RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES 77
made an appropriation of $20,000 to continue
this aid for the two-year period ending July 31,
1937.
School of Medicine of the University of Chicago
Establishment and Maintenance of a Subdepartment
of Psychiatry
The School of Medicine of the University of
Chicago has been one of the few important
medical schools of the United States without a
department of psychiatry. Plans to remedy this
defect have been under consideration at the
university for some time. The possibility of aid
for research work from the Sprague Fund has
made the project especially attractive. The proposed
plans are now being put into effect with
the aid of a Rockefeller Foundation grant of
$168,000. This sum will cover the cost of the
building alterations and the equipment necessary
to the establishment of a subdepartment of
psychiatry in the School of Medicine and will
provide for its maintenance and for the salaries
of personnel over the three-year period ending
June 30, 1938. The new subdepartment, which
will at first be a small unit, will be intimately
affiliated with other clinical, laboratory, and
teaching activities of the university. Especially
close connection will be maintained with the
Department of Medicine.
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