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those trained for the State Board Examination, 75 candidates for Sanitary
Inspectors' certificate and a class of Lady Health Visitors.

       48 students are admitted to the College each year. Candidates desirous
of admission to the College must have passed the Intermediate Examina-
tion in Science with Chemistry, Physics and Biology of the Board of
High School and Intermediate Education, United Provinces, or Rajputana
(including Ajmer-Merwara), Central India and Gwalior, or the Intermediate
Examination of an Indian University incorporated by any law for the
time being in force. Selection is made by means of a competitive exami-
nation called the Pre-medical Test. Candidates are also examined physi-
cally. Two seats are reserved for women students and 3 for students
from Indian States and other provinces which have no medical colleges
of their own, provided that such a student obtains one of the first 48
places at the Pre-medical test and the Provincial Government or the
Indian State concerned agrees (i) to pay an annual capitation charge of
Rs. 2,000 per student, the student being required to pay the ordinary
fees like other students and (ii) to recruit its medical service from the
graduates of the Lucknow University.

       The number of students working at a time in a practical class does
not exceed 100 in Anatomy, 80 in Physiology, 24 in Pharmacology and
50 in Pathology.

       No special non-medical classes are held in this College. Some lectures
are given by the staff of the College to the L. P. H. classes, and the
classes of Sanitary Inspectors and Nurses.

       Sixty-two research and other papers were published by members cf
the staff during the year 1936-37.

THE KING EDWARD MEDICAL COLLEGE, LAHORE (PUNJAB).

       It is a Government institution. In 1837, Sir John Lawrence thought
of establishing a medical college in Lahore, but financial difficulties stood
in the way and it was not until 1860 that the College was started in the
old Artillery Hospital in Anarkali. The first hospital attached to the
College was located in the stables of Raja Sucbet Singh in the Tibbi Bazar.
In 1883 the College moved to the site of the Mayo Hospital. The cost
of constructing the College and the Hospital amounted to more than 40
lakhs of rupees which was met partly by public subscription and partly
by Government grant. Its present name was given to it in 1910 to per-
petuate the memory of King Edward VII. The Medical School formed
part of the College till 1920 when the former was located at Amritsar
in the interest of both the institutions.

       Forty per cent. of the total number of vacancies are reserved for
Mohammedans and 20 per cent. for Sikhs. 10 seats are reserved for
women students and 5 each for candidates from the Punjab States and
the North-West Frontier Province; 3 for candidates from the Delhi Pro-
vince and 2 for those from Baluchistan. Military medical students are
not trained in this College.