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Rh from tuitions and a considerable sum from "treatments" (see below). As the instruction provided is inexpensive, the stock must be a very profitable investment.

Laboratory facilities: The school occupies a five-story building containing a chemical laboratory, with meager equipment and limited desk space, and a single laboratory for histology, pathology, and bacteriology. The dissecting-room contains five tables, but sufficient material. The rest of the building is mainly devoted to treatment rooms and the business office.

Clinical facilities: There is no free dispensary. Patients who are willing to undergo treatment before a class pay not less than $3 a month; patients who are treated in the presence of a single student pay $5. A hospital is now under construction.

The general aspect is that of a thriving business. An abundance of advertising matter, in which the profits of osteopathy are prominently set forth, is distributed.

Date of visit: May, 1909.

(5) . A stock company, established in 1896.

Entrance requirement: Ostensibly high school graduation; but "mature men and women who have been in business are given a chance and usually make good."

Attendance: 85.

Teaching staff: 38, 19 being professors.

Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $12,750 (estimated).

Laboratory facilities: The school has an ordinary chemical laboratory, a fairly equipped laboratory for pathology, histology, and bacteriology, with a private laboratory for the instructor in these branches adjoining, the usual dissecting room, and a limited amount of apparatus for experimental work in physiology.

Clinical facilities: A dispensary is carried on at the school, which also owns a hospital for obstetrical and surgical cases. The catalogue fails, however, to state that the students have no regular work in this hospital. They rarely see medical cases; "they don't have as much acute work as they should." Nevertheless, they are drilled to "treat gonorrhea by diet and antiseptics; syphilis with ointments and dietetics, and without mercury; typhoid, pneumonia, etc.," along the same lines.

Date of visit: May, 1909.

OAKLAND: Population, 73,812.

(6) . Established 1902 as a stock company, stock, partly subscribed by merchants of the town.