The Health District reports that communicable diseases such as Measles and Chickenpox are down significantly from the previous year.
Forty active TB cases are recorded in Champaign County.
Staff looking at chest X-ray.
Dr. L.L. Fatherree leaves the post of Health District director to become state health department director. Dr. Richard E. Dukes is made temporary medical director of the Health District.
Polio cases are down statewide. Illinois records 139, including 10 deaths. This is a dramatic decline from the 1956 outbreak that affected 2,000 people in Illinois (including 1,200 paralytic cases).
"The Public Health District is taking an interest in the new liners as an aid to controlling fly population in the community. Nearly 80 percent of the eggs laid by household flies are laid in garbage cans, according to Health District officials." - News Gazette, Sept. 25, 1960
The Health District recommends that commercial establishments use plastic garbage can liners.
Illinois Governor Kerner forces Dr. Fatherree to resign from the state health department. Dr. Fatherree returns to the Health District.
Illinois passes the first law making seatbelts mandatory in all new vehicles.
An equine encephalitis outbreak occurs in Illinois.
Measles vaccine is made available to babies, preschoolers, kindergartners and first-graders.
Dr. Madden and Phyllis Robeson of the Jr. Service League conduct school physicals.
Mandatory fluoridation of public water supplies begins in Illinois.
Venereal Disease is increasing in Champaign-Urbana. The Health District
reports 165 cases in the first half of the year, up from a total of 73 cases in 1962.
Nurse Quigley instructs other nurses.
Dr. Fatherree dies at his desk on June 15, 1970. Richard Grabher is named acting director of the Health District. He is later made director.
State law requires vision screening at first entry into school and at fifth and ninth grades.
The Health District conducts blood lead tests on children one to six years old.
Health officials report an increase in venereal disease and births to unwed mothers.
Woman making presentation.
1,479 children receive dental exams at the Health District, an increase of 40 percent since 1967.
1999 - 2005 reports an 88 percent increase in gonorrhea in Champaign County.
After a spike in local measles cases, the Health District offers free measles vaccinations once a week.
The Lead Poisoning Prevention Act makes lead poisoning and elevated blood lead levels reportable and prohibits the use of lead paint in dwellings.
The Outlook Tuberculosis Sanatorium is closed. Its eight remaining patients are transferred to other hospitals.
Gale A. Fella is named Health District administrator, taking over from Richard Grabher, who resigns to become regional director of the state health department in Champaign
St. Louis encephalitis kills 47 and sickens nearly 600 in Illinois. Testing of birds and mosquitoes for the virus begins.
