an additional negro ward of 22 beds in a pavilion close by. There is no clinical laboratory. Clinical opportunities are obtained at two other institutions, but no infectious diseases and little obstetrical work are obtainable. The clinical opportunities are thus decidedly inadequate.
A dispensary is just beginning.
Date of visit: November, 1909.
(2) Southwestern University Medical College. Organized 1903. Nominally the medical department of Southwestern University, which is protected by contract against liability for its debts.
Entrance requirement: Nominally a three-year high school course or its equivalent.
Attendance: 68.
Teaching staff: 32, of whom 17 are professors, 15 of other grade. All are practitioners.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees only, amounting to $7150 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: The school possesses a new building, externally attractive but wretchedly kept. It contains a disorderly and incomplete chemical laboratory, a small amount of new physiological apparatus, a single laboratory fairly well equipped for pathology and bacteriology, and an ordinary dissecting-room. There is a "reading-room" with nothing to read. The lecture-rooms are bare, except for chairs; in a corner of one of them is an abused manikin.
Clinical facilities: Amphitheater clinics in surgery are held once weekly at an institution across the street, where perhaps 50 beds, mostly surgical, are accessible, and one afternoon a week at the City Hospital, one and a half miles distant. No infectious diseases are obtainable. Neither hospital contains a clinical laboratory.
Clinical opportunities are therefore decidedly inadequate.
A dispensary is just starting.
Date of visit: November, 1909.
FORT WORTH: Population 27,096.[1]
(3) Fort Worth University Medical Department. Organized 1895. A nominal department of a local "university."
Entrance requirement: Nominally a three-year high school course or its equivalent.
Attendance: 100.
Teaching staff: 47, of whom 14 are professors, 33 of other grade. All are practitioners.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees only, amounting to $10,500 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: These comprise a dissecting-room, ordinary laboratories for
- ↑ Not estimated by U.S. Census Bureau.
