Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-07-14
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA.
The, Annual Report Makes n Fine
Showing for the Institution.

The, Annual Report Makes n Fine
Showing for the Institution.
The annual report of DIR. Christopher
Tompkins, dean of the faculty OF the
Medical College OF Virginia, was filed in
the Office OF the Superintendent OF Pub
lie Instruction yesterday. The report
shows the last session 10 have been the
most successful one in the history Of this
honored institution. and the comparative
figures given reveal a marvellous growth
IN the last few years. The following ex-
tract from the paper viii be Of public
interest:
MATRICULATES AND GRADUATES.
Matriculates-First course. 81: second
course, 50; third course, I; fourth course,
l. fifth course, /.
Post graduates, IA.
Graduates-Second course, &c; third
course, z; fourth course, !.
Total matriculates, 139. Total graduates.
81.
Comparative statement: Session 1892
'g3-Total matriculates, 70; total graduates,
q. Session 1S93-'9f-Total matriculates. &c;
total gradatcs, %. Session 1Sei-9j-Total
matriculates, 1879; total graduates, ST. -
The curriculum consists o. three-years'
graded course, and the student taking up
in his first year only the Elementary
branches, Is endDttl 10 concentrate MS
energies upon their study, thus laying a
solid foundation upon which his subse-
quent education may be adyantageously
constructed.
TEACHING CORPS.
Ten professors, fourteen adjunct pro-
fessors, one demonstratOr Of anatomy and
curator of museum one assistant demon
strator Of anatomy, one demonstrator OF
| chemistry, one clinlca. lecturer on ortho-
pedic surgery, one lecturer on diseases OF
the nervous system, one lecturer on dis
eases Of the skin.
The free dspensary STAFF embraces one
superintendent. eight attending physicians
eight consulting physicians. one consult
ing chemist, one consulting pathoiogist
and bacteriologist. one druggist, one SER
want.
The city free dispensary department n
attended daily by large numbers OF the
| citys poor, white and cOlOred, who re-
| ceive from the able dispensary stan abso-
| lutely free treatment and free medicine.
There were compounded in this depart
ment the past twelve months l1,3ll pre-
scriptions and ~ $40 patients were treated.
The laboratory of general pathology and
bacteriology is literally provided with the
most improved microscopes, and has incu-
bators, microtomes. steriliZers, nlters,
| freezing apparatus for micrOtomes. ana
! other material found in well-equipped
laboratories for practical work and for
preserving pathological and histological
tissues also, scientific apparatus neces-
| sary for practical work i'm histology, pa
/ thology, and bacteriology.
THE OLD DOMINION HOSPITAL.
There has been spent in repairs and i'm
provements on the Old Dominion Hospital,
formerly known as the Hospital OF the
49,. 10 F4F
the control Of that institution, In the past
two years SHOOT, and on the amphi-
theatre in the hospital $l0i9.S7. making a
/ total Of $l2, 2lO6i which has all been paid
| with the exception Oh an Insignificant sum,
/ which Will be lquidated in the next sixty
| days. The present management consists
OF "A lady Board of Managers, OF one hun
dred ladies' OF all the different religious
denominations in the city, who since their
management have labored so faithfully
and well as to nearly always comfortably
fill the building with patients. to meet all
their obligations and to keep a satisfac-
tory balance in the treasury. The hos
pital contains numerous private rooms. all
Of which are light and airy, and n ma
iority OF which are elegantly furnished.
There are besides comfortable. commodi-
GUS and excellent wards for the treat
ment of patients Of limited means. and at
for white persons, which number will be
increased from time to time as circum-
stances will admit. an annex to the hos
pital has recently been fitted up at CON
siderable cost, exclusively for the use OF
colored people, ana contains six beds for
female and six for male patients There
will be three free beds in this annex also.
This addition will be Of great advantage
as regards the ameliorauon OF suffering Of
the colored race.
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES.
There has been established in connection
with the hospital. under the able and efii
Gent management OF Miss ;. Heath Caba-
MISS graduate OF John- Hopkins Uni
versty. a training school for nurses. who,
in addition to daily clinical instruction in
the hospital receive weekly didactic lee
lures from each professor of the Medical
College OF Virginia Tho class at present
consists OF eight pupils. and the advan-
| tages TO the community of having trained
| nurses to visit the bedside OF patients in
their homes are almost incalculable. The
| training school constitutes the nursing
corps OF the hospital and presides in the
/ operating room. They also assist in the
| .omen's and children's department OF the
City Free Dispensary. wnere last year
there were 1.S52 treatments. In addition
| the nurses are engaged in district nursing
and are attending patients outside the
hospital. both pay and charity.
\ committee OF the faculty is now at
work fitting up an apartment In the col
lege for a study, hat, and courtroom for
the students place where they can re-
| main and be comfortable in OF hours.
| Such conditions always occur OF NECESSITY
| in carrying out the requirements of
! graded course.
The large increase in the number OF
students, over so per cent. in two years,
| has necessitated an extension OF the &C
commodations in the lecture rooms and
an enlargement OF the dlssecting hall.
This increase OF patronage is OF a healthy,
natural, and permanent growth. and is
not due 10 fortuitous circumstances only
such methods as are recognized as proper
and legitimate by the most reputable edu
catlonal institutions having beenrused in
bringing IL about.
The prospects are bright for the largest
class In the history OF the college for the
hfty-eghth session, commencing Septem-
Der -. 1885