or urine work, and do not always own their own text-books. They use quiz-compends instead.
There is no dispensary.
This is a typical example of the schools that claim to exist for the sake of the poor boy and the back country.
Date of visit : January, 1909.
KNOXVILLE: Population, 38,328.
(2) Tennessee Medical College. Organized 1889. A stock company; nominally the medical department of Lincoln Memorial University.
Entrance requirement: Nominal.
Attendance: 82, 70 per cent from Tennessee.
Teaching staff: 31, of whom 26 are professors, 5 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $4994.
Laboratory facilities: The school building is externally attractive; within, dirty. In the basement is a small laboratory for inorganic chemistry. A few microscopes, a microtome, and some sterilizing apparatus—no cultures or pathological specimens were visible—constitute the laboratory for pathology, bacteriology, and histology. The dissecting-room is ordinary; there are no books, museum, charts, etc.
Clinical facilities: The school adjoins a neat hospital, recently constructed, which proves, however, to be simply the private hospital of the faculty for which student fees help to pay. It has an average of 40 patients, with no free wards. Five clinics weekly are scheduled, but it is admitted that "they are not always held." Practically, students "are called" when a case happens along which the doctor can arrange to have them see. Obstetrical instruction is limited "to a few deliveries before the class."
There is no dispensary.
Date of visit : January, 1909.
(3) Knoxville Medical College. Colored. Established 1900. An independent institution.
Entrance requirement: Nominal.
Attendance: 23.
Teaching staff: 11, of whom 9 are professors.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $1020 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: None. The school occupies a floor above an undertaker's establishment
