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and extensions became imperative; a block was constructed in close proxi-
mity to the King George Hospital for teaching Pathology and Bacterio-
logy and was occupied in July 1925; the Departments of Physiology,
Biology and Anatomy were housed in a building erected in 1927 near
the old College buildings and those of Pharmacology, Hygiene and
Biochemistry in another building completed in 1932.
The College has attached to it a hospital with 348 beds where facilities
exist for imparting clinical education to the students of the College.
Additions were made in 1928 to the Hospital buildings to provide accom-
modation for 40 beds for Maternity and Gynaecological cases, and another
block was completed in 1932 to accommodate 80 beds for the Eye and
Ear, Nose and Throat Departments. The Mental Hospital at Waltair,
situated 3 miles away from the King George Hospital, Vizagapatam, is
also attached to the College, where clinical instruction in mental diseases
is given.
A comprehensive scheme for enlarging and modernizing the College
and its Hospital is at present under the consideration of Government. If
sanctioned, it will provide for new Operation Theatres, outpatients depart-
ments and wards for venereal, infectious and tubercular cases, besides a
new Anatomy and Chemistry Department and several other improvements_
The rules of admission are the same as those of the Medical College,
Madras; the maximum number of students that can be admitted in any
one year is 50. No seats are reserved specifically for women students or
students from other Provinces.
The number of students working at a time in a practical class does
not exceed 100 in Anatomy dissections and 48 in Biochemistry and
Pharmacology; 42 in Physiology (Histology) and 38 in Pathology and
Bacteriology ; 36 in Experimental Physiology and 30 in Organic Chemistry;
and 28 in Inorganic Chemistry, 26 in Biology and 25 in Physics.
A special class for Chemists and Druggists was started in July 1937.
The number of admissions to this class is limited to 6 students. Those
who have qualified for a Secondary School-leaving certificate taking.
Physics or Chemistry as 'C' group subjects are eligible for admission.
The course extends over two years. At the end of the course students
should appear for the examination at Madras, and a diploma in Pharmacy
will be awarded by the Government of Madras to the successful candi-
dates.
37 papers on various subjects of medical interest were published by
members of the staff during 1936-37.
GRANT MEDICAL COLLEGE, BOMBAY.
It is a Government institution established in the year 1845 to com-
memorate the memory of the late Sir Robert Grant, Governor of Bombay,
with the object of imparting medical education to the natives of Western
India. It began its first session with only 12 students. Half of the initial
cost of building the College was defrayed by the friends of Sir Robert
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Grant and the other half by Government, who is also responsible for
providing funds for the maintenance and upkeep of the institution. The
College was affiliated to the University of Bombay in 1860. It has
attached to it a laboratory for scientific medical research—the gift of
Mr. Framji Dinshaw Petit—which was opened in 1891. The Anatomy
block with its dissecting room was built in 1903 and the Pathological
Laboratory and Lecture room and the Anatomical and Physiological
Lecture Threatre were completed in 1910. In 1913, the Physiological
School and Laboratories were also added to the College buildings. The
College library has about 8,000 books and 5,000 journals. Clinical instruc-
tion to the students of the College is imparted in (i) Sir Jamsetji Jeejee-
bhoy Hospital, with accommodation for 365 beds, (ii) the Sir Cawasji
Jehangir Ophthalmic Hospital built in 1866 wits accommodation for 73
patients, (iii) the Bai Motlibai Hospital built in 1892, (iv) the Sir Dinshaw
Manekji Petit Hospital for Women opened in 1892, and (v) the Sir B. J.
Hospital for Children, which was opened in 1928 and has accommodation
for 100 beds.
The College provides medical education upto the degree standard for
the graduates and undergraduates of the Bombay and other recognised
Universities and for European and Anglo-Indian Military medical students
under training for recruitment to the Military Assistant Surgeons Branch
of the Indian Medical Department. Facilities also exist for post-graduate
study in Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery, Pathology, Bacteriology, Ophthal-
mology, Physiology and Hygiene.
120 students are admitted annually. Candidates seeking admission
must have passed the Group 'B' Intermediate Science Examination of
the Bombay University in Chemistry, Physics and Biology or an equi-
valent examination of some other University as recognised by the Bombay
University. Selection is made on the basis of marks obtained by candi-
dates at the Intermediate examination, preference being given to candi-
dates belonging to the Bombay Presidency provided such candidates have
received their preliminary education at a college affiliated to the Univer-
sity of Bombay. Of the total number of seats available, 10 per cent. each
go to Mohammedans, backward class Hindus, and women students.
