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later and in 1888 it became a regular medical college 

 with power to license in medicine and surgery. Lady 

 students were admitted to the college for the first time 

 on May 5, 1892. The one-story building of the col- 

 lege, with library, lecture rooms and laboratories, was 

 erected at the expense of the late Susew do Soysa. The 

 dissecting room is a separate building, as well as the 

 laboratory for physiologic and pathologic chemistry. 

 The clinics are given in the General Civil Hospital, op- 

 posite the college building. The course of study em- 

 braces five years. The teaching force consists of 32 

 professors, lecturers, demonstrators and assistants. T. 

 F. Garvin, M.B., CM., Aberdeen, is a lecturer on sur- 

 gery, and H. G. Thomasz is clinical lecturer. Physics, 

 biology and elementary zoology are included in the pri- 

 mary branches. All the specialties are included in the 

 faculty. The present attendance of students is about 

 120. The students are given ample opportunity to serve 

 in the hospital as dispensers and dressers, and the 

 clinical material for instruction is very large, including 

 practical obstetrics in the De Soysa Lying-in Hospital. 

 The school has also a department for apothecaries. The 

 standards for admission and graduation correspond 

 with those of the medical schools of the United King- 

 dom. The fee for the whole course in advance (to be 

 paid in one sum at the commencement of the first col- 

 lege year), is 800 rupees ($256). A number of prizes 

 and medals have been established by friends of the in- 

 stitution. At the close of the session 1901-1902, the 

 school graduated 26. the following year only 9 candi- 

 dates. Part of the entrance and professional examina- 

 tions are conducted in the Tamil and Singhalese lan- 

 guages, of which the student must have a fair knowl- 

 edge. 



LEPER ASYLUM AT HENDALA. 



I visited this institution, which by the carriage drive 

 is ton miles distant from Colombo. The road leads 



