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Rh Attendance: 40.

Teaching staff: 20.

Date of visit: November, 1909.

KIRKSVILLE: Population, 8422.

(5) . Established 1892 and owned by two individuals.

Entrance requirement: Less than a common school education. Attendance: 560 (ranging in age from 18 to 54 years).

Teaching staff: 12 with 11 student assistants.

Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $89,600 (estimated).

Clinical facilities: A hospital of 55 beds adjoins, but its work is practically all "surgery;" the ward cases are "occasionally used for clinics. Students witness operations." Obstetrical work is comparatively scanty. There is no other hospital in the town.

A large dispensary is operated. An instructor is at hand the first time the student administers a "treatment; after that, "only if summoned." A course of twenty lectures on the fallacies of medicine is given, so that the graduate will know why he does not use "drugs."