Seven seats are reserved for candidates from Sind and 5 for Military
medical students.
According to the University regulations there should be one demons-
trator for every 20 students in practical classes, but the College does not
observe any specific rules in this respect. For practical classes students
are generally divided into batches of not more than 40.
24 papers Were published during 1936-37 by members of the staff on
various subjects of medical interest.
SETH GORDHANDAS SUNDERDAS MEDICAL COLLEGE, BOMBAY.
It is a non-Government institution and owes its origin to the endow-
ment in 1916 of Rs. 14½ lakhs from the trustees of the late Seth Gordhan-
das Sunderdas, offered to the Bombay Municipal Corporation for the
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foundation of a medical college in association with the King Edward VII
Memorial Hospital which the Corporation had already undertaken to build,
equip and maintain. The endowment was made under certain conditions
the most important of which was that the professors and teachers to be
employed should be all properly qualified independent Indian gentlemen
not in Government service. The cost of constructing and equipping the
College amounted to Rs. 18,96,132 and of the Hospital to Rs. 52,91,915.
The College was opened in June 1925. The Hospital accommodates 370
beds at present and the Bombay Municipal Corporation have approved of
its extension by 106 beds Besides this, there are two more hospitals
where clinical instruction is imparted to the students of the College: one
is the Nowrosji Wadia Maternity Hospital which was completed in 1927
and has 150 beds and an ante-natal department, and the other is the Bai
Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children which was completed in 1929 and
accommodates 126 beds and a solarium. Both these hospitals owe their
origin to the princely donation of the Wadia brothers amounting to
Rs. 40,42.865.
The College possesses an Anatomy museum and a Pathological museum
called the "Seth Jamnadas Lallubhai Pathological Museum". The Hostel
which has accommodation for 144 students was constructed at a total cost
of Rs. 3,29,172. The College, together with the Hospital and other
associated buildings occupies an area of about 17 acres.
The College was affiliated in 1926 to the University of Bombay for the
M. B. B. S. degree. It is also affiliated to the University for under-
graduate and post-graduate courses of study in Animal Physiology, Com-
parative Anatomy, Embryology, Bacteriology and Microbiology. It is
affiliated to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Bombay, for all its
examinations. The College and the Hospital have been recognised for
post-graduate degrees and diplomas granted by the University of Bombay,
as well as for various examinations held by the Conjoint Board (London),
the Royal College of Surgeons (England) and for D. 0. examination of the
University of Oxford.
Eighty students are admitted every year. Candidates desirous of
admission must have passed the Intermediate examination in Science of
the Bombay University in the group of Physics, Chemistry and Biology,
or an equivalent examination of any other recognised University with
Organic Chemistry as one of the subjects. No seats are reserved for
women students or for students from backward or special communities.
Sixty seats are reserved for students from the City of Bombay and the
Bombay Suburban District and five for nominees of the C. P. Government.
The number of students working at a time in a practical class is
approximately 70 in Pathology and Bacteriology, 50 in Experimental
pharmacology, 27 in Physiology and 25 in Practical Pharmacy. The pro-
portion of teachers and/or demonstrators to students is 1 to 20 in the
practical classes of Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Pathology and
Bacteriology and approximately the same in Medical and Surgical classes,
and 1. to 12 in Gynaecological classes and 1 to 9 in Midwifery.
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The staff of the College published 13 papers on various subjects of
medical interest during 1936-37.
MEDICAL COLLEGE, CALCUTTA (BENGAL).
It is a Government institution and is one of the oldest Medical Colleges
in India. It was the first to teach the preliminary Sciences and give
clinical training under the same roof. On the recommendation of a Com-
mittee on Medical Education appointed by Lord William Bentinck, His
Lordship in Council issued an Order dated the 28th January 1835 abolishing
the Native Medical Institute together with the medical classes in the
Sanskrit College and at the Madarassa in Calcutta and decreed that a
new College should be formed for the instruction of a certain number of
Indian youths in the various branches of medical science. A Medical
College was accordingly started in 1835 in the buildings formerly occupied
by the Petty Court Jail. Although the College had no hospital in the
beginning, arrangements were made for imparting clinical instruction to
the students at the various city dispensaries and hospitals. In 1838,
however, a ward with 20 beds and an outpatients department was
opened. In this year a Hindustani class was also opened for the education
of subordinate doctors. An outpatients dispensary was established in
1839. The first examination was held in October 1838 after 3½ years
study, and Government approved of the results.
