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The moneys belonging to the funds of the association not required 

 for immediate use are invested by the managers in United States bonds, 

 Maryland State and municipal bonds, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bonds 

 or obligations, or other first-class securities. All securities and the 

 moneys necessary to meet current expenses are intrusted to the official 

 custody of the Treasurer of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 

 to be held subject to requisition of the committee of management. 



The managers are chosen partly by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 

 Company, on account of its interest in the fund, and partly by the con- 

 tributors to it ; the company choosing four and the contributors five 

 the majority of those selected. . 



Any differences arising between claimants for the benefits set forth 

 in the constitution and the committee of management are submitted 

 to arbitration. 



The condition of the fund is annually investigated and reported on 

 by a proper and competent person, to be selected by the managers for 

 that purpose, and any surplus remaining at the end of each year is de- 

 voted to the reduction of the rates of contributions of members, or in 

 such other manner disposed of as in the judgment of the committee 

 will best subserve the interests of the association. 



The association utilizes, under judicious contracts, those hospitals 

 located, and those physicians and surgeons residing, along the com- 

 pany's lines, and this service has been economical and agreeable to its 

 members. While it is responsible for surgical expenses only in cases 

 of injury arising from the discharge of duty, its members have the ad- 

 vantage of reduced prices obtained under its contracts when they are 

 otherwise disabled or sick. There are besides, as a part of the staff of 

 the society, a corps of salaried physicians designated as medical in- 

 spectors, to each of whom is assigned territorial limits, which they are 

 constantly traversing, investigating cases of disability, methods of 

 treatment, the sanitary condition of the lines, etc. It is also their duty 

 to afford prompt relief to sufferers from casualties of travel, whether 

 they be members of the association or other employes, or passengers ; 

 to examine applicants for admission to the company's service as to 

 physical qualifications, and to exercise a rigid censorship over the sani- 

 tary conditions of grounds, buildings, coaches, baggage, etc. 



The rigid sanitary supervision exercised by the association through 

 its medical inspectors over every portion of the line enables it to check 

 and control many disorders before they have assumed grave propor- 

 tions. Thus, some years ago, when small-pox was prevalent at many 

 points tapped by the Baltimore and Ohio system, over twelve thousand 

 employes (and in dangerous localities their immediate families) were 

 vaccinated by the medical inspectors at association expense, and, though 

 many employes were greatly exposed to contagion, less than a dozen 

 were affected, and but two died from the disease. It is somewhat re- 

 markable that nearly eighty-five per cent were successful vaccinations 



