APPENDIX V.

NOTIFICATION.

GENERAL DEpartment.

With a view to extend to the Subordinate Medical Establishment of this Presidency the advantages of an education at the Grant Medical College, the following Rules have been approved by Government, and are published for general information:

1. The present system of entertaining probationers in the European branch of the Service is to cease after 1st May next. 2. The names of candidates for admission into this branch are to be submitted to the Medical Board.

3. A candidate must not be under the age of 15, nor above that of 18 years.

4. Candidates, in submitting applications for admission, must produce certificates of parentage, of age, and of healthy constitution of body, and satisfactory testimonials of character.

5. Candidates shall undergo an examination before a Committee of three Medical Officers, regarding the following points, viz:

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Physical fitness for military service.

Capacity to write English from dictation.

Knowledge of simple Arithmetic, including the Rule of
Three.

Knowledge of English generally, including orthography
and the meaning of words and sentences.

Colloquial knowledge of Hindoostance or Mahratta.

6. Candidates who are found sufficiently qualified on these points shall be eligible to fill vacancies in the rank of "2nd Grade Apprentices," in the order of their passing their examination, those best qualified being placed first on the list.

7. The examinations of candidates are to be held under instructions from the Medical Board, to whom the proceedings of Exa

mining Committees are to be transmitted. The Board will make the necessary recommendation to His Excellency the Commander in Chief for the admission into the Service of those who are qualified.

8. Second Grade Apprentices will be attached to the Hospitals of European Troops, and to the European General Hospital at the Presidency, on the recommendation of the Medical Board.

9. Second Grade Apprentices receive pay at the rate of rupees 5 per mensem, and rations or compensation, at the rate of 5 annas per diem; the rations being the full diet of an European patient in Hospital.

10. Second Grade Apprentices, while attached to Hospitals, are to be exercised in reading and writing English, in extending their knowledge of Arithmetic, in assisting in the preparation of Hospital papers, in acquiring a knowledge of the doses of the more commonly-used medicines, and the art of compounding, in ministering to the wants and comforts of the sick, in learning the application of bandages, and the manner of performing venesection, cupping, &c.; and Medical Officers under whom Apprentices are placed are required to pay particular attention that this order. is duly carried out.

11. After two years' service, Second Grade Apprentices will be eligible for admission to the Grant Medical College as "Student Apprentices."

12. To be entitled to admission to the College as Student Apprentices, they must be able to read and understand English well, to spell with accuracy, to write a good hand, and correctly from dictation. They must also be acquainted with Arithmetic as far as Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; they must have a general knowledge of the uses and doses of the medicines in general use, and be able to compound neatly and correctly from written prescriptions.

13. Their proficiency in all these respects will be ascertained by examinations held by the Principal and Professors of the College, in the first week of May of every year.

14. But Second Grade Apprentices will not be held eligible for admission to the College unless their industry, docility, and general conduct have been well reported of from the Hospital to

which they have been attached. Those who are deficient in these points shall be discharged from the Service, at the discretion of the Medical Board.

15. Second Grade Apprentices who, at the end of three years, are not found qualified for admission into the Medical College, shall be discharged the Service, at the discretion of the Medical Board.

16. Second Grade Apprentices who have been found qualified (agreeably to Articles 12, 13, and 14) to become Student Apprentices, will be raised to the rank of First Grade Apprentices, will be attached to the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital, and will attend at the Grant Medical College as students for a period of three years, and at the conclusion of that period shall undergo an examination, as hereafter specified, to test their qualifications for promotion.

17. The necessary recommendation for the promotion of 2nd Grade Apprentices, agreeably to last Article, and for their appointment to the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital, and attendance at the College, will be made to Government by the Medical Board.

18. During their first year of study at the College the Student Apprentices will attend the lectures and examinations in anatomy, chemistry, and materia medica. They will also be exercised in dissecting, and in practical chemistry.

19. During the second year they will attend the lectures on anatomy, and be engaged in dissecting and practical chemistry. They will also attend the lectures and examinations in physiology, medicine, and surgery, and the medical and surgical wards in the Hospital.

20. During the 3rd year they will attend the lectures on midwifery, medical jurisprudence, medicine, and surgery, and the medical, surgical, and obstetric wards in the Hospital. They will likewise attend the examinations on all these subjects.

21. Student Apprentices shall receive rupees 8 as pay per mensem, and the rations or compensation mentioned in Article 9.

22. The Surgeon of the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital shall have the power of commuting the rations of all Student Apprentices for the regulated money compensation.