Clinical facilities: The school, in virtue of a subscription, holds four weekly clinics at a colored hospital of 35 beds; other hospital connections are unimportant. Obstetrical cases are rare.
There is a poor dispensary, with a small attendance, in the school building. It occupies a fair suite of rooms.
Date of visit: February, 1909.
WAKE FOREST: Population, 900.
(3) Wake Forest College School of Medicine. A half-school. Organized 1902. An integral part of Wake Forest College.
Entrance requirement: Two years of college work, actually enforced, but resting upon the irregular secondary school education characteristic of the section.
Attendance: 53.
Teaching staff: 6 whole-time instructors take part in the work of the department; two of them devote their entire time to medical instruction.
Resources available for maintenance: The budget is part of the college budget. Fees amount to $2225.
Laboratory facilities: The laboratories of this little school are, as far as they go, models in their way. Everything about them indicates intelligence and earnestness. The dissecting-room is clean and odorless, the bodies undergoing dissection being cared for in the most approved modern manner. Separate laboratories, properly equipped, are provided for ordinary undergraduate work in bacteriology, pathology, and histology, and the instructor has a private laboratory besides. Chemistry is taught in the well equipped college laboratory; physiology is slight; there is no pharmacology. There is a small museum; animals, charts, and books are provided.
Date of visit: February, 1909.
RALEIGH: Population, 20,533.
(4) Leonard Medical School. Colored. Organized 1882. An integral part of Shaw University.
Entrance requirement: Less than four-year high school education.
Attendance: 125.
Teaching staff: 9, of whom 8 are professors, one of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: Mainly fees and contributions, amounting to $4721, practically all of which is paid to the practitioner teachers.
Laboratory facilities: These comprise a clean and exceedingly well kept dissecting-room, a slight chemical laboratory, and a still slighter equipment for pathology.
