The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-28
If Merger Is Effected,
81, 100000 to $2,000,000
Will Be Provided.
HALF-MILLION FOR
NEW BUILDINGS
Plan to Make Richmond Great
Centre of Medical Education
Is Laid Before House Com
mittee-Will Specialize on
Training for Public
Health Work.

have been held In New York between
representatives Of the Medical College
or Virginia. the University OF Virginia
foundations. which have at their dis
posal immense sums for the advance
ment OF medical education Practical
assurances were given that IL the plan
Tor amalghmation of medical educa-
tion In this State is carried out, and a.
well equipped school with proper clini-
cal advantages is located in Richmond
and made a constituent part Of the
state university. an endowment of from
sl,5oo.o0o 10 s2,o00,0o0 will be provided.
Not less than 100000 of that amount
is to be expended In modern buildings
10 adequately house such an institu-
tion, with its laboratories and provi-
sions for directing medical education
In the whole territory from the Poto-
mac River to Georgia. The institution
VIII specialize. not on medical research
as at Johns Hopkins. in Baltimore but
on modern sanitation and public health
and the training and equipment of
men for combating disease and direct
ing tho work of communities for bet
ter living conditions
University to Act This Week.
Trustees of the Medical College OF
Virginia laid the whole plan in it's
detail before the Committee on FL
nance OF the House of Delegates last
night, In connection with requests for
appropriations for maintenance The
board of visitors of the University Of
Virginia will act on the matter this
week. and II favorable action is taken,
the two boards will Jointly petition
the General Assembly fog the. legisia-
ton necessary to merge the two in-
stitutions, both of which belong to the
State. -o--,.
Under tho plan proposed. the trus-
tees OF the Medical College of vir-
ginia are 10 resign. and the charter
OF that institution surrendered, It's
property worth over and above all In
debtedness, $4,000. to be decided abso-
lute!y to the University OF Virginia
and the medical school TO be operated
In Richmond hereafter to he known az
the medical department of the Unlver-
stty of Virginia, and be governed by
the trustees and officers of that insti-
tuition for the benefit OF the State.
President S. c. Mitchell. Judge George
L. Christian. chairman OF the board; /;
l.. Il. Morris. chairman OF the execu-
tive committees: DR.. Stuart Mcclure
Eppa Hunton. Jr.. DR.. Christopher
TvmplSins. and others appeared as rep
resertatives of the Medical College OF
Virginia. Members of the committee
expressed deep interest In the plan
90
Whit Has Becn Done.
Mr.. Hunton told briefly of what had
already been accomplished through the
amaigarnation of the local colleges, the
building and equipment OF the Uniyer
sity College OF Medicine, formerly q
private corporation. having been deed
ed over absolutely to the Medical Col
lege cf Virginia. The Memorial Hos
pita1, formerly owned and controlled by
a private corporation. has been also
absolutely transferred to the State in
stitution. which on n conservative val
uat!on Sc now ready to deed to the
University of Virginia real estate In
Richmond worth SS7i,000 in excess OF
all claims against It
Pending such an amalgaination Mr..
Hunton requested $4,000 for main
tenance OF the Medical College OF Vir.
ginia, and $4,000 for operation OF the
Memorial Hospital free lnstitu-
tion for State patients.
1T is our earnest hope and belief
said Mr.. Hunton. that If this merger
financial aid Of not less than $1,000
600 or more than S2.000,0O0"
IIns hut Ninety Medical Students.
II am informed" said Judge Martin
Williams. member of tho COMMITTEES,
cause / have not verified my, informa-
ton. that tho University of Virginia
or opw s5SS tr9 rhf oS m Se
y
partment. and has but ninety stu
dents"
himself an aiumnus Of the University
of Virginia. treasurer Of its alumni
endowment fund. and that he, would
enter no undertaking that would injure
was that there were approximately 100
students at present in the medical de-
partment, OF whom about 10 per cent
are from Virginia. The Medical Col
lege of Virginia now has enrolled 52S
students, of whom $50 are from Vlr-
glnia-a larger number than the maxi
institutions combined in any year OF
their competitive existence.
Dr.. Mcclure Represents DR.. Johnston.
DIR. Stuart Mcclure said that he ap-
peared for DR. George Ben Johnston,
who had expected to address the COM
mittee. but had been detained by an
important professional enlargement.
DR.. MCGUIRE. I'VE want to show you
that the old animosities have been
buried, and that the medical men of
bigger and better thin gs. When my
father founded the University College
more than twenty. years ago, condi-
% no restrictions WT @ on medical erG eol,e@es MSrs
most OF which were private schools.
Any one could matriculate, and COL
lege might teach what 1t pleased;
For the first few years tho college
was operated at a considerable proit,
and the money was put into buildings
and equipment. Then came n move
State after State took 1t up; tho en-
trance requirements wcre raised, first
to n full high school course, and later
ards 90 partial @ io6 Goilsge S course; W the stand
full-timo professors, as to laboratory
equipment and methods of instruction.
We are turning out better doctors. but
at enormously greater cost In the
past ten years nearly one third of the