Abstract
<h3>ILLINOIS.</h3><h3>Diphtheria.</h3> —Several deaths are reported to have occurred at Marquette, a village near Spring Valley.—Schools at Gilman have been closed on account of the prevalence of the disease. <h3>Heavy February Mortality and Morbidity.</h3> —Deaths in Springfield numbered 96 for February, 60 more than for the corresponding month of last year. In February, 1903, there were 12 cases of scarlet fever, with no deaths; in February, 1904, 51 cases and 2 deaths; there were 5 cases of diphtheria and 2 deaths last month, and in the same month of 1903, 9 cases and one death; of smallpox 4 cases and one death were reported in February, 1903, while in February, 1904, only one case was reported. <h3>Chicago.</h3><h3>Personal.</h3> —Drs. Herman A. White and G. Morgan Clarke have returned from Europe.—Dr. Lucy Waite has returned from Tahiti. <h3>Assistant Superintendent Johnston Dies.</h3> —Colonel William James Johnston, a confederate veteran, and for many
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