(325 ILCS 60/1) (from Ch. 23, par. 2201)
    Sec. 1. There is hereby authorized to be established a surgical institute in and for the State of Illinois for the surgical treatment of children under the age of sixteen years, suffering from physical deformities or injuries of a nature which will likely yield to surgical skill and treatment and which unless so treated will probably make such children, in whole or in part, in after life, public charges.
(Source: Laws 1919, p. 246.)