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194 teaching; seventy-odd beds are thus available, part of these being temporarily supported by the city. The hospital is now under temporary control of Cooper Medical College until needed by the university. Its organization at present, from the teaching point of view, is seriously defective. Records are meager; no surgical rounds are made in the wards; obstetrical work exists only in the form of an out-patient department; post-mortems are scarce. No hospital report is obtainable. The catalogue statement that the hospital is a teaching'hospital is hardly sustained by the facts.

The dispensary in the college building adjoining had in 1907 an attendance of 20,000, including both old and new cases. But the material, though adequate in amount, was not thoroughly used by the Cooper Medical College.

Date of visit: May, 1909.

(9) Established 1896. An independent school.

Entrance requirement: "High school education or equivalent."

Attendance: 70.

Teaching staff: 53, 23 being professors. There are no fall-time teachers.

Resources available for maintenance: The institution has no resources but fees, amounting to $7715 (estimated).

Laboratory facilities: The school has no laboratories worthy the name.

Clinical facilities: There are no adequate clinical or dispensary facilities.

Date of visit: May, 1909.

(10) Established 1881. Homeopathic. An independent school.

Entrance requirement: "High school graduation or equivalent."

Attendance: 23

Teaching staff: 35, 13 being professors, none of them fulltime teachers.

Resources available for maintenance: The institution has practically no resources but fees, amounting to $2685 (estimated).

Laboratory facilities: The school occupies a small, well kept building containing the usual dissecting-room, a laboratory for elementary chemistry, one fairly equipped laboratory in common for histology, bacteriology, and pathology, and a small orderly library.

Clinical facilities: Several neatly kept but inadequately equipped rooms are set aside for a dispensary; the attendance is fair, the records meager. The main clinical