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course. Students who fail in more than one subject are required to
reappear at the Board examination in all the subjects and no compart-
mental system is allowed. No student is promoted to the next higher
class unless he passes the Board examination in all subjects, but this rule
does not apply to students who fail either in Hygiene or in Pharmacology
in third year Board examination. A student who fails in the Final Part
I examination in January has to appear in April examination and one
who fails in April examination has to reappear in October next while
failing in October has to appear in January next.

    There is one Demonstrator for every 20 students in a practical class,
the Lecturers, etc., also acting as Demonstrators for the purpose. Not
more than 40 students work at a time in a practical class.

    A student's Union is functioning and there is a reading room attached
to the Hostel.

    During 1936-37 a paper on "The value of the Aldehyde and Stiburea
tests in the diagnosis of Kala-Azar" by members of the staff was published
in the Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene—April 1936 issue.

MISSIONARY MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR WOMEN, VELLORE (MADRAS).

    Missionary medical work for women and children was started in 1900
in Vellore in a small room in the Mission bungalow. This Dispensary
grew so rapidly that ere long the urgent need of a Women's Hospital
was felt. In 1899 Mr. Robert Schell, President of one of the New York
City Banks gave, as a memorial to his wife, sufficient money to erect
the Mary Taber Schell Hospital and Dispensary with an accommodation
for 40 beds. This hospital was completed in 1902 and enlarged to 60
beds in 1923. The Missionary Physicians in charge of the hospitals and
districts soon felt the necessity of training India's young women as
doctors to meet the increasing demand for medical aid for women and
children. In 1914 a committee was formed to consider the opening of a
medical school for women in South India and when the Committee's
plans for opening such a medical institution were made public, 150 women
candidates applied for admission out of which 18 were admitted and
ultimately 14 finished their course and took the diploma. The School was
first accommodated in rented buildings in Officers' Lines. Mrs. Henry
W. Peabody of America organised a campaign for the raising of money
for the buildings as a result of which in 1922 sufficient funds were
assured for the erection of buildings for the Medical School and Hospital.
The Madras Government contributed Rs. 5 lakhs to the building fund
and has continued to give an annual maintenance grant. The School
also receives an annual maintenance grant from the Travancore Govern-
ment. In 1918 Lord Pentland declared the Medical School open and the
Vorhees College of Vellore put its laboratories and lecture rooms at the
disposal of the students. In 1923 Her Excellency Lady Willingdon
opened the Cole Dispensary. In 1928 Viscount and Viscountess Goschen
opened the Hospital. In 1932 Sir George and Lady Beatrix Stanley
opened the Academic buildings at College Hill and in 1937 Lord Erskine,