ment of faculty dividends; (2) to the application of current fee income to the discharge of building debts.
Clinical facilities: The school completely controls the adjoining hospital, of which some 210 beds, including a maternity ward, are available for teaching. Ward-teaching on the section plan is in use. The clinical laboratory is open to the students.
The dispensary occupies an excellent suite of rooms; the attendance is ample.
Date of visit: March, 1909.
(8) University of Maryland School of Medicine. Organized 1807. Essentially an independent institution with a university charter, though nominally the medical department of St. John's College (Annapolis).
Entrance requirement: Less than a high school education.
Attendance: 316.
Teaching staff: 61, of whom 24 are professors, 37 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $44,580 (estimated), out of which dividends are paid to the faculty and a large mortgage debt carried.
Laboratory fadlities: Good undergraduate laboratories adequate to routine teaching are provided in two poorly kept buildings for the following subjects: chemistry, physiology, including physiological chemistry and histology, pathology and bacteriology. Anatomy is poor. There is a small museum. In a separate building is a large and interesting library, but it is open only two hours each day.
Clinical facilities: The school controls its own hospital, opposite the laboratory buildings, about 140 beds being available for teaching. The hospital records are well kept, senior students who pay for the privilege serving as clinical assistants. A separate maternity ward furnishes obstetrical work in abundance.
The dispensary is large, properly equipped, and well kept.
Date of visit: March, 1909.
(4) Baltimore Medical College. Organized 1881. An independent institution.
Entrance requirement: Much less than a four-year high school education. Advanced standing is freely granted to failed students dropped fim other schools,
Attendance: 392.
Teaching staff: 63, of whom 20 are professors, 43 of other grade. There are no teachers giving entire time to medical instruction.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $33,424.
Laboratory facilities: The school possesses a new and very attractive laboratory
