It was logical to expect that with the removal of the Department of Hygiene from Wadsworth House to the present quarters on Holyoke Street, the improvement in equipment would see a like change in the service rendered. To the undergraduate who finds it necessary to consult the University physicians, the more comprehensive office hours, extending with little interruption through the day, and the comfortable waiting rooms with the February sixteenth issue of "Time" are the only evidences of such a change.

The CRIMSON has long voiced its dissatisfaction with Stillman Infirmary, and has indicated the reforms that are necessary to that antedated institution. It is hardly possible, therefore, that the medical service rendered by the University will be satisfactory until conditions at Stillman are alleviated. Until the advent of another deluge of gold and mortar, however, much can be accomplished in improving the extra-infirmary branches of the University medical service. There are at present four physicians associated with Harvard on a part time basis, all of whom are inclined to adopt a laissez-faire attitude to their moderately ill patients and to those who seek treatment at the Hygiene Building. It is quite natural that a staff desirous of developing a practice outside Harvard will look lightly upon a not too remunerative affiliation with the University. In addition ill members of the University are sure to find a variegated series of physicians bills plaguing their recuperative days, and there are numerous instances of cases where more interested medical attention in the early stages of an illness would have averted an operation or a long stay at Stillman.

The present difficulties can be somewhat overcome, if two of the present part time physicians be replaced by a competent doctor whose whole time and effort will be devoted to the care of Harvard students. From such an arrangement would accrue several benefits. A full time physician would be available at the Hygiene building during the day except when visiting his own patients in the Infirmary. Residing at or near Stillman he would be on call there for emergencies at almost any time, while his adequate salary from the University would obliterate the obnoxious post-illness bills. There is a genuine need for a University physician, whose interests will be concentrated on Harvard and whose duties will supplement those of the present surgeons. The University should immediately provide one.