of a man of modern training. The attendance has been good. The City Hospital staff is appointed by the board of health on nomination of the university. The facilities are fair, but they have been used to little advantage in the past. There is no pavilion for contagious diseases.
Date of visit: December, 1909.
VALPARAISO: Population, 6280.
(2) Valparaiso University. This institution offers first two years at Valparaiso and all four in Chicago. (See Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery.) The two-year department was organized in 1901.
Entrance requirement: A high school course or its equivalent.
Attendance: 25.
Teaching staff: Two instructors conduct the classes in Physiology, pathology, bacteriology, and anatomy, in the medical building. Chemistry, materia medica, and pharmacy are taught by men who give courses in these same branches to other students. The pathologist spends one-third of his time in the Chicago department.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees only.
Laboratory facilities: There is a simple but good equipment for teaching the necessary branches m an elementary form, pathology being perhaps the weakest by reason of the small amount of gross material available. The time of the teachers is consumed in routine work.
Date of visit: December, 1909.
General Considerations
The situation in the state is, thanks to the intelligent attitude of the university, distinctly hopeful, though it will take time to work it out fully. The university has just secured complete control of the Indianapolis school. The state board has already come to its help by making the two-year college standard, in force a the university in 1910, the legal minimum for practice within he state. This places medical education in Indiana, as it already is in Minnesota, in the hands of the state university. The Bloomington department has been of such a character that it was easily possible to make it worthy of college-bred students, but the detachment of its teachers for regular service at Indianapolis should not long continue. While it is highly important that close relations be encouraged, it is necessary to accomplish this by progressively strengthening the Indianapolis end.
The Indianapolis school has been of the ordinary local type of the better sort. In order to make the school attractive to highly qualified students, it will be necessary (1) to employ full-time men in the work of the first two years, (2) to strengthen
