MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE.
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displayed much interest in the exercises. Lawn-tennis, cricket, and boating also
had a fair share of attention.
In the early part of the session, a Volunteer company of medical students
was organized and, after undergoing the necessary amount of instruction in drill
and rifle practice, it was incorporated with the Madras Volunteer Guards and
now constitutes No. 7, or Medical College, company. It musters 51 strong and its
Lieutenant is Dr. Edgar Thurston.
Students' Clubs .—A Medical Students' Association was started on the 4th
December 1885, and 52 students enrolled themselves as members. Since its
inauguration, eleven meetings were held, at each of which a paper was read and
discussed. A Students' Journal has also come into existence, two numbers of
which have been published. It is to be hoped that all who are indebted to this
college for their education, and others who are its well-wishers, will contribute
pecuniarily and otherwise to the support of the new society and journal and that
both will long exist and be the means of uniting teachers and students, as well as
all past and present students, for the common objects of interchanging ideas and
keeping alive a feeling of sympathy for each other.
On the recommendation of Surgeon-General Furnell, C.I.E., the Government
authorized the transfer, from the office of the Surgeon-General, of five portraits (one
being a duplicate) of four former Physicians-General of this presidency, all of whom
were, more or less, notable in their day; namely, Doctors Anderson, Wyllie, Currie
and Harris. As the proposed alterations to the college buildings are soon to be
undertaken, it has not yet been decided where these portraits are to be perma
nently hung up. For the present, they have been placed in the museum of the
college.
Library .—The library has been enriched by the addition of 55 new and
valuable works and the total number of books, in both Professors' and Students'
library, has now risen to 6,992.
The subjoined list shows the number of books on each subject which were
taken out by the students, and gives an idea of the extent of their reading: —
Medicine
48
Surgery
37
Medical Jurisprudence
7
Ophthalmology
11
Hygiene
9
Physiology
35
Anatomy
46
Materia Medica
31
Botany
21
Chemistry
27
A supplemental list of books, which were recently received, has been printed
and added to the catalogue this year.
Museum .—Forty-four morbid specimens were contributed during the past year.
Honorary-Surgeon Karney having, on the retirement of Mr. Wilkins, taken up the
duties of Senior Assistant, the Pathological museum was transferred from his care
to that of Mr. Robertson.
Expenditure and Receipts.—The aggregate expenditure, during the past official
year 1885-86, amounted to Rs. 67,496-2-0 and the receipts for the same period, by
fees, to Rs. 17,104, showing an excess of Rs. 2,199 over last year's receipts.
After June 1888, the stipends now paid to Civil Hospital Apprentices will,
owing to the extinction of the Second department, lapse to Government and thereby
an annual saving of Rs. 14,000 will be effected. If no material addition to the
college establishment be made during the next two years, the total yearly expendi
ture will gradually be reduced from Rs. 67,496 to 53,500, or thereabouts.
The fees during the past five years have steadily risen; they were
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RS.
In 1881-82
8,744
„ 1882-83
12,350
„ 1883-84
13,497
„ 1884-85
14,905
„ 1885-86
17,104
showing that, in the course of five years, the fees have been almost doubled.