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and in Assam the 2nd and 3rd year students are given four chances to
re-appear at the examination in which they fail. After the fourth failure
their names are struck off the rolls of the school. In Bengal and the
Punjab the 2nd and 3rd year students can continue to appear at their
annual examinations till the fourth failure, but Bombay allows its students
only two chances in the first professional examination for the L. C. P. S.
and three chances in the second professional (first L. C. P. S.) examina-
tion. In the Punjab the first year students are allowed four chances, in
the Central Provinces five and in Bihar and Orissa 2, but in Assam and in
some of the schools in Bengal the first year students are not retained in
the school if they fail to pass the annual examination.

       6. Hostel accommodation.—Hostel accommodation as a whole is
inadequate both in Government and non-Government schools. Only
44.4 per cent. of the students in Government and 40.3 per cent. in non-
Government schools can be provided with such accommodation. In
Bengal five medical schools have no hostel accommodation at all. Hostel
accommodation for women students is comparatively sufficient, it being
92 per cent. in non-Government and 61.5 per cent. in Government institu-
tions.

       7. Need for a uniform standard of medical education.—It has been
recognised for some time past that it should be the aim to raise the level
of medical qualifications and to maintain a uniform standard of medical
education throughout India, but provincial needs and financial considera-
tions have stood in the way of its realization. The inevitable distinction
between medical graduates and licentiates has been a source of consider-
able dissatisfaction to the latter who, after successfully undergoing an
arduous course of studies for five years, are given a lower status. They
have difficulties in prosecuting higher studies outside India. Even in India
facilities for acquiring higher qualifications are not made easy for them.
Their position hardly improves however successful they might be in their
individual efforts to gain further knowledge and also in the actual practice
of medicine and surgery. Their qualifications are not recognised by the
Medical Council of India. The considerations which have prevailed so
far in continuing the licentiate course of studies no longer exist, higher
scientific medical education has become popular and there is not likely
to be any dearth of well qualified candidates for admission to the Medical
Colleges. The time has therefore arrived for adopting a uniform standard
of medical education and the Government of Madras have already decided
that with effect from 1938 fresh admissions to the Stanley Medical School,
Madras, and the Lady Willingdon Medical School for Women, Madras,
should be stopped. The former institution will be converted into a
medical college for men and women.

       8. Summary of history and activities of Medical Schools in India

STANLEY MEDICAL SCHOOL, MADRAS.

       It is a Government Institution.

       The origin of the present day medical practitioners known by the
appellation of the L. M. P. can be traced as far back as the days of the