Attendance: 439.
Teaching staff: 75, of whom 17 are professors. The laboratory branches are in charge of five men, who give their entire time to teaching and investigation.
Resources available for maintenance: Endowment funds, aggregating about $900,000, yield an income of $26,000 annually; fees amount to $67,500. The budget of the department amounts to $101,781.
Laboratory facilities: New and excellent laboratories are provided for the work of the first and second years. The professors in charge represent modern ideals, and are enthusiastically engaged in reconstructing the entire school on progressive lines. The anatomical museum is one of the best in the country. The library is small.
Clinical facilities: The school enjoys unusual privileges and opportunities in the Charity Hospital, an institution of 1050 beds. Recently an additional ward for surgery and gynecology has been added, full control of the services being vested in the Tulane faculty by the terms of the gift. The abundant material is freely used by the medical faculty, though certain defects of organization, equipment, and relationship must be corrected in order to render the situation ideal. The main point, however, is secure, for the position of the medical school in the hospital is ensured through legislative enactment. The professorship in medicine has recently been filled by importation without any friction whatsoever.
The dispensary service is adequate.
Postgraduate instruction in specialties is offered by the New Orleans Polyclinic, affiliated with the Tulane University.
(2) Flint Medical College (Colored). Organized in 1889, it is a department of New Orleans University, which is managed by the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North.
Attendance: 24.
Teaching staff: 15, of whom 6 are professors. All are practitioners.
Resources available for maintenance: Tuition fees, $1300 (estimated), and small appropriations voted by the Freedman's Aid Society constitute the income. The entire budget, including that of the hospital adjoining, is less than $10,000 annually.
Laboratorty facilities: There is scant equipment in anatomy, chemistry, pathology, and bacteriology. The rooms are in poor condition.
Clinical facilities: The school controls a hospital of 20 beds, with an average of 17 patients monthly, and a dispensary with an average daily attendance of one or two.
Date of visit: January, 1909.
