Announcement of the Medical School . Departments of Bacteriology, Biophysics,Pathology, and Preventive Medicine and also laboratories of the Departmentof Medicine. In this building there are five floors in one wing and threefloors in the other, with a total floor space of over 48,000 square are animal houses between Building B and D and between BuildingsC and E. Building E houses Pharmacology, Legal Medicine, and Comparative Pa-thology and Tropical Medicine. There are three floors in one wing and fourfloors in the other, with a floor space of 35,000 square feet. An airplane view of
Announcement of the Medical School . Departments of Bacteriology, Biophysics,Pathology, and Preventive Medicine and also laboratories of the Departmentof Medicine. In this building there are five floors in one wing and threefloors in the other, with a total floor space of over 48,000 square are animal houses between Building B and D and between BuildingsC and E. Building E houses Pharmacology, Legal Medicine, and Comparative Pa-thology and Tropical Medicine. There are three floors in one wing and fourfloors in the other, with a floor space of 35,000 square feet. An airplane view of the buildings and their position is shown on facingpage. The clinical departments are housed in the various hospitals associated withthe School. Vanderbilt Hall (F), the dormitory for male medical students,is immediately adjacent to the .Medical School buildings. HOSPITAL FACILITIES The Massachusetts General Hospital. — This is a general hospital foundedin 1811 and ever since associated with the Medical School. There are services. HOSPITAL FACILITIES 17 in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, dermatology, genito-urinary diseases, ortho-paedics, gynaecology, neurology, neurosurgery, anaesthesia and psychiatry, allof which are used in giving instruction in these special departments of medi-cine. The hospital has 886 beds, 453 of them being available for teachingpurposes. In the General Hospital 7,227 patients were admitted in 1946, andthere were 135,824 patients days treatment. Large out-patient departmentsare also used for instruction in the above clinical subjects. 21,678 new pa-tients were admitted to the out-patient department last year for a total of237,630 visits. 14,100 patients were treated in the emergency ward. Labora-tories for pathology, chemistry, metabolism, medical and surgical research,and x-ray are maintained, and there is an excellent medical library, all ofwhich are open to students in the Medical School. In 1943 the Collis P. Huntington Hospital and its associated
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