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MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE,

SESSION 1880-81.

THE forty-fifth academical year opened on the 4th October 1880 with 194 students
on the books. Two were admitted as special cases in December and 2 students
at the commencement of the Summer Session; 64 were new admissions. The
corresponding numbers at the beginning of the previous year were 228 and 77.
Of the 194 students, 64 belonged to the Senior Department, whose curricula are
adapted to the requirements of the University for its Medical Degrees; 79 to
the Second Department, which consists of candidates for the Apothecary grade;
46 to the Junior Department studying for the Hospital Assistant qualification; and
5 entered to attend certain courses necessary for qualification as Chemists and
Druggists.

       2. No change took place in the College staff since last report, except that
Professor W. R. Browne, M.D., was appointed to the chair of Pathology in place of
Professor Sibthorpe, who obtained 20 months' leave.

       3. The following table shows the nature and extent of the College teaching
during the past year:-

       4. The working days of the Winter Session were 120. On 9 of these the
College was closed—on 2 for general holidays, on 5 on account of heavy rain, and
twice for reasons special to the College. In the Summer Session, which began on
the 1st April and ended on the 15th June, the working days were only 54, and 2 of
these were lost by general holidays. At Easter 14 additional days were lost.