Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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1 1 -K m % Tne President ' s Statement OLLOWING a statement by Tulane University of its need of a medical clinic building and of the estimated cost of such a building, the General Education Board has appropriated the sum requested, namely, $1,250,000, for the construction and equipment of this building. The new medical building will take care of all the work now con- ducted in the present Hutchinson Building on Canal street. It will pro- vide for the instruction of the third and fourth year medical students with the necessary classrooms and laboratories and will furnish a better distribution of space, as well as more adequate equipment for this work. The new building, however, is intended to do much more than this. In it will be operated out-patient clinics for the various medical branches. These clinics will be arranged and conducted for the purpose of teaching medical students the practical treatment of patients in preparation for their future work. The building will be erected on the property purchased recently by the University in the square adjacent to the Charity Hospital on Tulane Avenue. Plans are now being drawn up by the architects and it is hoped they will be completed at an early date. It will be necessary to conduct the clinic at first on a very small scale until the University is able to realize revenue from the Canal Street property to justify the enlarge- ment of the clinics to a full-time operation. H CP ' TT , TLvuo J ' President. ■¥ ,