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220 medical education, can make an effective contribution thereto except by coöperation with the Chicago schools. Should the state seek to develop its own school in Chicago with the inevitable low tuition fees, great friction must result. Much preferable to conflict would be the withdrawal of the state from participation in clinical instruction altogether, content in that event with a half-school at Urbana, strengthened, be it hoped, by state laboratories of public health. The entire situation presents a rare opportunity for educational statesmanship.

Population, 2,808,115. Number of physicians, 5,036. Ratio, 1: 558.

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BLOOMINGTON–INDIANAPOLIS: (Population: Bloomington, 8,902; Indianapolis, 249,426).

(1) . Started at Bloomington, 1903, it first gave two years' work at Bloomington, 1903, and the entire course at Indianapolis, 1909, through absorption of the local school. The double department is an organic part of the state university.

Entrance requirement: One year of college work.

Attendance: 266, 94 per cent from Indiana.

Teaching staff: 175, of whom 99 are professors. The laboratory branches at Bloomington are taught by full-time teachers, some of whom will for a while divide their time between Indianapolis and Bloomington. The Indianapolis teachers are otherwise all practitioners.

Resources available for maintenance: Both departments will be hereafter supported out of the general funds of the university, as the Bloomington department has hitherto been,—at a heavy loss, of course. Fees (amounting at Indianapolis and Bloomington together to $31,240) are paid into the university treasury.

Laboratory facilities: At Bloomington separate laboratories with good equipment are provided for pathology and bacteriology, physiology and pharmacology, and anatomy,—the last-named strong in histology and neurology. Embryology is taught in the department of biology, physiological chemistry in the department of chemistry. Books and periodicals are accessible.

At Indianapolis the laboratories of the absorbed school were limited, but the university has already taken some steps to bring them up to the level of the Bloomington department.

Clinical facilities: Clinical instruction will be given at Indianapolis alone. The city dispensary is under control of the school faculty and has just been placed in charge