State Committee Recommends New Medical School for Boston District

A special legislative commission Thursday filed a report recommending construction of a state medical and dental school in the Boston area.

The commission report paralleled the proposals Governor Paul A. Dever made a week ago when he called for construction of a state health center around the site of the new state chronic diseases hospital under construction in the Forest Hills section.

The commission proposed that the new school provide courses for 400 medical students and 300 dental students.

It said that the medical school could be constructed for $5,250,000 and that the annual budget for operation of the school would be a little more than $1 million.

The commission found that the three present medical schools in the state, Harvard, Tufts, and Boston University, had a "significantly greater" number of qualified applicants each year than the numbers accepted.

The chairman of the special commission, Senator George J. Evans (R-Wake-field) filed a minority report in which he said that "the majority report simply amplifies a prior presumption." He said that analysis of the available figures on the number and distribution of doctors "shows that there is no substantial basis for the recommendation that Massachusetts establish a medical and dental college at the expense of the taxpayer."