are putrid. One laboratory, with slight equipment and little material, answers for all microscopic work. It is obvious that large classes have paid in considerable sums that have been used to pay for an expensive building, not to provide even fair teaching facilities. The course of instruction is not graded.
Clinical facilities: The schedule shows nine one-hour clinics a week at the City Hospital, where the available material is divided between the two schools. At the date of the visit, perhaps 40 beds were thus accessible to each. Students "look on" at the obstetrical cases. The course of instruction is not graded; the amount of material is absurdly inadequate for the huge classes.
There is a dispensary in the school building. Its equipment is slight; there are no systematic records. The amount of material cannot possibly suffice for the student body; and there is nothing to indicate effective use, as far as it goes.
Date of visit : November, 1909.
(6) University of West Tennessee, Medical Department. Colored. Organized 1900.
Entrance requirement: Nominal.
Attendance: 40.
Teaching staff: 14, all of whom are professors.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $2000 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: There is meager equipment for chemistry, pharmacy, and microscopy. Otherwise the rooms are bare.
Clinical facilities: The students have access to eight or ten beds, twice weekly, in a small hospital close by.
There is a dispensary, without records, in the school building.
Date of visit : November, 1909.
NASHVILLE: Population, 107,076.
(7) Vanderbilt University Medical Department. Established 1874. An organic department of the university.
Entrance requirement: Less than high school graduation, though a fair proportion of the students have had some college work.
Attendance: 200.
Teaching staff: 40, of whom 17 are professors, 23 of other grade. The dean of the school is the professor of chemistry in the academic department—an undesirable arrangement at a time when medical education is so rapidly changing form. No instructor devotes entire time to the medical department.
