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272 supplementary clinics of the usual kind. There is a small dispensary in the school building and an outside dispensary is also used. The clinical facilities are utterly inadequate in respect to both extent and control.

Date of visit: March, 1909.

(10) . Organized 1858. An independent institution.

Entrance requirement: Regents' Medical Student Certificate.

Attendance: 159, 88 per cent from New York.

Teaching staff: 65, of whom 31 are professors, 34 of other grade. The professors of chemistry, physiology, pathology, and bacteriology are full-time teachers.

Resources available for maintenance: The school and hospital budgets are combined. The institution has an endowment of $600,000, which carries a hospital of 125 free beds, dispensary with ambulance service, etc. Income from student fees amounts to $18,658.

Laboratory facilities: An attractive, well kept laboratory with models and bone-mounts is provided for anatomy; a single laboratory for chemistry; one, with a small museum, for pathology and histology; and others, with ordinary equipment, for bacteriology and physiology. There is a library of several thousand volumes.

Clinical facilities: Though the school possesses its own hospital, clinical teaching has not hitherto been so organized as to take the fullest advantage of it. The records are meager; the clinical laboratory inadequate. Improvements are, however, under way.

The dispensary enjoys a very large attendance.

Date of visit: December, 1909.

SYRACUSE: Population, 127,281.

(11) . Organized 1872. An integral department of the university.

Entrance requirement: A year's work in science in addition to the Regents' Medical Student Certificate. Credentials are passed upon by the academic authorities. Of the present class of 40, the first on the new basis, 20 had had a year or more of college work; the rest presented high school or preparatory school certificates in the required sciences.

Attendance: 151, 90 per cent from New York state.

Teaching staff: 57, of whom 15 are professors and 42 of other grade. The sciences are taught by full-time teachers.