plant at Chicago Heights on August 18, 1978. This plant manufactured ethylopnitrophenyl phenylphosphonothioate
(EPN), exposure to which posed a possible health hazard to the firemen, policemen, newsmen, sanitation workers, bystanders, and employees at the scene as well as to residents in the vicinity. The Illinois Department of Public Health with assistance from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and the Center for Disease Control conducted a federally funded study to assess the danger.
Files include a copy of the federal grant application, maps of the plant area, drafts and final questionnaires, completed questionnaires, statistical summaries, copies of telephone interviews, individual medical records and analyses of the same, and interim and final health hazard evaluation and determination reports. Also included are staff working papers, newspaper clippings, press releases, and related memoranda and correspondence.
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VILLAGE OF GREENUP HEALTH SURVEYS. 1985. 9 cu. ft. No index.
Surveys of households were conducted in the village of Greenup to determine possible health hazards posed by a nearby toxic waste site. General household data include the residential address, names of residents, length of residency, type of home construction, kinds of spray products used, drinking water source, annual family income, types and percentages of food consumed, and any health problems observed in pet animals or area wildlife. Information on adults concern physical disorders or symptoms, medication used, marital status, ethnic background, height and weight, alcohol consumption, work history, and chemical exposures in the workplace and the neighborhood. Information on mothers concern pregnancy history, birth defects, birth control methods, tobacco used, alcohol consumed, and medications used. Information on children include the name, height, weight, sex, birthplace, school attendance, learning or behavioral problems, birth defects, physical disorders and symptoms, and medications used. Also included are copies of utility meter readings for all area residences.
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SEXUAL ASSAULT TREATMENT PLAN FILES. 1976-1988. 15.5 cu. ft. No index.
Files on hospitals and trauma centers statewide concern the care and treatment of sexual assault victims and the state's reimbursement for those services. Included are copies of institutional plans, plan certifications, and related correspondence. Occasionally included are draft plans, synopses of legislation, and departmental policy manuals, guidelines, and staff working papers.
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SPEECH FILES. 1934-1955. 1 cu. ft. No index.
Files include copies of speeches delivered principally by the department's directors at various seminars, conferences, and dedications. Topics include such subjects as department history, public health issues and policies, hospital development, tuberculosis, rehabilitation of war veterans, rural health, venereal diseases, scarlet fever, preventive medicine, nursing programs, milk supplies, cancer research, heart disease, intestinal diseases, and premarital health examinations.
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DEATH CERTIFICATES. 1916-1943. 1,049 microfilm reels. Index on 221 microfiche.
Certificates show county and city in which death took place; certificate number; address where death took place; sometimes the voting ward of that address; the deceased's full name, sex, marital status, birth date, age at death, occupation, employer, and city and state of birthplace; father's name and birthplace; mother's maiden name and birthplace; name of the informant providing the above information; the filing date; and the name of the registrar. Also included are the date of death; indication if an inquest was held; sometimes the duration of the causal condition and the type of secondary contributory cause; the coroner's signature, address, and telephone number; the date of the coroner's signature; sometimes the length of residence if at an institution and the place where the contributory disease was contracted if not at the place of death; the burial place and date; and the undertaker's name and address.
These records are available at the Illinois State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State.
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