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CLEVELAND: Population, 522,475.

(4) Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. Organized 1849. An independent institution.

Entrance requirement: A four-year high. school education or its equivalent.

Attendance: 46.

Teaching staff: 61, of whom 30 are professors, 31 of other grade.

Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $5750.

Laboratory facilities: These comprise a good laboratory for physiology, in which vigorous teaching was in progress. In other subjects—chemistry, anatomy, pathology, and bacteriology—the provision is only fair. There are several cases of old medical books in the office.

Clinical facilities: These are limited to the City Hospital,—a large institution three miles distant, in which one-fifth of the material is assigned to this school. Adjoining the school building is a homeopathic hospital, with which the school was once intimately connected; they have now drifted apart.

Several rooms in the basement and on the first floor of the college building are used for a dispensary. Their equipment is poor; no complete or lasting records are kept.

Date of visit: December, 1909.

(5) Western Reserve University Medical Department. Organized 1843; in 1881 joined Western Reserve University, of which it is now an organic part.

Entrance requirement: Three years of college work.

Attendance: 98, of whom 70 per cent are from Ohio.

Teaching staff: 100, of whom 18 are professors, 82 of other grade. The laboratories are, with the exception of anatomy, manned with teachers giving their entire time to the school.

Resources available for maintenance: The department has endowments aggregating $784,865. Its income from fees is $11,000. Its budget calls for $63,000.

Laboratory facilities: Excellent laboratories, in which teaching and research are both vigorously prosecuted, are provided for all the fundamental scientific branches. A special endowment carries the department of experimental medicine. Books, museum, and other teaching accessories, all in abundance, are at hand.

Clinical facilities: From the faculty of the school is appointed the staff of Lakeside Hospital, an endowed institution of 215 available beds, thoroughly modern in construction and equipment. The school has erected a clinical laboratory on the premises, so that close correlation of bedside and laboratory work is easily attainable. The relation of the two institutions has progressively become more intimate,