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Population, 6,945,228. Number of physicians, 6736. Ratio, 1:1030.

Number of medical schools, 8.

WINNIPEG: Population, 150,000.

(1) . Organized 1888. The medical department of the University of Manioba the connection being in process of becoming organic.

Entrance requirement: The University Matriculation Examination or its actual equivalent. The medical course covers five years.

Attendance: 115.

Teaching staff: 41, of whom 22 are professors, 19 of other grade.

Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $14,000.

Laboratory facilities: Instruction in chemistry, bacteriology, histology, and pathology is competenfiy given by the University of Manitoba. Other branches are carried on by the medical faculty. The equipment is adequate to routine instruction, new, and steadily increasing. There is a beautifully kept collection of several hundred wet specimens. Appearances indicate a conscientious and intelligent employment of such resources as the school has had.

Clincal facilities: The excellent Winnipeg General Hospital of 400 beds adjoins the school. The school faculty is practically the staff of the free wards. The relation between school and hospital is admirable. Students work freely in wards, clinical laboratory, operating-rooms, obstetrical ward, etc.

There is a good dispensary.

Date of visit: May, 1909.

HALIFAX : Population, 45,000 (estimated).

(2) . Organized in 1867. An independent school with a peculiar relationship to Dalhousie University, which provides satisfactorily instruction in chemistry, physics, and biology, during part of the first two years of the five-year course. In respect to all else the medical school is an independent institution, though its students are practically all examined for their degree by Dalhousie University. The university thus furnishes part of the first two years' teaching and is the final examining body; with the intervening years it has nothing to do.