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    Only two chances are given for students appearing for the First and
Second Professional Examinations and a third chance is given, though
rarely, to those who fail in one or two subjects but pass with credit in others.

    On an average 20 students work at a time in a practical class.

    Besides the School Library which contains medical books and journals,
students run their own Reading Room and conduct all indoor and outdoor
games such as tennis, football, cricket, base ball, ping pong etc.

    During 1936-37 a member of the staff published papers on (i) Causition,
Pathology and Treatment of Duodenal Ulcer and its Complica and (ii)
Transplantation of the Ureters, in the Christian Medical Journal of India.

THE NATIONAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, BOMBAY.

    It is a non-Government institution and was founded in 1921, by a few
zealous workers engaged in the medical and scientific professions, amongst
whom the name of Dr. D. D. Sathaye deserves special mention. The object
was to diffuse amongst the youths of the country knowledge about the
progressive western medical science and also to preserve and popularise the
best in the Ayurvedic and Unani systems. The College was affiliated to
the "Tilak Maharashtra Vidya Peeth". In 1924 the Ayurvedic and Unani
departments were abolished and the Institute was affiliated to the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, Bombay. The management of the Institution
is vested in a council called the College Council. In 1925, the late Dr. A. L.
Nair, the well known philanthropist of Bombay, built and equipped a chari-
table hospital in memory of his mother, Bai Yamunabai L. Nair, and
handed over the same to the Council of Management of the College to be
used as a training ground for its students. The College was accommodated
in a rented house up to 1927, when the College building was completed and
opened by H. E. Sir Leslie Wilson, the then Governor of Bombay. This
institute is dependent for its funds on public support and is a unique
example of voluntary effort and co-operative spirit on the part of many
eminent medical men of the city. This feature of the Institute was highly
commended in his speech by H. E. Sir Leslie Wilson.

    The minimum education standard required for admission to the College
is I. Sc. from June 1937, before which matriculates of a recognised Univer-
sity were eligible for admission. Students are admitted according to merit
and not on communal basis. About 10 seats are reserved for women
students.

    The number of applications received during 1935, 1936 and 1937 was
353, 346 and 196 respectively. Out of these 4, 46 and 121 applicants in
1935, 1936 and 1937 respectively were of the Intermediate Science
standard.

    No special rules exist for the failed candidates but they are governed
by the rules and regulations laid down by the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Bombay.

    The number of students working at a time in a practical class, on an
average, is 25 to 30.