In 1840 a female lying-in hospital with 100 beds was constructed within
the College premises with the aid of funds raised by public subscription.
By 1844 the hospital had 3 wards with accommodation for 112 beds. In
1845 the system of instruction was overhauled and the period of study
extended to 5 years. As a result of these changes the College received
the recognition of the Royal College of Surgeons in England and of the
Apothecaries Society of London, and four students were sent to England
for higher study. In 1851 a section for the training of doctors through
the medium of Bengali was added to the Hindustani class. In 1852-53
a large hospital with accommodation for 350 beds was opened, 50 being
reserved for maternity and allied cases. The College had at this time 10
Chairs, viz. , those for Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, Chemistry, Botany,
Materia Medica, Medical jurisprudence, Midwifery, Surgery, Medicine
and Ophthalmic Surgery and possesed an ample museum.
The College was affiliated to the University of Calcutta in 1857. In
1860 a Code of Rules was drawn up for all classes of the Medical College
dividing the students into four classes, v i z . ,
( i ) t h e p r i m a r y a n d C e y l o n
classes taking the full University Curriculum of 5 years, (ii) the Apprentice
class, (iii) the Hindusthani class and (iv) the Bengalee class (the latter
pursuing a 3 years' course). The native apothecary class and the verna-
cular licentiate class with a total number of 873 students were transferred
to a new school in the Campbell Hospital. Training in dentistry was
started in 1861 and in Hygiene in 1864-65. A woman student was
admitted for the first time in 1884. The minimum qualification for
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admission into the Medical College was raised to the first examination in
Arts in 1874. College and Hospital extensions were also made. In 1891
the present Old Eye Hospital was opened with 57 beds. In 1876 the
construction of nurses' quarters and a new ward for alcoholic cases was
sanctioned. Chunnilal Seal's outdoor dispensary was completed in July
1880. The Eden and Ezra Hospitals were opened in 1881 and 1887
respectively. The Isolation Block of the Eden Hospital was completed in
1894. In 1899 the actual number of beds in the Medical College group
of Hospitals was 449.
In 1906 the L. M. S. qualification of the University was abolished and
the duration of the course was extended to 6 years. In 1904 the control
of the medical education of the Province was transferred from the Director
of Public Instruction to the Inspector General of Civil Hospitals. In
1916 the preliminary qualification for admission was raised to the Inter-
mediate in Arts or Science.
Besides a large Administrative block containing a library, a theatre,
an examination hall, the office and the students' common room, the
College has at present 3 blocks of buildings housing the Chemical
Examiner's Department and the Departments of Chemistry, Botany,
Zoology, Physics, Physiology and Pathology with its museum and of
Anatomy with its museum. There are 744 beds, at present, in the various
hospitals attached to the College, where clinical education is imparted
to the students.
Two classes of students are admitted to the College, (i) Military
medical students, of whom 10 are selected for training by the Director
General, Indian Medical Service (ii) the Civil students class whose admis-
sion is governed as follows:
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The minimum qualification for admission is a 1st class pass certificate
of the I. Sc. examination, special consideration being given to proficiency
in English, though Mohammedans who have passed that examination in
the 2nd division may also be admitted. Women students are also
admitted provided there is room in the Swarnamoyee Hostel which is the
only hostel for women students. Selection is made by a Selection Com-
mittee appointed for the purpose. The selected students are required to
undergo a medical examination as well. The maximum number of
students that can be admitted in any one year is 105. One seat is
reserved for a nominee of the Nepal State, another for a nominee of the
Inspector General of Civil Hospitals, Central Provinces and Berar, 3 for
nominees of the Dacca University and the same number for those of the
Dacca Intermediate Board of Secondary Education. The Surgeon General,
Bengal, nominates 5 candidates and the Inspector General of Civil
Hospitals, Assam, six. Of the remaining seats, 5 go to women, 21 to
Mohammedans and the rest, viz ., 60 to other candidates.
The number of students working at a time in a practical class does not
exceed 60 in Chemistry, Physics, Pathology and Biology (Botany and
Zoology), 54 in Physiology, 40 in Pharmacology and 33 in Anatomy.