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Show - THE MEDICAL METROPOLIS. n Philadelphia Losing- Her Former Pre-eminence." ' For many years past Philadelphia has been famous as a training-place for doctors, doc-tors, and has believed . herself to be the medical metropolis of the United States. Her schcols are justly famed and some of the instructors in them have acquired a world-wide celebrity. Nevertheless, so far as mere numbers go, she is now excelled ex-celled by both Chicago and New York. Of the total number of medical ' students in the country, New York now has 14.9, Chicago 11.3, Philadelphia 10.8, Cincinnati Cincin-nati 5.7, and St. Louis 4.3 per cent. Of graduates the New York schools have furnished 13 per cent, the Chicago schools 12.3 percent, the Philadelphia schools 9.7 per cent, the Cincinnati schools 6.4 per cent, and the St. Louis schools 5 per cent. These figures are furnished by the Chicaga News. They need explanation, for the Chicago schools have now a much larger number of students than ever before, be-fore, and it is hard to see where so large a percentage of Chicago graduates come from. The increase in attendance at the Chicago schools in seven years has been 40 per cent. In 1877 Chicago was outranked out-ranked not only by New York, but by Philadelphia and Cincinnati also. According to the same authority, the total number of medical students in the United States has increased in seven years from 8,700 to 12,779 nearly 47 per cent. Students of the "regular" school have increased from 7,060 to 10,858 nearly 54 per cent. Students of homoeopathy homoeo-pathy have increased about 16 per cent, and eclectic students about the same. In Chicago, however, the "regular" school has gained only 34 per cent, while the homoeopathic has gained 45 per cent. That city has two large homoeopathic schools and twice as many homoeopathic students as any other city. Cincinnati has the most eclectic students, followed by Chicago and New York. Philadelphia, Chicago, Ney York and Baltimore have schools for - the medical education of women only, and rank in the order named. It appears, therefore, that the honors are divided. While Philadelphia is the allopathic headquarters, Chicago the homoeopathic and Cincinnati the eclectic, New York has the most schools of all sorts and the most students. Chicago may be, as its inhabitants confidently predict, the medical metropolis of the future, but New York holds that place now, and will probably continue to hold it a while longer. New York Mail and Express. |
