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JACKSON MEDICAL SCHOOL, JALPAIGURI, (BENGAL).

    It is a Government institution and was started in 1930. 64 students
have since passed out of the School after obtaining the L.M.P. diploma.

    Matriculation or an equivalent examination is the minimum educational
qualification required for admission to this school. Admissions are made
by selection. Preference is given to Mohammedans and depressed classes
upto 25 and 15 per cent. of the total vacancies respectively. No women
students are admitted.

    The number of applications received during 1935, 1936 and 1937 was 57,
59 and 49 respectively. 3, 4 and 3 applications in 1935, 1936 and 1937 res-
pectively were received from students with I.Sc. qualifications.

    Failed students are required to attend a further course of training and
are allowed only four chances to reappear at the examination at which they
fail, but there is no such restriction for the final year failed students.

    The maximum number of students working at a time in a practical class.
is 16.

    The Athletic Club, which provides mainly for football, hockey, cricket
and tennis, is managed by an Executive Committee formed of staff and
students. The School has a Reading Room within its premises equipped
with books and journals.

BANKURA SAMMILANI MEDICAL SCHOOL, BANKURA, (BENGAL.)

    To meet the growing demands for qualified medical practitioners in the
mofussil and for the spread of medical education in the Presidency, as well
as for the establishment of a fair-sized decent and well equipped hospital
in the District town, the Bankura Sammilani Medical School was started
by the Bankura Sammilani in 1922. It trains students for the Licentiate
Examination of the State Medical Faculty of Bengal and is recognised by
the Bengal Council of Medical Registration.

    The preliminary education standard required for admission to the School
is Matriculation or an equivalent examination of a recognised University.
Students from all districts and provinces are treated alike for admission to
this institution. No reservation of any kind obtains.

    The number of applications received in 1935, 1936 and 1937 was 98,
62 and 54 respectively out of which 1 application each in 1936 and 1937
was received from candidates with I.Sc. qualifications.

    It is compulsory for the failed students to attend all the lectures, de-
monstrations and practical classes in the subject or subjects concerned for
a period from the publication of the result upto the Test Examination and
no student is sent up for the Faculty Examination unless he passes in the
Test Examination.

    For purposes of practical classes students are divided into groups, each
group consisting of 20 students. In Physiology, Pathology and Anatomy
two groups work simultaneously while in Materia Medica, Chemistry and
Physics only one group works at a time.