Clinical facilities: Its present facilities for offering the instruction of the last two years are, for a university department on a two-year college basis, distinctly meager. It enjoys at the County Hospital the same facilities as the local College of Physicians and Surgeons, i.e., access to 100 beds, two or three days weekly being devoted to clinics for the senior class. Additional opportunities, depending on the personal connections of members of the faculty, are usually of slight pedagogic value. The school has an excellent dispensary building, fairly equipped in certain respects, but indifferently conducted, though the attendance is good. It is also in close proximity to a good medical library. The clinical teachers are all local practitioners. The state university will incur no expense on account of this department for two years at least.
Date of visit: May, 1909.
(8) California Medical College. Eclectic. Organized at Oakland in 1879, this school has led a roving and precarious existence in the meanwhile.
Entrance requirement: Nominal.
Attendance: 9, of whom 7 are from California.
Teaching staff: 27, of whom 26 are professors.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $1060 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: The school occupies a few neglected rooms on the second floor of a fifty-foot frame building. Its so-called equipment is dirty and disorderly beyond description. Its outfit in anatomy consists of a small box of bones and the dried-up filthy fragments of a single cadaver. A few bottles of reagents constitute the chemical laboratory. A cold and rusty incubator, a single microscope, and a few unlabeled wet specimens, etc., form the so-called "equipment" for pathology and bacteriology.
Clinical facilities: There is no dispensary and no access to the County Hospital.
The school is a disgrace to the state whose laws permit its existence.
Date of visit: May, 1909.
(4) Los Angeles College of Osteopathy. Emigrated from Iowa in 1905. A stock company.
Entrance requirement: Less than an ordinary grammar school education, with conditions. Many of the students are men and women of advanced years.
Attendance: Began two years ago with 60, now claims "more than 250."
Teaching staff: 19. All the teachers are practitioners.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, the annual income being about $37,500
