Expense of Building. — Javanese Medical School. 189 



The heavy expense of building in Batavia, and the anxious 

 vigilance exercised over those of the community who are 

 sick, will best be understood from the fact that one single 

 new ward, making up from 60 to 80 beds, cost tlie govern- 

 ment about 60,000 guiklers (£5000). One of the build- 

 ings, at a little distance from the rest, is set apart for female 

 invalids, as also for lunatics and sick prisoners. Attached 

 to this hospital is a school of midwifery for the instruction 

 of native women in obstetrics, which at the period of our 

 visit was attended by sixteen women from various islands in 

 the Malay Archipelago, and which, in a land where the birth 

 of a child is accompanied by so many superstitious and 

 hideous ceremonies, cannot fail to be followed by most 

 beneficial results. 



One very important and useful establishment is the Java- 

 nese medical school {Geneeskimdige School voor Inlanders), which, 

 founded in 1851 by Mr. Bosch, at that period chief of the 

 medical staff, is intended to supply the sons of the more 

 prominent natives of Java and the adjacent islands with a 

 thorough training in and acquaintance with the art of medi- 

 cine as practised in Europe. Government defrays the travel- 

 ling expenses of tliese youths, as also all expenses of main- 

 tenance and education. Among the four-and-twenty scholars 

 here, we saw sons of native princes of Java, Palembang, 

 Celebes, Amboina, Ceram, Sumatra, and Borneo, who in- 

 tended following up the profession ; and it is worthy of remark 

 that two natives of Menado in the island of Celebes of the 



