Teaching staff: 44, of whom 30 are professors.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $3360 (estimated).
Labaratory facilities:: The equipment is very meager.
Clinical facilities: These are very limited. Students are not admitted to the adjoining hospital. There is a small dispensary.
Date of visit: April, 1909
(18) Hahnemann Medical College. Homeopathic. Organized 1859. An independent institution.
Entrance requirement: "High school or equivalent."
Attendance: 130.
Teaching staff: 84, of whom 38 are professors.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $14,300 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: The school occupies a building wretchedly dirty, excepting only the single laboratory, fairly equipped, devoted to pathology and bacteriology. The equipment covers in a meager way also anatomy, physiology, histology, chemistry.
Clinical facilities: In the adjoining hospital there are accommodations in the wards for 60 beds, but there are no ward clinics. The superintendent is a layman who "does not believe in admitting students to the wards. There is no regular way for them to see common acute diseases," as only amphitheater clinics are held. Hospital internes do all the obstetrical work; students "look on." The school also holds two appointments on the surgical side in the Cook County Hospital.
There is a fair dispensary.
Date of visit: April, 1909
(14) Littlejohn College of Osteopathy. An undisguised commercial enterprise.
Entrance requirement: Nominal.
Attendance: 75.
Teaching staff: 43.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, and income from patients.
Laboratory facilities: Practically none. At the time of the visit, some rebuilding was in progress, in consequence of which even such laboratories as are claimed were, except that of elementary chemistry, entirely out of commission and likely to remain so for months: but "teaching goes on all the same." Class-rooms were practically bare, except for chairs and a table.
Clinical facilities: The Littlejohn Hospital,—a pay institution of 20 beds, mostly sur-
