Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $19,447 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: Comprise very meager equipment for elementary chemistry, pharmacy, and anatomy―the dissecting-room in bad condition. The instructor in pathology and bacteriology has a fair private laboratory, to which students have no access; student work in those subjects is mostly confined to looking through the microscope at slides that he prepares. There is no museum, except old papier-mâché and wax models, no library, except some antiquated publications it is without other teaching aids.
Clinical facilities: The school has access to the Roper Hospital, an unusually attractive institution of about 200 beds a mile distant. There were 80 patients at the time of the visit. Complaint is made that it is difficult to induce graduates to serve as internes. Obstetrical work is rare.
There is no school or other organized dispensary.
Date of visit: February, 1909.
South Dakota
Population, 498,077. Number of physicians, 607. Ratio, 1: 821.
Number of medical schools, 1.
VERMILION: Population, 2183.
University of South Dakota College of Medicine. Organized 1907. A half-school. An organic department of the state university.
Entrance requirement: 2 years of college work.
Attendance: 7.
Teaching staff: 5 professors and 5 instructors, who take part in the work of the department.
Resources available for maintenance: The department shares in the general funds of the university. No separate budget is prepared. Fees amount to $660.
Laboratory facilities: The necessary equipment is at hand for painstaking routine instruction in the laboratory branches. A library and museum have been started.
Date of visit: November, 1909.
General Considations
The two Dakotas have taken time by the forelock: before any vested proprietary interest could be created, they have fixed the state practice requirement at two years of college work, thus fortifying the medical department of the state university. The state, though thinly settled, is prosperous, and no anxiety is felt that the high stan-
