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REPORT OF THE LAHORE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR
THE YEAR ENDING 31ST MARCH, 1868.
The Medical School, during the last year, has undergone but few changes. Su
c¬cessive Annual Reports have recorded its history, its mode of
working, and its numbers, year by year ; and last year a brief
review was taken of its progress since its first establishment.
U p t o t h e 3 1 s t M a r c h , 1 8 6 7 , w e h a d p a s s e d s i x S u b - A s s i s t a n t S u r g e o n s a n d 5 1
Native Doctors, and in last report, I expressed a hope that we should shortly pass 4 more
Sub-Assistant Surgeons, and 20 more Native Doctors. This hope was fulfilled. In April,
1867, we passed 16 Native Doctors, in July 4, in all 20, making the total number, since
the opening of the School in 1860, a period of nearly 8 years, 71. In July, we passed 4
Sub-Assistant Surgeons, making a total of 10 since the opening of the School. The
names of these men were Sahib Ditta, Bhawanee Dass, Jaswunt Roy and Haranchunder
B a n e r j e e . T h e f i r s t o f t h e s e m e n , S a h i b D i t t a , i s n o w H o u s e S u r g e o n t o t h e M e d i c a l
School Hospital, Bhawanee Dass is in charge of the Dispensary at Rawulpindi, Jas-
wunt Roy at Jugadri, and Haranchunder Bauerjee at Loodiana. All I believe are
doing well.
2. The total number of the English class students at present is 21, a few having
dropped off since the beginning of the year. Such fluctuations
are only temporary ; they are common to all educational institu
¬tions, for it always happens that a certain number of those who
commence their studies lack either the health or the perseverance to continue them to the
end. The full number of this class allowed by Government up to the beginning of last
official year was 25, for whom a monthly sum of Rs. 275 was granted for scholarships
and stipends.
3. In April last the Supreme Government gave their sanction to the admission
of fifteen more students, making the complement forty ; but, as
no more money was granted for scholarships, the limit has prac-
tically continued to be twenty-five, as before. An effort, how-
ever, is now being made to obtain the additional 15 men from the different districts of
the Punjab, as local students, whose education is to be paid for by the districts, at the
rate of Rs. 15 per mensem; from this, scholarships and stipends will be provided on the
same scale as to the Government students, the remainder being applied towards defraying
the various contingent expenses of the School. Already I have had some applications
from candidates for admission on these terms in October next. These men will of course
sign an agreement that they will return to their own districts to practise, and that, if they
leave the Medical School without permission of the Principal, they will refund to the
Deputy Commissioner of their district the whole of the money paid by him for their
education.
4. The complement of Government students of the Hindustani class is still 60,
and their actual number at present 57, besides which we have
18 local students, in all 75. These local students come from the
following districts, and in the following numbers from each,—
Syalkot 6, Lahore 4, Hoshiarpore 6 and Goordaspore 2. We have room for 12 more,
which would make ninety altogether in the Hindustani class. The local students of this
class sign an agreement similar to that to be signed by the local students of the English
class.
5. It appears to me that the value of the Medical School to the country is becom
¬ing daily greater, now that sanitary science is so essential a
part of the administration. All the students that have as yet
passed have been immediately employed, and 1 doubt not that
Number of passed stu-
dents.
Number of the English
Class.
Local students of the Eng-
lish class.
Number of the Hindus
¬tani class.
Importance of the insti-
tution.