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Hygiene and Physiology Laboratories at an estimated cost of Rs. 1,70,000
was sanctioned in 1907 and the classes for the First Class Health Officers
and candidates preparing for the B. S. Sc. degree of the University of
Madras were opened in 1914. The L. M. & S. degree was abolished
in 1925. The grade of Lady Apothecary was also abolished and
the period of study for the M.B., B.S. degree was extended to 5½ years
with the introduction of the 6 months pre-registration course. The College
at present affords instruction for the M.B., B.S. degree of the University
of Madras, for the B. S.Sc. degree, and Licentiate in Public Health, for
the Sanitary Inspectors, Chemists and Druggists, and for post-graduates
in various subjects.

     Candidates for admission to the College are selected annually by a
Committee appointed for the purpose, preference being given to those
domiciled in the Madras Presidency. Candidates seeking admission must
have completed 17 years of age on or before the date of registration as a
medical student. The number of seats ordinarily reserved for non-Madrasi
candidates is 11, 6 being earmarked for Travancore State, 2 for Cochin
State, 1 for Pudukottah Durbar and 2 for areas other than Travancore
and Cochin, preference being given to applicants from Banganapalli and
Sandur. The States of Travancore and Cochin are authorised to select
their own candidates provided they possess the minimum educational
qualifications. Additional seats, if available, are allotted to candidates
from Travancore and Cochin.

     Of the seats allotted to Madras candidates, 45 per cent. go to the
candidates from Telugu Districts, the same percentage to those from
Tamil Districts and the remaining 10 per cent to candidates from West
Coast; 41 per cent. being allotted to non-Brahmin Hindus, 17 per cent. to
Brahmins and Mohammedans each, an equal percentage to Christians,
Anglo-Indians and non-Asiatics, and the remaining 8 per cent. to other
communities including scheduled classes. Candidates from the same
community in the same linguistic area are selected according to their
educational qualifications. Generally 20 to 25 women students are
admitted every year; the question of reservation of seats for them is under
consideration.

     The number of students working at a time in a practical class does
not exceed 60.

     Twenty-two papers and 23 pamphlets or books on various subjects of
medical interest were published by the members of the staff during the
year 1936-37.

MEDICAL COLLEGE, VIZAGAPATAM (MADRAS).

     It is a Government institution which was founded by the Government
of Madras in 1923 in response to the wishes of the people of the Telugu
districts and is affiliated to the University of Madras for the M.B., B.S.
degree. The College opened on the 1st July 1923 with Departments of
Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, in the building
originally constructed for a Medical School by Maharani Lady Goday
Chittijanakiammah Gajapathi Rao Garu. The building proved insufficient