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CANADA
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Teaching staff: 20, of whom 8 are professors, 12 of other grade. Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $11,590 (estimated). Laboratory facilities: These consist of a single room called the laboratory of pathology, bacteriology, and histology, whose equipment consists of microscopes and some unlabeled specimens, — no microtome, cut sections, incubator, or sterilizer being visible,—a wretched chemical laboratory, and an ordinary dissecting-room. There is no outfit for physiology, pharmacology, or clinical microscopy, and no museum deserving the name. There are a few hundred books, locked in cases to which the janitor carries the key. Clinical facilities: These are entirely inadequate. They are confined almost wholly to

 a small number of beds in the municipal hospital. 
   The school has no dispensary. 

Date ofvisit: October, 1909.

TORONTO: Population, 328,911. (5) University Of Toronto Faculty Of Medicine. Established 1887. An organic department of the university. Entrance requirement: The Junior Matriculation Examination, strictly enforced. The course covers five years. Attendance: 592. Teaching staff: 68, of whom 27 are professors, 41 of other grade. Ten professors with fifteen assistants give their entire time to teaching and research. Resources availablefor maintenance:The department is supported out of the general funds of the university, its cost being considerably in excess of fees received. The latter amount to $64,500. Laboratory facilities: The laboratories are in point of construction and equipment among the best on the continent. Increasing attention has recently been devoted to the cultivation of research. There are both general and departmental libraries, an excellent museum, and all necessary teaching accessories. Clinical facilities: The school has recently perfected a very intimate relationship with the new Toronto General Hospital, by which its faculty obtains complete control of the clinical advantages of some 500 beds. Students have free access to all wards, clinical laboratory, dispensary,etc. Other large local hospitals—general and special —are also available. Date ofvisit: March, 1909.