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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
Subjects
Meetings. Lectures. Examinations.
Proportion
of exam
ination to
meetings.
Medicine
110
75
35
1 in 3
Surgery and Operative Surgery
132
94
38
1 in 3
Ophthalmology
46
29
17
1 in 3
Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children
126
87
39
1 in 3
Do. do. Female class
144
96
48
1 in 3
Chemistry
109
88
21
1 in 5
Anatomy
111
67
44
1 in 2¾
Physiology
91
65
26
1 in 3½
Materia Medica
105
70
35
1 in 3½
Botany
68
41
27
1 in 2½
Pathology
62
43
19
1 in 3
Hygiene
64
45
19
1 in 3
Comparative Anatomy
45
30
15
1 in 3
Medical Jurisprudence
84
61
23
1 in 3
Histology
18
Elementary Physiology
18
12
6
1 in 3
Do. Materia Medica
18
9
9
1 in 2
Dental Surgery
16
Practical Pharmacy
19
Do. Chemistry
27
9. Remarks by the Professor of Medicine and Clinical .Medicine. —The same
plan of Clinical instruction which has been found to work satisfactorily for the
past two years has been continued this session also. Students N. Parakh, S.
Parthasarthy and H. D'Mello deserve to be specially mentioned as good clinical
observers and for their painstaking work in the wards. Microscopic examinations
have been more frequent this year, owing to the kindness of Surgeon-General
Furnell, who sanctioned the issue of two microscopes for use by students attending
the clinique of the Medical wards of the General Hospital.
10.
Midwifery. —The lectures on this subject to the Female class were deli
vered by Mrs. Scharlieb, a graduate of the London University. This lady takes the
class also on the subject of Diseases of Women and Children. She entered on her
duties as a lecturer on the 6th October 1884.
Remarks by Mrs. Scharlieb, Lecturer on Midwifery to the Female Class. —"This is the first
year that I have had the honor to be lecturer, and I see several points on which I hope in
future to improve.
"The real raison d'etre of women doctors is that they are specially needed in India in the
departments of Midwifery and Diseases of Women. To fulfil this indication satisfactorily they
need more theoretical instruction than they can command in one session or Annus Medicus, and
more practical instruction than can fall to their share as members of so large a class as that
which attends the Lying-in Hospital.
"I would therefore beg to suggest that, in future, female students, both in the final and
penultimate years of study, may be permitted to attend the systematic lectures, and also that
all who can, should attend the Victoria Hospital for Caste and Gosha Women (to be shortly
opened), where they may have more opportunities of seeing diseases peculiar to women."
This suggestion seems to be a good one. Female students, considering the
class of patients to which they, as a rule, would be called upon to afford medical
advice, should have special facilities, such as those recommended by Mrs.
Scharlieb, in order to their becoming thoroughly competent for work for which this class
was mainly instituted.
Professor Branfoot reports that "the conduct of this class in college has
been good, but while at the Lying-in Hospital several of these students were
wanting in proper discipline and respect to constituted authority." This matter
was submitted to the Director of Public Instruction in February last, with an
explanatory letter from the students referred to, but the result of the reference
is not known.
11.
Bharati Lakshmi Scholarship. —The first holder of this scholarship is Miss
C. Graham who passed the Higher Examination for Women in the first class in 1883.
His Highness the Maharajah of Travancore, no doubt, would be pleased to learn