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4. The following abstract shows the attendance in the Lower or
Hindustani Class of students :—
Government
Medical
Pupils.
Government
Hakims.
Local Stu-
dents.
University
Students.
Mission Stu-
dents.
TOTAL.
Present on 1st Apri1 1879 ...
66
11
20
...
4
101
Entered during the year
...
8
13
15
2
1
39
Total
...
74
24
35
2
5
140
Passed out ...
17
1 3
...
...
21
Dis missed ..
7
8 9
...
...
24
Left ...
2
...
1
1 ...
4
Died ...
1
...
...
...
...
1
Total left during the year
...
27
9
13
1
...
50
Remaining on 31st March 1880
47
15
22
1 5
90
This statement also exhibits a diminution in the number of pupils attend-
ing, compared with the previous year ; but the decrease has occurred solely in
the section of Government pupils in training for the Military Class of Hospital
Assistants. The Military Establishment being now full, the number of recruits
required during the next four or five years will be small.
5. It will be observed from the above statement that, while only 21 of the
students of the Lower or Hindustani Class passed out of the School, 28 were
dismissed or left of their own accord. The proportion of Hakims and Local
students dismissed is much larger than that of the Military Class. The principal
cause of this probably is, as stated by the Principal, that the future prospects
of Hakims and Local students are at present less favorable than those of the
Military Class ; but as District Committees and other local authorities become
more fully impressed with the importance of closer attention to sanitary
arrangements, and of an extension of their medical system, there will probably
be an improvement in this respect.
6. The results of the examinations of the third-year students of the Assistant
Surgeon Class, who at that period of these curriculums pass their final examin-
ation in Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry and Materia Medica, seem fair.
Of 9 examined, 6 obtained more than half the number of marks required, 3
of them obtaining two-thirds and 1 more than three-fourths of the full number.
At the final examination, When the students of the same class who
have completed the curriculum of five years are finally examined in Medicine,
Surgery, Medical Jurisprudence and Midwifery, the results seem remarkably
good. It is observed that all the 11 students examined obtained more than
half the required number of marks ; 2 only obtained less than two-thirds,
4 gained more than three-fourths, and 2 reached the unusual proportion
of four-fifths. As the Examiners for this examination were all Professors of the
Grant Medical College, Bombay, and quite unconnected with the pupils, the
Principal justly claims the result as most creditable to the Lahore Medical
School. All the students who passed this examination have entered the service
of Government as Assistant Surgeons.
7. The results of the final examination of the students of the Hindustani
Class seem also very fair. Of 24 students (inclusive of 1 Hakim student
and 3 Local students) only 4 failed to obtain half the required num-
ber of marks, 15 obtained upwards of two-thirds, and of these 8 got upwards of
three-fourths the full number. The pupil that headed the list obtained
seventeen-eighteenths, and the second seven-eighths, of the full number.
8. The results of these examinations may be taken as good evidence that
the Lahore Medical School continues to do good work in turning out men
with good professional qualifications from both the English and Hindustani
Classes.