105.
FROM
LINDSAY NEILL, ESQUIRE,
OFFG. ASST. SECRETARY TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER,
Central Provinces.
To
THE PRINCIPAL OF THE NAGPUR SCHOOL OF MEDICINE,
Central Provinces.
Dated Nagpur, the 21st July 1875.
SIR,
I am directed by the Chief Commissioner to acknowledge receipt of your seventh
annual report on the School of Medicine, and am to make the following brief observations.
2. At the close of the preceding session, March 31st 1874, 25 students remained under
instruction, and on the 1st June 31 new Students joined. Of these 31 new students 16 were
inhabitants of the Central Provinces, and the rest came from various other parts of India.
3. The character and qualifications of the students, and more particularly of the new ad-
missions, appear not to have been good; one absconded, one was imprisoned for theft, and
fifteen were dismissed for incapacity, inattention and misbehaviour. Your report does not
state the quota of dismissed students furnished by the Central Provinces admissions, but it is
satisfactory to learn that three of these latter are Maratha Brahmins* who hold out promise of
success.
4. The Surgeon General, Indian Medical Department, has recently drawn the attention
of al l Deputy Surgeons General and other Medi cal Offi cers to the necessi ty for di screti on i n the sel ecti on of young men who are to be trai ned as Hospi tal Assi stants and for careful supervi -si on duri ng thei r year of probati on. The Chi ef Commi ssi oner can see no reason, i f the re
-quisite discretion in selection be exercised and if proper supervision be observed, why young
men of suitable attainments and calibre should not be got.
5. In the 8th paragraph of your report you comment on the bad example set by pupils
whom you have sentenced to dismissal, but which dismissal is subject to the sanction of supe
- r i o r a u t h o r i t y , w h o r e m a i n o n a t t h e s c h o o l i n i d l e n e s s a n d d r a w t h e i r p a y . T h e C h i e f
Commissioner cannot understand why such pupils should be allowed to draw pay. On their
suspension stoppage of pay should ipso facto follow.
6. Some changes have taken place in the staff of teachers during the year and a re-distri
- b u t i o n o f t h e i r d u t i e s h a s a l s o b e e n m a d e . M r . M o r r i s i s g l a d t o s e e t h a t y o u a r e a b l e t o
report so satisfactorily regarding all of them; and one of them, Assistant Surgeon Jadub Kishn
Chose, is personally known to the Chief Commissioner as an efficient and painstaking teacher
7. Through the liberality and public spirit of a few native gentlemen you were able to
offer incentives to learning in and general proficiency, in the shape of 21 prizes; and these
appear to have been carried off by twelve students,—one student, Jehangir Bux, obtaining the
four principal prizes of the second year.
8: During March and April of the present year the annual examinations were held, when
twelve students who had completed their full term of study were found qualified, and have
since been admitted into Government service as Passed Medical Pupils; promotions were also
made amongst the students of the 2nd and 1st year who passed satisfactory examinations.
* One of these students, Heera Lal bears a name which if correctly given, might make one feel sceptical of his
being really a Brahmin.
21 7 75 z. 253-239