(410 ILCS 440/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 22.1)
    Sec. 1. The Department of Public Health is authorized to acquire and distribute prophylactic medicines for the prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease for the use of registered medically indigent rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease patients, certified by their physicians as being in need of this medication.
(Source: Laws 1957, p. 2273.)