MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE.
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At the opening of the session there were on the rolls of the College 23 students
in the Senior Department, 68 in the Second Department including 4 female
students, and 63 in the Junior Department, in the aggregate 154 ; 63 of which
number were young men who joined the College for the first time.
SENIOR DEPARTMENT.
This Department is divided into two classes, one qualifying for the M.B. and
C.M. Degree of the Madras University and the other for the Licentiate Degree.
The strength of these classes is as given below :--
First Division, including students who go up for the M.B. and C.M. Degree.
In their Third Sessional year ...
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.. . 2
(One, a Government scholar and the other a private student).
In their Second year ...
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... 6
(One, a Government scholar, one a Lane scholar, and four
private students).
Second Division, composed of students qualifying for the degree
of Licentiate of Medicine and Surgery.
Number in their Third year of study ...
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... 5
Do. do. Second year of do. ...
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... 10
Messrs. A. Patch and C. E. Axelby having completed three years of study,
will go up in a few days for the first professional examination for the M.B. and
C.M. Degree. This examination Mr. R. Whitwell, a Government scholar, passed last
year successfully. Messrs. Newbigging, B.A., Staunton, Keys, Jesudasen, Blake
and Passanah passed in July last year the Preliminary Scientific Examination.
Mr. Albuquerque, who was unsuccessful at this examination, purposes presenting
himself again for it this year. Messrs. Henessey, Wilkins and White will in all
probability appear for the first professional examination for the Licentiate Degree
this month. Messrs. Thomson, Leach, and Lafranais entered College at the
opening of the session in October. They are ranked as second-year men, having
had previously to joining College a year's training at public hospitals, which, accord-
to University rules, is equivalent to the first year's professional training at College.
The rule allowing this may have to be cancelled and four year's attendance at
College made obligatory in consequence of the introduction of the fee system.
since submitting the last Annual Report the following students . disconnected
themselves with the College and proceeded to England to continue their medical
studies there :—
Messrs. J. Marsden.
R. Whitwell.
J. Burton.
Messrs. E. Keys.
A. V. Passanah.
H. Fretz.
Mr. Fonceca, a third-year student, left College and took up an appointment as
surgeon in a vessel taking emigrants to Port Natal with the intention of eventually
proceeding to England.
It gives me pleasure to be able to report favorably as regards the conduct of
the youths of this Department, and of the progress they have made on the whole in
their several classes. Excepting a few, their attention to their duties in the
dispensing room and wards of the General Hospital has, as well, been such as to
elicit approval.
It is to be regretted that students should at all be obliged to sever their
connection with this College and to proceed to Europe to complete their education.
Altogether seven members of the Senior Department have resigned this year,
rather an unusual number. Students leave, I believe, not from any impression on
their minds that the character of the education imparted at this College is inferior
to than given at home. The place taken by our students in the competitive
examination would alone prevent such a feeling; rather, I think it is imagined that
the Medical Degrees conferred by our local universities have not the same value
attached to them as those granted in Europe, One very potent reason urged in
support of this view is, I understand, that the degrees givenhere donot qualify for