DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



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The following table shows the number of students registered in the 

 rarious courses during the year 1915-1916: 



Courses IC, 18, 20, 21 and 22 were transferred September 1, 1915, to the Pathology department. 

 ♦Course 23 was repeated in the spring term as an accommodation to senior engineering students 

 desiring credits unobtainable in engineering subjects on accoimt of the Engineering Building fire. 



I take great pride in the spirit shown by the various workers in this 

 laboratory in respect to their relation to the student applying for in- 

 struction. Our research men are xevy patient in the presence of the 

 many inconveniences resulting from student demands. I am not ready 

 to state that research suffers seriously by our arrangement, but it is 

 clear to me that the student may be greatly benefited by association with 

 the research men, I wish to especially commend the work of Miss North- 

 rup and Mr. Kulp, who bear the bruut of the laboratory instruction, who 

 have not the stimulus furnished by the opportunity for research and who 

 face without murmur the prospect of a hundred per cent increase in num- 

 ber of students for the coining year with no additional instructors to 

 assist them. 



The health of the student body, entrusted rather loosely and in- 

 definitely to our care, is a matter of much concern to us. Our annual 

 reports to your esteemed predecessor indicate our ideas relative to the 

 need of certain changes and to the nature of these changes as do also our 

 correspondence with you in this connection. On March 15, 1916, a s!tu- 

 dent was taken to one of the detention hospitals with scarlet fever. Dur- 

 ing the previous week we had detained three men with measles and 

 German measles and during the subsequent period up to the first of 

 May, 1916, we detained 14 cases on account of scarlet fever, 11 cases of 

 measles, one case of mumps and one of small-pox. There was also one 

 case of diphtheria in the household of a faculty member resident off the 

 campus. By June 3, 1916, every case had been dismissed from the 

 hospitals and there had been no fatalities nor any unusually serious com- 

 plications. It became necessary for us to utilize a dwelling on the cam- 

 pus in addition to our four detention hospitals and to use the general 

 hospital for convalescents, but in all cases the students tcere cared for 

 on the cam/pus hy the college authorities. A considerable number of 



