THE LA HO HE MEDICAL SCHOOL. of this institution for the year 1873-74 indicates The school educates pupils in English and
report
The
decided advance.
Hindustani; 55 of the former, and 120 of the latter, studied the year, and nine English and fire Vernacular students
during
passed
at the close of the session.
(students class.
not
receiving
a
There
scholarship)
on
were
nine free students
the roll of the
English
This circumstance indicates that medical education is
becoming popular in the Punjab. The school has begun to educate youths from the'North-Western Provinces as well as the Punjab, and its licentiates are now employed in both provinces. Of the Vernacular class the majority receive stipends from Government, and for the remainder an allowance is contributed to the school by local funds; the latter belong to
the
"
hakiin
class"
and
are
relatives of
baids
and
the province are thus being educated and trained in rational medicine? a system which is worthy of commendation and imitation in hakims
The
hereditary
medicine
men
of
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other provinces. The details which Dr. 'Neil, the Officiating Principal, gives in his report concerning the classes and plan of instruction pursued in tlie school show that the professors and teachers spare no pains to render the training imparted there as thorough and practical as possible. The fact that, though no professor of forensic medicine has been appointed, a complete course of lectures in this important branch is voluntarily delivered by the professors' indicates the excellent spirit which actuates them in the performance of The Officiating Principal points to a very great their work. blank in the available means of instruction, namely, the want of a lying-in department. We most thoroughlyconcur in his opinion that the various phenomena of delivery can hardly be satisfactorily or usefully demonstrated by even the most artistic model," and would strongly urge the remedying of this defect. The buildings occupied by the Lahore Medical School are said to be too small for the increased number of pupils, and the necessity for providing a new medical school is indicated. The Mayo Hospital appears to furnish ample means of clinical instruction.
From the report
and
institution it appears that 22,012 out-door
returns
patients,
of
this
and 1,692
treated during the year. Of the latter 1,000. 1,744 minor and 146 major operaIt appears that the tions were performed during the year. attendance has somewhat diminished as compared witli the previous year, owing to the opening of a mission dispensary ; this incident supplies an illustration of the remarks which in-door
patients
were
195 died or 115 per
we
have made in another column.
[Octobee 1,
1874.