ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
PRINCE OF WALES MEDICAL COLLEGE, PATNA
F O R T H E
YEAR, 1929-30.
Introductory.—The year under review completes the fifth session of the
college from its inception in 1925. One year more and the first cycle of six
years will see through the few students of the first batch who have progressed
regularly from year to year. Not more than half a dozen of them can now
expect to get their degree in the minimum of time prescribed by the university.
While it would afford satisfaction to all concerned to be able to reduce the
number of failures in the intermediate medical examinations, the paucity of
the successful candidates at least bears silent testimony to the high standard
the attainment of which has been set before our graduates to attain to before
they can go out and set up practice as surgeons and physicians. And it is
only hut proper that very searching tests should be arranged for medical
graduates who would deserve the confidence of the public, accepting our hall–
mark on trust.
Admissions.—The number of applicants for admission this year was 108
which is lower than the figures for all previous years excepting 1927 when it
was 87 only. If the number is large, greater discrimination in the matter of
choice of the students can be exercised by the members of selection board
who at present have to look to the interest of their respective communities.
Hostel.—The total number on the rolls at the end of the session was 218,
of whom I38 were inmates of the college hostel, 73 were with local guardians
or with their parents and 7 in approved non-collegiate hostels under Students’
Residence Committee, Bankipore.
Health and discipline of the boarders were good and most of them worked
regularly and took active part in games.
University examinations, general education of students, their religion
and residences.—The result of the university examination is given in table D
and information about the general education of students before admission,
their religion and places of residence have been furnished in tables A and B.
Number of students on the roll at the end of the year.—A statement
showing the number of students on the roll at the end of the year has been
furnished in table C.
Buildings and accommodation.— The new Physiology block has been
completely fitted up and is being used since the commencement of the present
session. Substitution of a single motor for a number of smaller ones to drive
the recording drums in the Experimental Physiology section has been arranged.
This is expected to reduce the noise in that class during working hours.
Unfortunately a big crack developed in the north wall of the old Public
Health Laboratory temporarily interrupting the work in Practical Histology
which has since been repaired.
The structural alteration of the Pathology building which commenced
early during the year has been completed under the personal supervision of
the Professor during the college vacation at a cost of Rs. 10,393, Rs. 12,630
and Rs. 1,964, by the Public Works Department, the Public Health Depart-
ment (gas and water fittings) and the Electrical Department, respectively..
The department which has been fitted out on modern lines is now in possession
of the entire building except the two lecture theatres on the ground flour, and
accommodates (i) Practical Pathology class rooms for under-graduates and
post-graduates, (ii) Bacteriological laboratory consisting of Bacteriology,
Serology, Morbid Histology and Chemical Pathology sections and (iii) Pasteur
Institute.