MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE.
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with free quarters and carriage allowance, and she has also charge of a hospital
for women and children, which has become so popular as to be attracting a yearly
attendance of 9,210 patients. From a letter which is appended to this report, it
will be seen what valuable services she is rendering to the women of Meywar. She
writes:—"My work at the first start was very uphill and required great
patience, and was often very disheartening, but it is far from that now; it is most
encouraging."
Mrs. Small (formerly Miss Susan Mitchell) is the only one of this batch who
does not hold a medical appointment.
Of those who passed out subsequently, Mrs. VanIngen, who has the honor of
being the first Medical graduate of this University, has been appointed to the
medical charge of the Lady Dufferin's dispensary for women and children in
Calcutta, on a salary of Rs. 300 per mensem, with free quarters. Mrs. VanIngen
says that this institution, which was opened only on the 8th April last, has now a
daily average of from seventy to eighty patients, and that the number is increasing
week by week. Miss Esther Smith has charge of a similar hospital in Ulwar,
Rajahpootana, on a salary of Rs. 125, rising to Rs. 150. She has already made a
successful beginning at Ulwar and is rapidly gaining the confidence of those around
her to the great satisfaction of those who are interested in the career of these young
ladies. Miss Stewart has accepted an appointment offered her by the Begun of
Bhopal on a monthly salary of Rs. 200, rising by annual increments to Rs. 300.
Miss Ramsbottom is employed as resident medical officer of the Military Female
Orphan Asylum on Rs. 70 per mensem with free quarters. Miss Yerbury is work-
ing as assistant medical missionary in Khetri (Rajahpootana) under an American
lady-doctor and draws a salary of Rs. 100.
With the untiring efforts now being made in the cause of female medical aid
for the women in India by the National Association and its Lady-President (Her
Excellency the Countess of Dufferin) there is no doubt that all women who have
the necessary qualifications will soon be provided with suitable appointments. It
is, moreover, confidently hoped that the day is not far distant when the inhabitants
of every district and town of Southern India will enjoy the benefits of having in
their midst a well-trained lady-doctor from this or some other Indian college.
The statement subjoined shows the number of lectures delivered during the
session:—
Meetings. Lectures. Examina
tions.
Percentage of
Examinations
to Meetings.
Medicine
110
73
37
1 to 3
Surgery
140
105
35
1 to 4
Ophthalmology
44
30
14
1 to 3
Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children
124
87
37
1 to 2·3
Do. do. to Female students
143
111
32
1 to 4·4
Chemistry
108
90
18
1 to 6
Anatomy
109
67
42
1 to 2·6
Physiology
78
54
24
1 to 3·25
Materia Medica
105
71
34
1 to 3
Botany
56
32
24
1 to 2·3
Pathology
62
43
19
1 to 3
Medical Jurisprudence
62
38
24
1 to 3
Hygiene
61
43
18
1 to 3
Comparative Anatomy
44
30
14
1 to 3
Elementary Materia Medics. and Pharmacy
17
11
6
1 to 2·8
Do. Physiology
18
12
6
1 to 3
Practical Chemistry
26
19
7
1 to 3·7
Do. Pharmacy
20
Histology
18
Remarks by Professors. —Referring to the Chemist and Druggist class, Professor
Maitland makes the following remarks :
—
"I beg strongly to recommend that some alteration should be made in regard to the
Chemist and Druggist class. I believe their backwardness to be, in a great measure, due to
their lack of preliminary training, and I would recommend that the preliminary test, in their
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