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work and in whose selection account is taken of their proved ability as teachers. The scheme aims then at the establishment, in connection with the Government Civil Hospital, of full-time Chairs of Surgery (to be separated from that of Anatomy), of Medicine and of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, each professor being as sisted by a resident assistant and by a resident house officer." The improvement of out-patient accom modation and of pathological facilities in the hospital is insisted upon, as to which it may be observed that new out-patient accommodation is approaching com. pletion, while the question of pathological facili- ties is engaging the attention of the Government. Any other conditions suggested deal only with the general efficiency of the Faculty, and the only con- dirions requiring here to be mentioned are the provi- sion of full-time assistants in connection with the Chairs of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology, and the provision of a residential hostel in closer proximity to the hospital. To the proposed medical hostel allusion has already been made, and it takes the first place amongst University requirements in respect of additional hostels, Assistance in the intermediate medical departments is in part a question of money and in part one of finding suitably qualified candidates.
The scale upon which it is proposed that the Faculty should be re-organized probably represents the minimum for a medical school organized on modern lines and claiming to be of first-rate quality. Should
* The resident house officerships in Surgery and Medicine already exist
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