United States Medical College, New York (eclectic; illegal; extinct), Detroit Medical College, College of Medicine and Surgery of Baltimore, Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, . National, D. C. (Medical Department of Columbian University), Harvard Medical College, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, Medical Department of Yale College, Connecticut, New York Medical College (merged into Bellevue Hospital Medical College), Charity Hospital Medical College, Ohio, . Bowdoin Medical College, Maine, University of Glasgow, Scotland, Royal College of Medicine of Edinburgh, Scotland, University of Würtzburg, Germany, University of Berlin, University of Vienna, University of Jena, Germany, . Woman's Medical College of Germany, Albert Medical College of Canada, . University of Koenigsberg, Germany, McGill University of Montreal, Canada, Columbian Medical College of Michigan, Columbia of New York (College of Physicians and Surgeons), Homeopathic Medical School of Massachusetts (Boston University), Metropolitan, of New York (extinct), . Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri, Franklin Medical College,. Medical Department of Victoria College, Canada (extinct), Bolomidico Generale, Nicaragua, University of Keeskenell, Russia, Evansville Medical College of Indiana (suspended), University of Marburg, University of Amsterdam, Hoscomic Ineular Longo, Germania Medical College of Austria, State University of Iowa, Chicago Medical College, University of Erlingen, Germany, University of Padua, Italy, University of Coburg, Canada, . University of Stuttgart, Germany, University of Indiana (fraudulent; extinct), Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, Illinois, Syracuse Eclectic Medical College of New York (extinct), New York Ophthalmic Hospital, College of Medicine and Surgery of Keokuk, Iowa, Julio Hospital College, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Canada, Fairfield Medical College of New York (extinct 1840), 7 7 9 7 6 8 7 7 6 7 4 4 3 3 3 3 222222222222222221 New York Medical College for Women, Reformed Medical College of New York (Eclectic; extinct), . Manchester Medical College, New Hampshire (fraudulent; extinct), Savannah Medical College (extinct 1880), Indiana Medical College, Academica Ludovicenia, University of Freyburg, Switzerland, College of Augsburg, . University of Naples, University of Herford, Prussia, Institute of Midwifery, Total, 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 7,315 Nationality of Physicians of Foreign Birth in Pennsylvania. The returns fail to show the place of birth of many of the physicians. Of the 8,248 reported, 641 are of foreign birth. The following tables gives the number of foreign born, and shows the number of each nationality: It will be seen from this table that of the 641 foreign born physicians, Great Britain is the birthplace of 152 and Germany of 131. The registration indicates that 7,316 are graduates of medical colleges, 2,009 being among the alumni of Jefferson Medical College, and 1,945 among the alumni of the University of Pennsylvania. The returns further show that there are 932 physicians without diplomas, who are now practicing under the provisions of the fifth section of the act of 1881, which allowed those who had been in constant practice for ten years to continue without certificates of graduation. Of 8,248 reported, 7,932 are males and 316 females. In the counties of Allegheny and Erie about nine per centum of the physicians are females. Distribution of Physicians by Counties. The following table shows (in each county) the number of persons to each physician, the number of male and female physicians, the number practicing without diplomas, the number who are foreign born, and the total number registered: APPENDIX I. CORRESPONDENCE. 1. Letter on an objectionable advertisement, by Benjamin Lee, M. D., Secretary. 2. On the right of a board of health to license slaughter houses, by Benjamin Lee, M. D., Secretary. 3. The sanitary condition of Altoona, by Chas. B. Dudley, M. D. 4. The sanitary condition of Plymouth. 5. Right of the State Board of Health to enforce the model ordinance, by Benjamin Lee, M. D., Secretary. 6. Right of a board of health to forbid erection of butcher shops, by Benjamin Lee, M. D., Secretary. I. LETTER ON AN OBJECTIONABLE ADVERTISEMENT. By BENJAMIN LEE, M. D., Secretary. PHILADELPHIA, April 24, 1888. Editor Medical and Surgical Reporter: An editorial in the last issue of your valuable journal under the heading, "A new use for a State Board of Health," affords me an opportunity for publicly correcting a misstatement which has been the source of excessive annoyance to the Pennsylvania State Board of Health. The following is the explanation of the very objectionable placard, in one of the lines of street passenger railway cars to which you call attention. The "Annals of Hygiene" which has been adopted by the Board as its official organ, has undertaken, on its own responsibility, a series of analyses of articles of food, including beverages. These analyses it has from time to time published, with comments on their results. Among the articles thus analyzed were several beers. The proprietor of the beer which showed the best result has taken advantage of the fact that the "Annals" is the official organ of the Board to announce that the Board commends his beer. The subject of beer has never been discussed by the Board. The Board has never authorized an analysis of beers. Perhaps it has been derelict in not doing so, but it conceived that other duties were more important and pressing. The moment that the advertisement referred to |