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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
between Messrs. Saldanha and Winckler of the same department, they being equal.
The Government Medal fell to V. Venkayya, the student of the Hospital Assistant
grade who passed first at the Final Examination. The competition did not include any
student from the College.
8. Receipts and Disbursements.—The cost of the College 1880-81 estimated
according to G.O., No. 965, dated the 31st May 1881, amounted to Rs. 69,596-10-7,
and Rs. 8,744-15-9 were received in fees and from other sources.
9. Library and Museum. —Fifty-seven books were added to the Library and
64 pathological specimens to the Museum.
10. Remarks by the Professors and proposals by the Principal.—I find it convenient
to take these two subjects together. The proposals of Dr. King are lettered from (a)
to (m). It is questionable whether specific recommendations such as these should have
found a place in the annual report. Some of the proposals do not affect the scheme
of studies or general organization of the institution and may perhaps be disposed of
by Government in their order on the report. They may be specified thus—
(a) that the College be closed for the Government Easter vacation only
(d) that female students pay fees ;
(f) that four Demonstrators in Anatomy be appointed from senior students ;
(g) that an additional Assistant be appointed
;
(h) that a Junior Surgeon be appointed to the General Hospital as a fourth
clinical teacher ; and
(i) that an operating theatre be built at the General Hospital.
11. Proposal (a) I beg to support as the reasons given seem to me cogent, but
( d) seems premature. So far from placing any check upon the attendance of such
students, I would prefer to encourage it by liberal stipends. Professor Keess' proposal
to appoint Assistant Demonstrators rests apparently on strong grounds and is supported
by the Principal to the extent of employing four instead of six Demonstrators as
suggested by Dr. Keess. The cost of Rs. 120 for each session is trifling.
Dr. Cockerell makes out a strong case for the appointment of an additional Assist
ant in Surgery, but the cost of the measure is not stated. Should, however, the sanction
already given for the appointment of a Junior Surgeon in the General Hospital be
given effect to, I presume that there would be no objection to this officer in
addition to Clinical teaching acting as Assistant Professor of Surgery. If funds can
be provided in the Medical Budget, I would gladly support Dr. Keess' proposal to
build an operating theatre, but no funds are available from the Educational Building
Fund.
12. The other proposals which involve material changes in the curriculum are
as follow :-
(b) That certain courses of lectures not required for the Madras University
Degrees of L.M.S. and M.B. and C.M. be omitted from the curricula of
the junior and senior sections of the Senior Department.
(c) That certificates qualifying for examination for the License in Medicine
and. Surgery be not issued to candidates, but forwarded to the Registrar
of the University.
(e) That Professors in. future appointed to chairs from which, by University
or other requirements, two courses of lectures are delivered be expected
to provide two separate courses instead of one repeated.
(j) That the Surgery course be combined into one extending from October
to the close of the Summer Session.
(k) That the courses in Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children be
similarly amalgamated.
(1) That the first two-fifths of the lectures in Chemistry be devoted to Chemical
Physics and the last fifth to Elementary Organic Chemistry.
(m) That two courses in Medical Jurisprudence be delivered in future ; one in
the Winter Session to students of the Senior and Second Department, and
the other to the Junior Department students in the Summer Session.
All these proposals are more or less radical in their character and should not,
I think, be sanctioned without mature deliberation, and so far as (b), (e), (j), (k) (1) and