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Rh either facilities or ideals, but to endeavor themselves to get hold of a sufficient body of students to meet the demand on an enforceable basis, to improve their facilities so that this number can be well trained, and to urge the legislature to make their standard the practice standard of their respective states. Under more favorable circumstances, a decade hence, the state can and should ask more. But just now it is more important to develop the medical department of the state university at the high school level than to push it higher, leaving the training of southern physicians to schools without ideals or resources.

Population, 3,491,397. Number of physicians, 6323. Ratio 1: 552.

Number of medical schools, 12 (plus 1 postgraduate school).

COLUMBIA: Population, 7302.

(1) . A two-year school. Organized 1872. An organic department of the university.

Entrance requirement: One year of college work.

Attendance: 47, all from Missouri.

Teaching staff: 14, 8 being professors, 6 of other grade.

Resources available for maintenance: The department I shares the general income of the university. Its budget calls for $31,000; fees amount to $2,820.

Laboratory facilities: The medical department occupies a new and well equipped building, excellently adapted to its purposes. The teaching is in charge of full-time instructors of modern training and ideals. A university hospital of 45 beds gives the department the advantage of clinical material and connection, even though the actual instruction is limited to the work of the first two years, a feature of great importance. There is a library, supplied with important current periodicals, domestic and foreign.

Date of visit: April, 1909.

KANSAS CITY: Population, 205,022 (plus Kansas City, Kan., 81,052).

(2) . Organized 1881. independent institution.

Entrance requirement: Less than a high school education.

Attendance: 174, 82 per cent from Missouri and Kansas.

Teaching staff: 65, 30 being professors, 35 of other grade. There is one full-time teacher.