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There is a good and growing dispensary service connected with Fordham Hospital.

Date of visit: October, 1909.

(8) New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. Homeopathic. Organized 1868. An independent School.

Entrance retirement: Regents' Medical Student Certificate, equivalent to a fouryear high school course. 2! ttendance: . Teaching staff: S5, P.3 being profesors it of other grade. No teacher devotes entire time to the school. Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting 'tO $555. Laboratonfacilities: Attractive and well kept laboratories are provided fo pathology, bacteriology, and histology together, chemistry dnd physiology and anatomy. The equipment is simple, but recent. There are a sin'all library, a number of anatomical charts, and some normal and pathological pr6parations. Autopsy material is reported as scarce. Clinical facilitigs: These consist of the hospital, occupying the same building and containing 5 available beds, most of the cases being surgical, and of the usual rotating services scattered among other hospitals, public and private. They do not include infectious diseases. Most of the first floor of the chool building is gin over to a dispensary. Zla of vit: Otobzr, 1909. (9) Eclectic Medical College. Organized 1865. An independent school. ! Entrance requirement: Regents' Medical Student Certificate. Attendance: 96, 85 per cent from New York state. Teachin taj: 5, 16 being professors, 9 of other grade. No one devotes full time to teaching. Resources available for maintenance: Mainly fees, amoU.nting to' $811. Laboratory faciJitie,: The chemical laboratory, adequa 'e for routine teaching, is active. Otherwise the facilitie are weak: one room is use',d for bacteriology, histology, pathology, and clinical microscopy; this with the di 'asecting-room completes the laboratory outfit. There is no museum; but the schol possesses a small collection of models, a materia medica cabinet, a stereopticon i and a fair-sized library, of which the books sa mostly not recent. Clinical facilites: There is no eclectic hospital. Twice .weekly three tudents spend their entire afternoon at the Sydenham Hospital (80 free beds). There are some