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Dental Education and History of

Dental Schools

THE United Statest bureau of education, in a publication for 1907,
accounts for tifty-six dental schools, in which there are engaged six
Imndred and seventy-six professors and six hundred and lifty-three
special and assistant instructors. In these were enrolled six thousand seven hun-
dred and eighty-eight men and eighty-eight women students. Of these only
one hundred and thirty-two held literary degrees. There were graduated in
1906, 1,624. The value of grounds and buildings reported is $1,770,681. The
endowment fund is not in existence and the income exceeding benefices is
stated at $359,009. There were reported in the libraries of these schools
20,955 volumes. The schools are grouped by geographical divisions. In the
Xorth Atlantic Division in the states of Massachusetts, New York and Penn-
sylvania are ten schools with one hundred and six professors, two hundred and
sixteen special and assistant instructors, two thousand and forty men and
forty-six women students, of whom thirteen held literary degrees; four hun-
dred and fifty-one were graduated. The value of grounds and buildings is
stated as $622,681 ; the income $116,319, and the volumes in libraries as 1,771.
In the South Atlantic division, in the states of Maryland, Virginia,
Georgia and the District of Columbia, are ten schools, with one hundred and two
pi-ofessors and eighty-eight assistants, and an enrollment of nine hundred and
sixty-nine men and two women, of whom five had literary degrees : two hundred
and forty graduated. The grounds and buildings are placed at $30,000, the
income at $23,370 and the volumes in libraries at eight hundred.
In the Soutli Central division, in the states of Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana and Texas are eight schools, with ninety-two professors,
and fifty-seven assistant instructors, and six hundred and fifty-three men
students, of whom fifty-eight had literary degrees; one hundred and twenty-
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