Entrance requirement: Nominal.
Attendance: 66.
Teaching staff: 20, of whom 14 are professors and 6 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $5655 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: The school occupies a building which, in respect to filthy conditions, has few equals, but no superiors, among medical schools. Its anatomy room, containing a single cadaver, is indescribably foul; its chemical "laboratory" is composed of old tables and a few bottles, without water, drain, lockers, or reagents; the pathological and histological "laboratory" contains a few dirty slides and three ordinary microscopes.
Clinical facilities: The school is practically without clinical facilities. Its outfit in obstetrics is limited to a tattered manikin.
Nothing more disgraceful calling itself a medical school can be found anywhere.
Date of visit: February, 1909.
(4) Hospital Medical College. Eclectic. Organized 1908. This institution occupies the rear of a private infirmary. Started in 1908 "on four weeks' notice" by seceders from the Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery (see (3) above), it graduated 17 doctors at the close of its first year.
Entrance requirement: Nominal.
Attendance: 43.
Teaching staff: 16, all of whom are professors.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $3950 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: In the matter of equipment, it i g impossible to say what belongs to the school and what to the infirmary. At any rate, there is only one laboratory with any equipment worthy the name,—that of pathology and bacteriology.
Clinical facilities: The clinical facilities comprise the infirmary above mentioned, containing 16 beds. It is, of course, a pay infirmary.
Date of visit: February, 1909.
AUGUSTA: Population 45,582.
(5) Medical College of Georgia. Organized in 1828, it has been since 1873 nominally the medical department of the state university; but it is entirely controlled by its own separate board, and "no liability for its debts or expenses shall be incurred by the university."[1] The institution is therefore in effect a proprietary school.
- ↑ Agreement between Medical College of Georgia and University of Georgia, article 4.
