ing Government on the completion of his course, with the intention of
establish-ing himself hereafter as an independent Medical practitioner.
6. Some progress has thus been made towards the carrying out of two of
the principal ends for which the Nágpúr School. of Medicine was established, viz.,
the education of Maráthás to be the physicians of their own race, and the
for-mation of a class of independent Medical practitioners.
7. The third and no less important object of the school,—the supply of
Hospital Assistants for Government service,–may, I think, also be said to have
been hitherto fairly carried out. The school is now in the fourth year of its existence
and it has added already thirty Hospital Assistants to the subordinate Medical
service, of whom nine have now been in employ for the last twelve months. In
accordance with the desire of the Chief Commissioner, I have not lost sight of
these nine young men, and I am glad to be able to say that the reports of the
Medical officers, under whom they have been placed, speak of them generally in
the highest terms as well instructed and attentive subordinates.
8. Teachers.— There has been no change in the staff of teachers since last
report. Bábú Durgá Dás Rái and Nándo Lál Ghos have continued to in-
struct their classes with the same zeal and energy which has already earned for
them the commendation of the Chief Commissioner. Bábú Jádab Kishan Ghos,
who joined the school late in 1869, has distinguished himself as a steady and
painstaking teacher of Anatomy and Surgery. 3rd Class Hospital Assistant
Diláwar Khán has given great assistance in the department of Anatomical teach-
ing. I would also bring to the favourable notice of the Chief Commissioner, the
services of 1st Class Hospital Assistant Mohammad Usmán, attached to the City
Hospital, who, although he receives no emolument from the school, has freely
given me his aid in the keeping of the books and accounts.
9. General working and progress during the year.—The general working of
the School, and the progress of the students has been fairly satisfactory. Bábú
Dúrgá Dás Rái reports that the attendance of the students of his class was
satisfactory, inasmuch as, with the exception of one student, no one was absent
without leave more than five times during the Session. The Bábú gave one
hundred and twelve lectures and held thirty-one examinations, and every oppor-
tunity was taken of instructing the students clinically in the wards of the City
Hospital; they also attended post-mortem examinations of fatal cases of disease.
Bábú Durgá
Dás Rái has also given fifty-five lectures on Elementary Physi-
ology which cannot have been otherwise than advantageous.
10. Bábú Nándo Lal Ghos gave one hundred and forty lectures on
Materia-Medica and sixty-four in Chemistry, inclusive of examinations in either
subject. The Bábú speaks highly of the diligence, attention, and respectful con-
duct of his pupils.
11. Bábú Jádáb Kishán Ghos lectured one hundred and nineteen times on
Anatomy, and held thirty-seven examinations on the same subject, and seventy-one
bodies were dissected during the year,—thirty-one by the students, and forty
for the illustration of lectures The students have manifested an interest in dis-
section, and their attendance in the dissecting room has been good. In Surgery
the Bábú delivered ninety-five lectures, and held thirty-four examinations. At
many of these I have been present, and I am therefore able fully to confirm the
following statement quoted from his report: " I have tried to make my
lectures " as practical as possible by the recital of cases from my own practice, or that I
" h a v e o b s e r v e d i n t h e p r a c t i c e o f o t h e r s , a n d I h a v e a l w a y s a v o i d e d s p e a k i n g o f
" mere surgical curiosities not daily seen in the practice of our own profession,
" which would only tend to bewilder the pupils" Bábú Jádáb Kishán Ghos