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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
going tuition in this department is steadily diminishing. In two years hence the
Second department, from which Apothecaries were hitherto recruited, will be
extinct, as, by G.O., No. 1966, dated 25th August 1884, it has been ruled that the
system of gratuitous education, which has been in force in this department since the
opening of this institution in 1835, be given up.
The three students who failed to obtain pass marks in one subject at the
Primary examination held last year
were re-examined in December last and
reported to have passed, one of them
obtaining half-marks, and the other two
one-third each.
Primary and Final Examinations.—Fifteen Civil and Colonial Hospital
Apprentices, one female student, and one private student went up for the first, or
primary, examination, and twenty Civil and Colonial Hospital Apprentices, and six
private students appeared for their final, or pass, examination. This number
includes five candidates who had already passed the first L.M. and S. examination
and were, on that ground, exempted by the Director of Public Instruction from
going up for the primary test of the Second department.
The examination was, as usual, conducted by a Board of Medical officers
appointed by Government in G.O., No. 159, dated 4th March 1885, and composed
as follows:—
Surgeon-Major S . B. HUNT,
President.
Surgeon-Major W. E. JOHNSON, M.D.,
Members.
Surgeon-Major J. LANCASTER, M.B. and C.M.,
Of seventeen candidates who appeared for the Primary examination, sixteen
passed; of these, four were placed in the first class, one being Miss C. Graham, the
holder of the Bharati Lakshmi scholarship. Of twenty-six who appeared for the
final, twenty-five passed (three in the first class) and one failed. Civil Hospital
Apprentice I. Venketasawmy, who failed in Ophthalmology, is recommended by the
Board of Examiners to have a course of three months at the Eye Infirmary and to be
re-examined in this subject at the end of that time.
Chemist and Druggist Class .—Of the four candidates that went up for the
Druggist diploma, three passed.
The reports of the several Professors on the Second department students are,
on the whole, creditable to them.
Lady Students .—Seven lady students entered the college on the opening of the
session in October last, thus increasing the number under training to fourteen. Of
these, one is qualifying for the M.B. and C.M. degree, four for the L.M. and S.
degree, and nine for the Medical Practitioner's certificate.
Miss D'Abreu will present herself next month for the first M.B. and C.M.
examination. Miss A. Das, who passed the first L.M. and S. examination suc-
cessfully last year, will probably present herself next year for the second L.M.
and S. examination.
On the whole the lady students have made good progress in their studies and
are favorably reported on by their teachers.
Past Lady Students .—It is very encouraging to be able to report that most of
the ladies who have passed out of the college are now holding good appointments
in different parts of the country. Of the batch that first passed out in 1878, it is
hardly necessary to refer to Mrs. Scharlieb who holds the honorable position of
lecturer in Midwifery to the female students in this college, and also that of
Superintendent of the Victoria Caste Hospital.
Miss Dora White has, for several years past, been carrying on a most success-
ful practice amongst the Muhammadan women in the populous city of Hyderabad.
Besides having charge of a large dispensary there, she is medical attendant to the
ladies of the zenana of His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad. She has recently
gone to England for the purpose of obtaining an English diploma.
Mrs. Mary Lonorgun (formerly Miss Beale) is employed in Oodeypore, the
capital of Meywar in Rajahpootana, as medical adviser to the zenana of His
highness the present Mahar ānā Futte Singh. She receives a salary of Rs. 225,
Civil Hospital Apprentice R. Sivalingam.
Do. do. C. Dustigher Khan.
Female Student Miss Jacobsz.