Resources available for maintenance: The school shares the general funds of Washington University. Its fee income is $21,000; its budget (1909–10) $51,265, (not including $30,000 spent on the University Hospital). Productive endowments to the extent of $1,500,000 will become available in 1910–11.
Laboratory facilities: These have hitherto sufficed for only routine work in the fundamental branches, but the reorganization on productive modern lines, already under way, will shortly be completely effected. The museum, though small, is good; a start towards a modern medical library has been made.
Clinical facilities: The school has its own hospital of 98 beds, one-fourth of them free; and has access to other hospitals on the usual footing. The amount of material thus available was fair; but the close affiliation which has been made with the trustees of the Barnes and the Children's Hospitals revolutionizes the clinical situation of the school.
The school controls two dispensaries,—one connected with the University Hospital, the other situated in the medical school building. Their combined attendance is very large.
Date of visit: April, 1909.
(8) St. Louis University. The school, organized 1901 by merger, was in 1903 purchased for cash by the university, of which it is now an organic part.
Entrance requirement: Less than a high school education.
Attendance: 243, 42 per cent from Missouri.
Teaching staff: 121, 39 being professors, 82 of other grade. There are six full-time instructors with competent helpers; but the assistants are as a rule students.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $26,630 (estimated), supplemented by small allotment from the university treasury. During a period of seven years (1903–10), the university devoted $40,817 to its medical school. $20,000 have been recently subscribed towards an endowment fund for the department.
Laboratory facilities: Excellent teaching laboratories are provided for all the fundamental branches, in addition to which provision has been made for research in several directions.
Clinical facilities: The school has a small hospital of its own (12-16 free beds), and has access on the usual terms to several other institutions. The material, while fair in amount, is scattered and under imperfect control. The hospitals used are not organized, equipped, or conducted with a view to the requirements of modern medical teaching.
The dispensary is fair.
Date of visit: April, 1909.
