Resources available for maintenance: Income almost wholly from fees, amounting to $28,861.
Laboratory facilities: Chemistry is well cared for in the university laboratories. The equipment in anatomy, physiology, pathology, including clinical microscopy and bacteriology, is adequate for instruction; the income of the school has been consistently and intelligently used to develop these departments. They are all in charge of full-time teachers, each provided with a competent helper. There is a good library, in charge of a librarian, but no museum.
Clinical facilities: Clinical facilities have not yet been put on the same modern basis as the laboratory branches. They are insufficient in respect to both extent and control. The school relies mainly on two local hospitals of about 150 beds, providing ward and bedside work in general medicine, surgery, and pediatrics, surgery predominating. The hospitals do not contain a working clinical laboratory for students. Supplementary opportunities are provided by several other institutions in the usual manner. The work in obstetrics is not sufficient.
Students attend the city dispensary, which is, from an educational point of view, of doubtful value. It has an attendance of 10,000; but the records, though systematic, are so brief that the experience would hardly conduce to thorough and careful habits. The head clinical professors have apparently been indifferent to it.
Date of visit: October, 1909.
Postgraduate Schools
(1) Brooklyn Postgraduate Medical School. Established 1907.
Entrance requirement: The M.D. degree.
Attendance: Students are scarce; four or five may be in attendance at any one time.
Teaching staff: 52, of whom 19 are professors, 33 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees.
Laboratory facilities: None.
Clinical facilities: The school offers graduate courses mainly in the Williamsburg Hospital, most of the cases in which are surgical. The hospital itself is wretched and has no teaching facilities worth mentioning. It is even without a clinical laboratory. The existence of the school is a reproach to the state. It now operates on a limited charter from the state department of education, and is enabled to continue because it is aided by the city. It deserved no charter in the first place, and it deserves no recognition from the city now.
Date of visit: January, 1910.
(2) New York Postgraduate School. Established 1881.
