chemistry and bacteriology, and a single laboratory with routine outfit for pathology and histology; recent provision on a small scale has been made for physiology. The class-rooms are bare except for a reflectoscope and a defective skeleton. There are a small museum of unlabeled specimens and a small library.
Clinical facilities: The basement of the school building makes a wretched hospital of 50 beds, 20 of them free. There is no clinical laboratory. One surgical clinic weekly is held at a private hospital two miles distant.
For the dispensary a fair attendance is claimed, but no complete index is kept.
Date of visit: November, 1909.
GALVESTON: Population, 37,834.
(4) University of Texas, Department of Medicine. Organized 1891. An organic department of the state university.
Entrance requirement: A four-year high school education, passed on by the state university.
Attendance: 206.
Teaching staff: 26, of whom 9 are professors, 17 of other grade. Three professors and seven instructors give entire time to the department. All instructors are on salary.
Resources available for maintenance: The department is carried by the general funds of the university. Its budget calls for $63,342, of which $6500 are derived from fees; the hospital budget requires $39,611 besides.
Laboratory facilities: The school has a complete series of admirable teaching laboratories, covering anatomy, physics, chemistry, physical chemistry, pathology, bacteriology, histology, and embryology. There is a large pathological museum, beautifully kept, every specimen classified, labeled, and indexed; and a notable anatomical museum in which special preparations are most advantageously arranged for teaching use. The library is good and is in regular receipt of foreign and domestic journals; animals in abundance are on hand. Competent helpers are provided for each floor. No effort, however, is made in the direction of research.
Clinical facilities: A university hospital of 155 beds adjoins the laboratories. Its organization is along sound lines―the service with a single chief being continuous, but students have not as yet been actively utilized in the wards. As elevated standards improve the student body, this innovation will become more feasible.
For lack of assistants, the dispensary is not so thoroughly organized. The attendance is fair.
Date of visit: November, 1909.
