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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
19.
Expenditure and Receipts. —The total expenditure of the college for the
official year 1884-85 amounts to Rs. 67,359-5-11, and the receipts from fees, &c.,
during the same period amounted to Rs. 14,905, showing an increase of Rs. 1,408
over last year's receipts.
20.
Fees.—From the time of the introduction of the system of payment of fees
for tuition up to the present year, Rs. 74,683 have been credited to Government.
The following statement shows receipts since the introduction of the fee system:—
RS
In 1878-79
4,115
„ 1879-80
5,920
„ 1880-81
8,744
„ 1881-82
12,350
„ 1882-83
14,068
„ 1883-84
13,497
„ 1884-85
14,905
1885—up to June 1885
1 084
Total
74,683
There is every prospect that in the course of a very few years even if the
institution does not become fully self-supporting, it is likely to pay about half its
expenses at least.
21.
Professors and Assistant Professors. —I take this opportunity of cordially
thanking the Professors and Assistant Professors of the college for the help they
have on all occasions willingly rendered me in matters affecting the interests and
welfare of the college and its students.
Very soon we shall lose the services of one who has done excellent work in
this institution for the last twenty-nine years. I allude to Honorary Surgeon
Wilkins, F.R.C.S., the able and zealous Demonstrator of Anatomy and the oldest
teacher in this college. By his retirement the students lose a most efficient,
experienced and patient teacher; the Professors, a conscientious fellow-worker; and
the Principal, a valuable personal assistant.
22.
Brief History of the College. —This college completes to-day the fiftieth
year of its existence. Since its establishment in 1835 the following have been
trained in it:-
1,523 have passed out as Medical subordinates for the services of Government;
24 have become Graduates of this college;
38 have taken University degrees;
32 have been partially educated here and left for further training in Europe;
making a total of 1,617.
From a small beginning as a Medical school, intended exclusively for the
education of young men for the Subordinate Medical service and officered by two
teachers and two assistants, it has, in the course of the half century, after many
difficulties and vicissitudes, gradually developed into a collegiate institution with a
staff of fourteen Professors and Lecturers and four Assistants. The work which,
at its start, consisted merely in imparting elementary instruction in Anatomy,
Surgery, Materia Medica and Medicine, is now such that it fits its students to take
Medical Degrees in India and qualifies them also for obtaining registrable diplomas
in England.
Although the advance so far must be gratifying to the Government, which has
fostered the institution from its infancy, and to the general public as well, yet
those responsible for its development and prosperity feel that there is need for
further advancement to keep it abreast with modern progress, and, if possible, in
the forefront of kindred schools in Great Britain and elsewhere.
Government has already sanctioned a sum of 75,000 rupees towards this object,
and when the amount is available, it will not take long before we shall have a
Physiological laboratory and a Museum and Laboratory of Hygiene in which
students can be better practically trained in work which will not only tend to
advance the healing art, but also the science of preventive medicine, a subject
justly reckoned in all civilized countries as one of the most important in the domain