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them now defunct. Credit has been allowed to former students of even the worst of the Chicago night schools.
Teaching staff: The school has a faculty of 71, of whom 37 are professors. There are no full-time teachers, though some of the scientific branches are taught by full-time teachers of Valparaiso University, who come to the Chicago department on certain days weekly.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $45,430 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: The equipment throughout is ordinary, the usual laboratories being provided. There are few teaching accessories.
Clinical facilities: Clinical facilities are inadequate, being limited in the main to an adjoining hospital of 75 beds, of which one-fourth can be used for teaching, and to the Cook County Hospital, on the staff of which the school has two representatives.
The dispensary has a fair attendance and is in some respects well organized.
Date of visit: April, 1909.
(5) Bennett Medical College. Organized 1868, and up to 1909 an eclectic School. A stock company, practically owned by the dean of the school: "there are enough others to legalize the thing."
Entrance requirement: Nominal compliance with the Illinois law on the subject. A pre-medical department,—Jefferson Park Academy,—recruited by solicitors, has been organized by way of feeding the medical school. A vigorous advertising and soliciting system is operated.
Attendance: 181; about one-half from Illinois.
Teaching staff: 42, of whom 21 are professors.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $19,380 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: The school building is in wretched condition. One badly kept room is devoted to anatomy; it contained a few cadavers as dry as leather; another, in similar condition, is given to chemistry. There is slight provision for pathology and bacteriology; equipment for physiology is sufficent only for simple demonstrations. There are no teaching accessories worthy of mention.
Clinical facilities: These comprise a pay hospital of 45 beds, in which it is claimed that 20 are made available for teaching use by means of free medical (not hospital) services; and two places on the Cook County Hospital staff. The clinical facilities are utterly inadequate.
There is a small dispensary.
