MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE.
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First L.M. and S.
78
Second do.
34
Preliminary Scientific
15
First M.B. and C.M.
3
Second do.
2
Total
132
During the east five years the numbers were as given below :—
In 1881
31
„ 1882
29
„ 1883
38
„ 1884
75
„ 1885
116
In the same quinquennial period it will be observed that the strength of the
Senior or University department steadily increased year to year as will be seen
from the following figures :—
1881-82
82
1882-83
88
1883-84
113
1884-85
124
1885-86
134
This year two more students of the Senior department, viz., N. Subramani
Iyer and M. Srinivasa Row, and a former student, A. R. Vaidianadam Iyer,
and C.M., went up for the degree of M.A., taking Biology as their pass subject. All
three were successful.
A young Brahmin, named Venkatarungacharri, a Tinnevelly landlord, has
been studying in this college for the past two years and he intends going up next
month for the first L.M. and S. examination. This is the first instance, within
my knowledge, of a landlord taking to the study of medicine from a love of it.
The Registrar of the Scottish Branch of the General Medical Council, Edin
burgh, has intimated that candidates who have passed for the M.B. and C.M. and
L.M. and S. degrees of the Madras University will, in future, be exempted from
going up for the first and second Professional examinations for the "Triple
qualification" of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Looking to the high standard which our Bachelors of Medicine and Licen
tiates in Medicine and Surgery have to reach in order to obtain their respective
degrees, this concession, important as it is, cannot be considered otherwise than as
well-merited, and its bestowal may be accepted as proof of the growing estimation
in which this college is held. A further recognition of this fact was afforded by
the selection, not long ago, of Dr. Jesudasen Pillay, M.A., an ex-student of this
college, to fill the responsible post of Health Officer of this city.
G.O., dated 30th November 1885, M.D., No. 6795, sanctions the following
change, namely, that vacancies in the Warrant Medical Branch be henceforth filled
up by Medical graduates. This will provide a small, but steady, outlet for some
of our unemployed Medical graduates.
As the careful character of the training given to the students of this college
comes to be known, and more and more appreciated, it is to be hoped that all who
leave this college, with University degrees, will find abundant scope for their
energies by obtaining employment, not only in the Government service, but under
Local Fund and Municipal Boards, Railway Companies, in Coffee and other estates,
under Emigration Agencies, and in private practice. Those possessing the
ability, with the means to enable them to go to England, may find it to their
advantage to proceed thither for further study.
Success of Past Students. —Within the past year three former pupils of this
college succeeded in gaining commissions, two in the Royal Navy, viz., Messrs. P.
E. Maitland and W. J. Winckler, and one, G. H. Barefoot, in the Army Medical
Department.
Second Department. —At the commencement of the session there were 71
male and five female students belonging to this department. The number under-