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medical department of the University of Georgia. The department could immediately adopt the general entrance requirements of the university, to be enforced by the university authorities. The faculty should, of course, be reconstructed and governed without restriction on university lines. The city's growth ensures a fair clinic and probably material aid.
Illinois
Population, 5,717,229. Number of physicians, 9744. Ratio 1:586.
Number of medical schools, 14, plus 4 postgraduate schools.
CHICAGO: Population, 2,282,927.
(1) Rush Medical College. A divided school. Since 1900 the instruction of the first and second years has been given wholly at the University of Chicago, of which it is an integral part; the third and fourth year given at the Cook County, the Presbyterian, and the Children's Memorial Hospitals and in the laboratory buildings adjoining them, are merely affiliated with the university. Pedagogically, the two branches do not form an organic whole.
Entrance requirment: Two years of college work, strictly enforced, though a considerable part of the entering class is conditioned in part of the scientific requirement.
Attendance: 488.
Teaching staff: 89 professors and 141 of other grade: total 230. The laboratory work is in charge of men devoting their entire time to teaching and research.
Resources available for maintenance: The instruction provided by the university is paid for out of the university funds and costs annually $45,738; the clinical division, carried by student fees and by contributions, costs $36,714: a total cost of $82,452. The total income in fees is $60,485.
Laboratory facilities: The laboratory branches are most liberally provided for on the university grounds; the laboratories are complete in number and equipment, each manned by a full staff, all the members of which are engaged in investigation as well as in teaching. There is considerable difference of opinion among those engaged in teaching the scientific subjects as to how far the presentation should be deliberately medical in aim.
Clinical facilities: Clinical facilities are provided by the Presbyterian Hospital, the staff of which is the faculty of the Rush Medical School, by the Cook County Hospital, and by other connections. The Presbyterian Hospital is an important adjunct, though thus far it is not by any means a genuine teaching hospital. It contains about 150 beds available for instruction. The Cook County Hospital will
