(6)
21. From the above statement it appears that the medical pupils have
been greatly diminished in number; only 8 have been received last year instead
of 25 who came in the year previous, and a letter from the Surgeon-General
Indian Medical Department, states that only 6 will be sent during the year
1880. A much larger number could be taught at the Medical School to
become Hospital Assistants if necessary. It is also evident that there were
altogether 101 pupils present on the 1st of April 1879, and that 39 were
admitted during the year, making altogether 140 pupils, of whom 21 passed
their final examination successfully, 1 died, and 28 were dismissed for various
causes, making a loss of 50 students and reducing the total number to 90.
But, while of the 74 medical pupils 17 passed their final examination, 1 died and
9 were discharged, out of the 24 Hakim students only 1 passed his final exami-
nation successfully and 9 were dismissed; while of the local students, 35 in
number, 3 passed, 1 left from ill-health and 9 were dismissed. The proportion
of Hakim and local students dismissed is much larger than that of the Military
Class; but this is occasioned partly by the fact that the Military Class spend a
year in employment at the regimental hospitals or civil dispensaries, during
which time many of the more incompetent or unsuitable are removed before they
come to the Medical School; and, secondly, the competition for the students is
more limited in the Hakim and local classes, since the former are restricted to
the relatives of Hakims and the latter to the inhabitants of a peculiar district;
but one of the principal causes is that the future prospects of Hakims and local
students are less favorable than those of the Military Class, since the former
receive no pay when their education is completed and the latter depend for
their remuneration on the local committees of their respective districts; hence
they are more easily dissatisfied with their studies, and often cease to learn and
thus become dismissed.
22. Arrangement of the teaching in the Medical School .
1
st .— The English Class. —The students of this class study during the
first three years the following subjects
: —
Anatomy, both by lectures and actual dissections, for which an abundant
supply of subjects is usually obtained from the Mayo Hospital, the Central
Jail and the Lunatic Asylum, Lahore.
Dr. Lawrie teaches this subject, assisted in the dissecting room by
Mahomed Hussain Khan. The lectures are continued during both the
winter and summer months, but the dissection only occurs from the middle of
October to the end of March.
23. Chemistry .—This subject is taught by Dr. Center, who lectures on
Chemistry, including the elements of Physics and their application to Medicine,
during the winter months, and in the summer gives demonstrations on practi-
cal chemistry, in which the students are taught to detect all the common
acids and bases, to analyse drinking waters, and to ascertain the presence of all
common poisons.
24. Physiology .—This subject is taught by the Principal in a series of
lectures and microscopical demonstrations, which are continued all the year
round.
Botany
.
—The lectures on this subject are also given by the Principal, and
the students receive practical instruction in the Botanical Garden; but these
lectures are only given during the winter months.
25. Lastly, Materia Medica .—This subject is taught by Dr. Center during
the summer months only. The students also learn practical Pharmacy in the
Mayo Hospital during the same time by dispensing the medicines for the
patients.
26. The civil medical pupils undergo the same course, excepting that they
are not required to study Botany or to attend the demonstrations of practi-
cal chemistry, and they are only employed during two years, instead of three
years, in the above studies.