MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE.
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Female Students.
making a total of 83 students.
During the year two students, owing to long continued ill-health, had leave
given them to proceed to their native country. Civil Hospital Apprentice E. K.
Peters died and Colonial Hospital Apprentice H. Rappa, a very promising youth,
was drowned in the Cooum river in December last.
6.
Thirty-three apprentices and three female candidates appeared for the
First or Primary examination conducted by officers
unconnected with the college. Three Hospital
Apprentices appeared for their Final examination
along with three Female candidates. Of the 33 candidates who presented them
selves for the Primary examination, all, without exception, obtained more than half
marks; but in the case of the three following candidates, the Examining Medical
Board found that each one of them, while securing more than half marks on the
whole, failed to obtain the required one-third marks in one subject only. As they
have done remarkably well in all other subjects, the College Council has recom
mended that they be permitted to enter on their third year's study, with the
proviso that they be required to attend a course on the subjects they failed in
before the Examining Committee and that they be permitted to go up again for
examination next year in the one subject in which they failed: —
Surgeon-Major S. B. Hunt, President.
Surgeon W. E. Johnson,
Members
Do. J. Lancaster,
Civil Hospital Apprentice C. Dastgár Khán
Do. do. V. Sivalingum.
Private student Miss W. Jacobsz.
All the students of the college who appeared for the final examination, includ
ing Misses Smith, Yerbury and Stewart, passed very creditably. Of those who
went up for the Primary examination 33 passed and 3 failed.
Many of the students of this class, besides appearing for the departmental
examinations, purpose appearing some for the First and others for the Final
examination for the L.M. and S. Degree. One Apprentice will appear for the
Preliminary Scientific examination of the Madras University.
The reports of the Professors on this class of students are also on the whole
very favorable.
7. Lady Students.—There are eleven lady students under training. Four
of these are in the First or Senior or University department. The others are
qualifying for the Medical Practitioners' certificate of the college.
Mrs. VanIngen, of the L.M. Class, in her fourth year of study, has acquitted
herself well. She gets a prize in Medical Jurisprudence, the Bharati Lakshmi
Gold Medal for Midwifery (this medal is competed for only by female students)
and a certificate for Surgery.
Miss D'Abreu of the M.B. Class, in her third year of study, gets a certificate
in Surgery and a prize in Practical Anatomy. Miss Yerbury gets Lady Hobart's
prize in Midwifery and two certificates. Misses Stewart and Smith obtain each a
certificate for Midwifery, Medical Jurisprudence and Surgery. Miss Jacobsz
receives a certificate for Practical Pharmacy. Miss Gurdial Sing a certificate for
the same subject, so that on the whole this class merits commendation
.
8. The statement subjoined shows the number of lectures delivered during
the Winter and Summer terms as well as the number of examinations that were
held during the year: —