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Rh (2). Organized 1898. An independent school.

Entrance requirement: Less than a common school education.

Attendance: 115.

Teaching staff: 15, of whom 13 are professors.

Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $17,250 (estimated).

Laboratory facilities: These are mainly limited to signs. "Anatomy" is painted prominently on a door which, on being opened, reveals an amphitheater; "Physiology" on a door which, on being opened, reveals a class-room with an almost empty bookcase, but no laboratory equipment; the key to "Histology" could not be found; "Chemistry" proved to be a disorderly elementary laboratory with some slight outfit for bacteriology besides. The dissecting-room was inadequate and disorderly.

Clinical facilities: The school makes no pretense of having hospital facilities. The catalogue states: "Cases"—pay cases of course—"needing hospital service are placed in the hospitals of the city," where the students cannot see them. The catalogue says of the infirmary: "The patient in no way comes in contact with the college clinic."

Everything about the school indicates that it is a business. One is therefore not surprised to find the following advertisement in the local newspaper: "Have your case diagnosed at Still College of Osteopathy, 1442 Locust Street." (Des Moines Register and Leader, Nov. 3, 1909.)

Date of visit: April, 1909.

IOWA CITY: Popolation, 9007.

(3) . Organized 1869. An organic department of the state university.

Entrance requirement: One year of college work.

Attendance: 267, 87 per cent from Iowa.

Teaching staff: 32, of whom 12 are professors. The laboratory instructors devote full time to their work; the clinical teachers are practitioners, some of them nonresident: the professor of surgery resides at Sioux City, the professor of gynecology, who is likewise dean of the department, at Dubuque.

Resources available for maintenance: The department is supported by state appropriations. Its income from fees is $13,707; its budget, $35,216; the university hospital budget is $33,745. Chemistry, general expense (light, heat, etc.), and a share of expense of general administration are not included in these figures.

Laboratory facilities: The equipment and instruction in the scientific branches are,