REPORT

ON THE WORKING OF THE

GOVERNMENT MEDICAL SCHOOL, RANGOON

FOR THE YEAR 1907.

    The Burma Government Medical School was formally opened on 4th February
1907 by Colonel King, the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Burma. The
session commenced with ten students nine of whom were in receipt of stipends and
one was a private student. Of the former one was a female student. Sub-
sequently five more students were admitted one as a stipend student, four as
private students. Thus by the end of February there were in all fifteen students.

    The following was the distribution of students according to race:—

    During the year two students left, one as he found his means inadequate to
meet the cost of living in Rangoon, the other on account of ill-health.

    The working hours of the School were 7 to 9 A.M., and 11 to 4 P.M.

    The subjects taught during the session were Physiology, Anatomy and
Chemistry. Practical instructions in Chemistry were given in the School
Laboratory and from June to the end of the year dissections were conducted on
the dead body.

    The following is a detailed account of the classes held and lectures
delivered:—

    The attendance at the lectures was good; two students were absent for one
and a half months and one month respectively on account of ill-health. Never-
theless the average attendance throughout the session was 96.5.

    The students showed themselves well conducted and desirous of learning,
unfortunately several of them were much hampered by a defective knowledge of
English. Though they all possessed certificates of having passed the 7th
Standard their knowledge of English was not sufficient to enable them to compre-
hendingly follow lectures in English on new, and to them, somewhat abstruse