325 ILCS 60/1

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)

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.