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        number of cases attended during this month be less than
        twenty, the remainder must be attended as soon as possible
        thereafter.

   A certificate showing the number of cases of labour attended by the
student, in the maternity hospital and in the patients' homes respectively,
should he signed by a responsible medical officer on the staff of the hospital
and should state:—

        (i) That the student has personally attended each case during the
        course of labour, making the necessary abdominal and other
        examinations under the supervision of the certifying officer
        who should describe his official position;

        (ii) That satisfactory written histories of the cases attended, includ-
        ing when possible ante-natal and post-natal observations,
        were presented by the student and initialled by the super-
        vising officer.

   4. Admissions.—While all students are required to pass the Interme-
diate examination of an Indian University or its equivalent before admis-
sion to a medical college the large number of applications for the com-
paratively limited number of vacancies has made it necessary for all the
Colleges to appoint Selection Committees. Students are selected on their
merit and generally in accordance with the marks obtained in the Univer-
sity Intermediate examination; only Lucknow holds a College competitive
examination for selection of its students. At the Lady Hardinge Medical
College students are admitted from any part of India; at other medical
colleges seats are primarily reserved for local candidates, although by
arrangement with the States concerned the Medical College, Madras,
reserves a few seats for students of Southern India Indian States, seven
seats are reserved for Sind in the Grant Medical College, and five seats
for the Central Provinces in the Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical
College, Bombay. This provincial preference means that students of many
areas cannot obtain a higher medical education in India. Residents of
Indian States, Central Provinces, North-West Frontier Province, Delhi
and the Centrally Administered Areas are especially affected by this rigid
provincial selection and the time has come when the establishment of a
new medical college in Delhi or at some other central place must be
seriously considered. The desirability of having such a college becomes
all the more obyious when it is remembered that the students other than
those domiciled in the province in which a college is situated have to
pay prohibitive annual charges which vary from Rs. 400 per annum at the
Madras Medical College to Rs. 2,000 per annum at the King George's
Medical College, Lucknow. The King Edward Medical College, Lahore,
charges Rs. 850, the Grant Medical College, Bombay, Rs. 1,200 and the
Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, Rs. 1,500 per annum from
"foreign" students.

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