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MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE.
and is now studying at Netley. And another old student, Assistant Surgeon C. H.
Eyles, has sent us a copy of a book he has published on “ Malarial Fever as met
with on the Gold Coast,” which has been favorably reviewed in the Lancet of 16th
October 1886.
Second Department.— This department includes forty-four civil hospital ap¬
prentices, two Colonial apprentices and eighteen female students, making a total
of sixty-four. From the class reports, these students seem to be equal in general
intelligence and industry to apprentices of former years. With the exodus of
the outgoing batch of this year, the number of students receiving stipends from
Government will be reduced to thirteen.
Civil Hospital Apprentice I. Venkatasawmy, who failed at the Final exami-
nation last year in Ophthalmology, and was recommended by the Board of Examiners
to have a course of three months at the Iye Infirmary, was re-examined in October
and found qualified.
Primary and Final Examinations.— These lasted from the 13th to 22nd June,
both days inclusive, and were conducted by. a Board of Examiners composed of—
President :
Brigade-Surgeon S. B. HUNT.
Members :
Surgeon-Major A. H. LEAPINGWELL.
Surgeon-Major J. LANCASTER, M.D.
Primary Examination.—Four female and twelve private students (the latter
with the sanction of the Director of Public Instruction) appeared for this exami-
nation. Of this number, three female and eleven private students passed, all of
whom were placed in the second class.
Final Examination.—Thirty-one civil hospital apprentices, one Colonial hospital
apprentice, three female students and eight private students, who had passed the
first L.M.S. examination, appeared for this examination. Of these, twenty-six
passed, eleven of them being placed in the first class.
Chemists and Druggists.— No candidate for this certificate appeared for exami-
nation this year, the new rule (G.O., No. 588, of 10th September 1886) having come
into force requiring a two years’ course of Materia Medica and Chemistry as well
as a certificate of having passed at least the Middle School examination. The two
students who joined under this order seem to have made fair progress.
Female Students.—The number of female students has this year increased to
twenty-three against fourteen last year. Of these, nineteen are Europeans or
Eurasians and four are Native Christians. One of them is qualifying for the
M.B. degree, four for the L.M.S. and eighteen for the College certificate of
Medical Practitioner.
Miss D’Abreu, who passed the First M.B. examination in July last, goes up
next month for the Second M.B., and Miss Jaganathem and the two Misses Wells
will appear for the First L.M.S. examination.
At the Final examination for civil apothecaries, three female students appeared
for the certificate of Medical Practitioner, one passed.
Success of Past Female Students. —During the past year, Miss Ramsbotham
obtained charge of the Women’s Hospital at Durbungah on Rs. 150 a month with
free quarters. But with a national association for providing female medical aid to
the women of India, of which Her Excellency the Countess of Dufferin is Lady
President, the appointments are more numerous than the candidates qualified to
fill them.
The subjoined statement shows the number of lectures delivered during the
session:—