Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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9 3 B I'rank C. I lammond began 20 years of unceasing effort as dean to advance the institution to the coveted A rating. From 1905 to 1 ) 1 ■) two more floors and a roof garden were added to the Samaritan I fospital. In i()2 | it was felt that the Oarretson Hospital as such had outlived its usefulness because of the fact that many industrial plants were moving to distant suburban locations, and the maternity department had been moved to the Grealheart Hospital at Fighteenlh and Spring Garden Streets, in the Spring of 1923. It was therefore der ided to utilize the three upper floors of the GarretsOn Building lor laboratories, whereupon modern equipment was installed lor the Departments of Physiology. Fmbryology and Histology. Pathology and Bacteriology. In addition, a new anatomical dissecting room was installed in the basement. On duly 18. 1923, the most elaborate improvement of the Samaritan Hospital was completed with the dedication of a new main building, raising the capacity to 233 beds, with provision lor a new kitchen, record room, amphitheatre, and operating rooms. In 1927. two new medical wards, the Roosevelt Wards, with 58 beds, were added, bringing the total to 330. Finally in 1929. in order more clearly to indicate the relation of the I fospital to the University, it was renamed I emple University Hospital. ' In spite of these improvements the American Medical Association refused a request to grant the School a new rating. At last, in 1928. following an inspection by the committee of the American Medical Association, the much-sought A rating was obtained, climaxing the long continued, tireless efforts of Dean Hammond. The Library 21

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I'm: Hospital was built, bringing the bed capacity to 110. The basement was equipped to render dispensary services. in 1904, two students wbo had been admitted to advanced standing comprised the first graduating (lass, and in 1903. two more, similarly admitted, were graduated. Or. I. Newton Snively became Oean in 1903. and in 1906 a class ol fourteen men. the Iirst to receive their entire medical education in the Medical Department of Temple College, was graduated. Temple College was granted the title of Temple University” by the Philadelphia Courts in 1907. converting the Medical Department into the School of Medicine. Shortly thereafter the Philadelphia Dental College and the Garre tson I lospital at Kighteenth and Buttonwood Streets, were annexed to I emple I niver sitv. and medical classes were moved to that location, furnishing executive offices, lecture rooms, a library, and an amphitheatre — ample facilities with which to carry on. I he Garretson Hospital had a capacity ol 73 beds, and was amply supplied with cases for traumatic surgery from the surrounding industrial plants. Almost immediately, because of unfavorable legislation, it became apparent that the evening classes would have to he abandoned since it was impossible for graduates to obtain the necessary licensure to practice in many states. It was with regret, therefore, that students were urged, wherever possible, to transfer to day ciasss which were being organized. A lour year course of nine months each was instituted, the Junior and Senior years being taken in the daytime. I bus the night school was gradually discontinued. The enrollment of the School of Medicine in 1908-1909 totaled 238 students, and the teaching stall had grown from 20 to 83. Such was the school w hen Dr. 20 s K U L L

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The Auditorium 22 Efforts were begun lor lire enlargement and improvement of tire faculty witlr (Ire appointment, in 1:910. of Dr. Wmi N. Parkinson, class of 1911. as Medical Director of Temple University Hospital and Dean of lire School of Medicine. In the same year hope became reality when construction began oir lire new and modern building for the Medical School at Broad and Ontario Streets, to be built Dispensary Waiting Room