Previous interest in establishing a UC teaching hospital on the Parnassus site took on momentum as a civic responsibility to provide care in an area where it was needed.
More than 40,000 people took shelter and sought treatment in a tent city in Golden Gate Park after the great 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. Faculty sprung into action treating those injured from the earthquake and subsequent fire. The Affiliated Colleges, located on the hill above the encampment in what was then the far western section of the city, suddenly were situated close to a significant population. When the great San Francisco earthquake destroyed much of San Francisco and the city’s medical facilities in April 1906, more than 40,000 people took shelter and sought treatment in a tent city in Golden Gate Park, where makeshift outdoor hospitals were set up. San Francisco Mayor Adolph Sutro donated 13 acres on a site overlooking Golden Gate Park - known today as Parnassus Heights - and the new Affiliated Colleges buildings opened in fall 1898.
The three Affiliated Colleges - also called UC departments - were located at various sites in San Francisco, and after several years there was strong interest in bringing them together. Eight years later, the UC Regents added a dental college.
UC President Daniel Coit Gilman, who strongly supported science education, set a precedent for the young university by affiliating in 1873 with both Toland Medical College and the California College of Pharmacy. The college prospered, and Toland sought to affiliate with the University of California, which had opened its campus in Berkeley in 1868.
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