MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE.
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Student LaFontaine has been several times absent from his classes. His case
was laid before the College Council, and it was decided that he should be recom-
mended for dismissal, as not likely to make a useful public servant.
LADY STUDENTS.—This day marks an epoch in the history of the Madras
Medical College. For the first time since its foundation its teachers have the
satisfaction of having carefully trained four ladies for the practice of the medical
profession. Having completed a regular course of study and fulfilled all the conditions
required of students of the Second Department, they pass out of College to-day with
certificates entitling them to practise the various branches of the profession. It is
simply their due that I should state publicly that during their collegiate career they
have been remarkable for their assiduity, regularity of attendance both at lectures
and hospitals, for the keen interest they have taken in their studies, and for their
strongly-marked desire to attain proficiency in every branch of the work they have
so nobly undertaken and brought to a successful issue,—virtues which have had
their reward, not only in the high places they have taken both in the class and pass
lists, but also in the remarkable fact that their proficiency has been seldom surpassed
by the alumni of this College.
During the past three years Mrs. Scharlieb has won prizes in the following
subject
s :–
Medicine,
Ophthalmology,
Surgery,
Hygiene, and
Chemistry,
Practical Chemistry ;
and Miss White in
Anatomy,
Chemistry ;
Medicine,
_
and Miss Beale in Chemistry ; and at the Final Examination they have, out of a
possible maximum of 890, secured the following marks :—
Miss D. White ...
...
...
...
...
...
... 738
Mrs. M. Scharlieb
...
...
...
... ...
728
Miss M. Beale
...
...
...
...
...
...
... 670
„
S. Mitchell
...
...
...
...
...
. . . . . . 580
With these facts and figures before you I do not think, Mr. President, Ladies
and Gentlemen here present, that I have said one word too many in praise of these
ladies, whom a Committee of Examiners have pronounced qualified to enter on the
practice of the profession. I feel certain that I echo the feeling of the whole
Presidency in wishing our Lady Doctors every success in their professional work,
especially in that large and unexplored field of labor, the women of India.
The following is the percentage of marks gained by the students of this Depart-
ment at the class examinations conducted at the close of the Winter and Summer
Sessions :–
Anatomy
...
. . .
. . . 61 ½
Medicine
... ...
. . .
61
Chemistry
...
...
... 33
Practical Chemistry ...
... 55
Physiology
...
...
... 26½
Practical Pharmacy ...
... 72
Materia Medica
...
... 61½
Minor Surgery
...
... 92
Surgery
...
...
... 55
The percentage in Physiology and Chemistry is low compared with that
gained in other subjects. This is owing to some of the students either obtaining no
marks at all or very low marks.
JUNIOR DEPARTMENT.
There were 44 students in the second-year class at the commencement of the
session, including 12 Mysore students. One death occurred.
This class appeared before the Final Examination Committee and were
examined : 39 are reported as having passed ; 4 having acquitted themselves
badly, have been rejected.
The Board's opinion of this class is that, with two or three doubtful exceptions,
they are unfit to hold an independent medical charge.
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