MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE.
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13. Expenditure and Receipts.—The expenditure was Rs. 81,185-6-2 against
Rs. 69,596-10-7 in 1880-81, and the receipts from fees, &c., amounted to Rs. 12,350,
the highest figure yet reached being Rs. 3,605 in excess of those of the previous
year.
14. I beg to append copy of a memorandum forwarded to me by Dr. King,
showing the changes introduced or recommended for introduction by him during his
Principalship which began in May 1880. The alterations entered between brackets
are those of the latter description.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
H. B. GRIGG,
Director of Public Instruction.
From Surgeon-Major J. KEESS, M.D., M.R.C.P.L., Acting Principal, Medical College,
to H. B. GRIGG, Esq., M.A.., Director of Public Instruction, dated Madras,
20th July 1882, No. 216.
I have the honor to forward herewith the Medical College Report for the year
1881-82, together with certain appendices as per subjoined list.
2. The proposals by the Professor of Hygiene, in regard to the objects required
to render the teaching more efficient and the establishment of a museum as suggested,
were submitted for orders in my letter No. 173, dated 27th ultimo.
3. The suggestion made by the Professor of Midwifery for amalgamating the
course of lectures on Disease of Women and Children with the Midwifery lectures
has been noticed in my report and awaits your orders. The proposal was submitted
last year also, and was favorably viewed by the Committee appointed under G.O.,
No. 314, dated 24th September 1881.
4. Dr. Maitland's proposal as regards the time taken up for the instruction of
the Practical Pharmacy classes will be attended to when the time-table for the
Summer session of 1882-83 is being prepared.
5. The Professor of Physiology brings to notice, this year also, the need he
has for an Assistant. I observe that Dr. King has recommended that one be
appointed. I agree with Dr. King as to the necessity for an addition to the staff
of subordinate teachers, more so as it is likely that the
Government will approve of the suggestion of the College
Council to make over entirely the teaching of all the classes
of the Junior Department to the College Assistants. In the meantime, I beg to
suggest for your favorable consideration and sanction that Mr. Hamilton, Assistant
to the Professor of Chemistry, be appointed to assist the Professor of Physiology as
well, as he has more time at his disposal than any other Assistant.
6. In the event of Government assenting to the recommendation to appoint an
Assistant in addition to the present number, I would suggest that one be selected
from the grade of Assistant Apothecary (Civil) and that the pay accord with the
rate fixed for the grade, with an allowance of Rs. 50 per mensem.
Memorandum showing Changes which have been made (or will, it is expected, be made) at the
Medicaid College within the last two Years.
1. Medicine.—Two distinct courses of lectures have been delivered in Medicine instead of
one repeated. By this change each disease has been more fully treated ; and the subject of
Insanity has been, it is believed for the first time, introduced into the course
2. [This change, which was merely a personal one, has been made permanent, with the
proviso that each of the two distinct courses shall include a few introductory lectures, the same
in both years.]
Vide letter, No. 176, dated
5th July 1882.
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