Clinical facilities: None. It was stated by a student that twice between October 1 and January 8 "a few students were taken to the Knoxville College Hospital."
There is no dispensary.
The catalogue of this school is a tissue of misrepresentations from cover to cover.
Date of visit : January, 1909.
MEMPHIS: Population, 140,145.
(4) College of Physicians and Surgeons. Organized 1906. A stock company, now calling itself the medical department of the University of Memphis, a fictitious affair.
Entrance requirement: None. "Accept students and try them out."
Attendance: 77.
Teaching staff: 47, of whom 22 are professors, 25 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $7400 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: The school occupies an excellent building, recently erected, fees being largely consumed in helping to pay for it. The dissecting-room is of modern design, consisting of small rooms with hot and cold water; but the work was conducted on antiquated lines, cadavers being in wretched condition. The chemical laboratory is good and quite adequate to instruction in elementary chemistry. Equipment for pathology and bacteriology is less than fair; for physiology, practically nothing. There are few books, no museum, charts, etc.
Clinical facilities: The schedule shows seven one-hour clinics (5 in surgery, 2 in medicine) per week at the City Hospital during one-half of the school year. At the date of the visit, perhaps 40 beds were thus accessible. Students "look on" at the obstetrical cases.
A suite of rooms in the college building is set aside for a dispensary.
Date of visit : November, 1909.
(5) Memphis Hospital Medical College. Organized 1880. A stock company.
Entrance requirement: Nominal.
Attendance: 442.
Teaching staff: 35, of whom 12 are professors, 23 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $34,600 (estimated). The condition of the school laboratories shows what becomes of this sum.
Laboratory facilities: The school occupies an excellent building, heavily mortgaged. It is new and well kept. The chemical laboratory is good and adequate to elementary chemistry. An excellent room is assigned to dissecting, but the cadavers
