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serious difficulty. = It would also include a free medical service in a clinical » building, with suggestions to students to consult a physician or go to a hospital. It might also include a certain amount of medical attendance, as it does in some institutions. It would necessitate a provision for hospital service, either by arrangement with a local hospital or by the erection of an infirmary for the special use of students. It would require the organization of a staff consisting of at least one male physician, one female physician, and the necessary assistants. T h e expense of such a service might be largely provided for by a health fee collected from each student in the University. W e have been upon the verge several times of serious outbreaks of epidemic diseases in the student body which, owing to a possible panic among the students, might be spread over the state in every direction in spite of all the efforts of local or state health officers. The case is, in my opinion, serious.

On motion of Mr. Can*, the President of the University was requested to submit a detailed plan for the organization of such a health service. WORK IN ANATOMY IN URBANA

(7) A recommendation that the President of the University be authorized to organize a department of anatomy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Urbana-Champaign. It is proposed to locate the laboratory in the top of the Natural History building in certain rooms on the north side of the south corridor, with an extension, if necessary, to the rooms on the west side of the building. To do this work effectively it would be necessary to put an elevator in the stairway well at the center of the west side of the building, at a cost of between thirty-five hundred and four thousand dollars. It would also be necessary to carry certain plumbing into the top story, and put in some additional sky lights, and a water-proof composition floor. The total cost, including the coarser furniture but not including the apparatus, is estimated at $7500. It would take perhaps $6000 more to man the department adequately. If this were done, it would be possible for students who wish to spend three years in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to pursue a course which would enable them to enter the sophomore year of first-class medical schools. At present it is difficult for students who pursue medical studies at Urbana-Champaign to fit them in exactly with the programs of other medical schools.

On motion of Mrs. Busey, the President of the University was authorized to proceed with the construction of the laboratory for anatomy. The vote was as follows : Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Carr, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Small, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Trevett, Mr. Ward.