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Rh the state medical school has become the practice preliminary of the state. In future, any person desiring to practise medicine in Minnesota must get as good an education – preliminary and professional — as the state furnishes and requires of its own sons : a regulation both fair and wise, whether viewed from the standpoint of the student or from the broader standpoint of public interest, to which all else is properly subordinate. Henceforth, the success of the school will depend largely on the generosity of the state in developing the clinical teaching, and on the character of the hospital and dispensary which it organizes with that in view.

Population, 1,786,773. Number of physicians, 2054. Ratio, 1: 887. Number of medical schools, 2.

MERIDIAN: Population, 22,415.

(1) . Organized 1906. A stock company.

Entrance requirement: Nominal.

Attendance: 100, 94 per cent from Mississippi.

Teaching staff: 19, of whom l2 are professor 7 of other grade.

Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $7500 (estimated).

Laboratory facilities: At the date of visit, there was no outfit at all. Subsequent reliable report credits the school with a vat containing four cadavers in a room without other contents, a simple outfit for elementary chemistry, and twenty brand new microscopes, but no material to use with them.

Clinical facilities: Practically none. Some of the faculty have places on the staff of a small hospital over a mile distant.

There is no dispensary.

Date of visit: January, 1909.

OXFORD-VICKSBURG: (Population: Oxford, 10S; ,Vicksburg, 16,800).

(2) A divided school. First half organized 1908; second half organized 1909. An organic part of the university.

Entrance requirement: A four-year high school education or its equivalent. Over one-half of this year's entering class had had two or more years of college work.

Attendance: 39.