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Rh the entire fee income is used to equip the laboratories, to employ full-time teachers in the fundamental branches, to fit out and organize a good dispensary, there will still remain defects and makeshifts enough; but the school will wear a different aspect than is presented by any institution in the state to-day.

Let it be said ungrudgingly that these suggestions are offered in no spirit of unkindness. The State University and Vanderbilt have had their hands full. They have worked valiantly amidst conditions that might well appal the strongest hearts. They deserve no blame for the past, provided only they unselfishly and vigorously coöperate in forgetting it. In the last few years right courses of action in medical education have for the first time been defined. A decade hence it will be fair to look back and ask whether the universities of the state have followed them.

Of the three negro schools in the state, two are without merit. The third—Meharry—is a most creditable institution. The reader is referred to chapter xiv, "The Medical Education of the Negro," for a fuller discussion of its needs and deserts.

Population, 3,780,574. Number of physicians, 5789. Ratio, 1:653.

Number of medical schools, 4.

DALLAS: Population, 56,119.

(1) . Organized 1900. Since 1903 the medical department of Baylor University.

Entrance requirement: Nominally a three-year high school course or its equivalent.

Attendance: 53. Teaching staff: 29, of whom 16 are professors, 13 of other grade. All the teachers are practitioners.

Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $7735 (estimated). The school has not thus far been assisted by the university.

Laboratory facilities: The school possesses a new laboratory adjoining the hospital to be noticed below; but at the date of the visit it was still quite bare. The dissecting-room was in good condition; a fair chemical laboratory and a meagerly equipped laboratory for pathology and bacteriology had been installed. There was nothing else, and no assurance of funds with which to provide additional laboratories or to maintain those already in part provided.

Clinical facilities: Adjoining the laboratory building is a new hospital of some 200 beds, in which the school has access to two free wards containing 32 beds, and to