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AROUND THE WORLD VIA INDIA. 



teaching force, as a rule, is inadequate in number in all 

 the schools, and in consequence the men are over- 

 worked. I will give only one striking instance of this 

 kind. Lieutenant-Colonel Dimmock of Bombay is di- 

 rector of the Jamsetjee-Jeejeebhoy Hospital, principal 

 of Grant Medical College, and professor of obstetrics, 

 gynecology and diseases of children. Enough work for 

 five men under ordinary circumstances. The men of 



Fig. 37. — Madras Medical College and Government General Hos- 

 pital. 



the Indian medical service who are engaged in medical 

 teaching are overworked and underpaid, and they are 

 the men who do more for India than any other class of 

 men. 



MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE. 



The Madras Medical College was originally estab- 

 lished as a medical school in 1S35 (Fig. 37). The 

 classes received their instruction at first in rooms ad- 

 joining the quarters of the surgeon general of the gen- 

 eral hospital. The main building of the school was 

 opened in 1836 and then consisted of four apartments — 



