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MEDICAL EDUCATION
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $7500.
Laboratory facilities: A new building has just been provided; it contains an ordinary laboratory for elementary inorganic chemistry and a good dissecting-room. Separate laboratories, as yet meagerly equipped, are set aside for histology, pathology, and bacteriology. There is a small museum and a small collection of books, but practically no other teaching accessories. The course of instruction is not graded.
Clinical facilities: The school adjoins the Seton Hospital, with which it is affiliated. This institution has 60 beds, of which not over 24 are usable,—those mostly surgical. Little medical material is accessible. The teaching is carried on mainly in the amphitheater.
Sophomores are required to attend public clinics at the city hospital (never given by eclectic teachers), but the school does not know whether they attend or not.
A dispensary with a small attendance is connected with the hospital.
Dates of visits: December, 1909; April, 1910.
(8) Pulte Mecial College. Homeopathic. Established 1872. An independent institution.
Entrance requirement: A four-year high school education or its equivalent.
Attendance: 16.
Teaching staff: 36, of whom 24 are professors, 12 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $1325 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: Anything more woe-begone than the laboratories of this institution would be difficult to imagine. The dissecting-room is a dark apartment in the basement, in which (December 14) the year's dissecting had not yet begun; but the teaching of anatomy was not therefore halted. A disorderly room with a small amount of morbid material and equipment is known as the pathological and bacteriological laboratory. The chemical laboratory contains a few desks, with reagent bottles, mostly empty. There are a few old books in the faculty-room. No charts, museum, models, or other teaching accessories are to be seen.
Clinical facilities: There was formerly a hospital in the same building, but it is now closed. The school claims to hold clinics at certain private institutions, in which, however, he work is mainly surgical and the cases not free. Except by attending amphitheater clinics at the city hospital, it is not clear that the Pulte students can regularly see any hospital medical cases at all.
There is an inexpressibly bad dispensary in the school building.
Date of visit: December, 1909.
