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238 Clinical facilities: The college faculty own and conduct a hospital within a few blocks. It is essentially a private institution, of no great value to students. Less than 50 beds are free.

The dispensary claims a fair attendance.

Date of visit: March, 1909.

(7) . Organized 1891 as an independent homeopathic institution. Having "passed through many vicissitudes," it is now non-sectarian.

Entrance requirement: Nominal.

Attendance: 43, of whom 31 are in the senior class, 1 in the freshman class. Of 21 graduates, class of 1908, almost all had failed at other schools or before the regular state board before entering the Atlantic Medical College, on graduation from which they could appear before the Homeopathic State Board of Maryland, "reputed to be a much easier board to pass."

Teaching staff: 47, of whom 12 are professors, 35 of other grade. Two members of the teaching staff were graduated in the class of 1908, above mentioned, after having failed before the regular state board; a third instructor, also a graduate of 1908, entered this school after failure at the local College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $3905 (estimated).

Laboratory facilities: The school occupies a filthy building, in which are to be found an elementary chemical laboratory, a small room assigned to pathology, bacteriology, and histology, equipment being scant and dirty, an ordinary dissecting-room, a lecture-room with half a skeleton, a small amount of imperfect physiological apparatus with a few frogs, and a few cases of books, mostly old and useless.

Clinical facilities: These are claimed at a small private hospital several miles off. They can at best be hardly more than nominal.

The basement of the college building is used for a dispensary.

Date of visit: March, 1909.

are seven medical schools in Maryland, a state whose population increases slowly and in which there are between two and three times as many physicians as it now requires. Of these seven schools, two belong to the worst type of American medical school, viz., the Atlantic Medical College and the Maryland Medical College. That such unconscionable concerns should at this day continue to flourish is a blot upon the state of Maryland and the city of Baltimore.

Two more of the seven schools, the Baltimore Medical College and the Woman's