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    There is a Students Union which runs a School Magazine and holds
social and literary meetings of students. Reading Room subscribes to19
publications. Library consists of 2833 volumes.

    During 1936-37 a paper on Prognostic Significance of Icterus Index
in Lobar Pneumonia was published and research work on Ankylostorniasis
is being done in the Physiology Department. A Tuberculosis Enquiry
with reference to the types of Tubercle Bacilli causing Surgical and abdomi-
nal tuberculosis in Amritsar is being conducted in the Pathology Depart-
ment of the school. It is financed by the local Municipality.

THE LUDHIANA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR MEN, LUDHIANA. (PUNJAB).

    The existing accommodation at the Medical School, Amritsar, being
found inadequate to cope with the pressing need and increasing demand
for medical education in the Punjab, the late Dr. B. D. Soni, M.B., B.S.,
with the co-operation of some spirited public workers started this school
on 11th June, 1934 and obtained recognition by the Punjab Medical Council
on 23rd February, 1935. The School is at present recognised upto the
III Year class. After the death of Dr. B. D. Soni, the Governing Body
of the school, faced with financial difficulties, handed over the institution
to the Managing Committee of the Arya High School, Ludhiana, which
has now appointed a Managing Body for the control and management of
the School.

    The minimum educational qualification required of a candidate for
admission to the school is Matriculation with Science as a special subject.
Preference is given to F. Sc. students.

    The number of applications received in 1935, 1936 and 1937 was
43, 43 and 46 respectively. 4, 5 and 2 applications in 1935, 1936 and 1937
respectively were received from students possessing F. Sc. qualifications.

    Admission is made by a special committee appointed for this purpose.
Students are called for personal interview and the best of the lot are
selected. No seats are reserved for any community.

    Every unsuccessful candidate is given four chances to reappear at an
examination, and if he is even then unable to qualify he ceases to be the
student of the school.

    On an average 45 students work at a time in a practical class of
Physics, Physiology, Histology and Anatomy and 25 in a class of Chemistry,
Pathology and Pharmacy.

    The general activities of the students are regulated by the students'
union called the Ludhiana Medical School Union, under which there is
a Sports' Committee. Reading Room subscribes to Medical Journals
and other daily newspapers. Library consists of 200 books and a large
number of old journals.

WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE, LUDHIANA. (PUNJAB).

    The School was founded in 1894 by Dr. Edith Brown, D.B.E., M.A.,
M.D., starting with a class of 4 students. At present the number of
students is 130. During the past forty-three years 333 students have