GRANT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND THE HOSPI- 

 TALS OF BOMBAY. 



Bombay, with its 800,000 inhabitants, is the com- 

 mercial metropolis and medical center of India. The 

 city has many and varied medical institutions that 

 awaken the interest of the professional visitor. The 

 most important among these is the Grant Medical Col- 

 lege, the largest medical school in India. For sixty 

 years it has been the Mecca for native young men in 

 that part of India who were desirous of entering the 

 ranks of the medical profession. Thousands of grad- 

 uates have left its doors well prepared to serve their 

 countrymen as reliable and competent physicians. From 

 a modest beginning it has developed into a great med- 

 ical school with an attendance of more than 600. The 

 personnel of the students is an interesting one. The 

 mixture of colors, from the almost pure white of some 

 of the Eurasians to the coal black of some of the Hindus, 

 and the variety in dress, from Parisian to the most 

 picturesque costumes makes up an interesting picture 

 for the foreigner. 



The Mohammedan population of India is large but, 

 as a rule, its young men manifest little desire for a 

 higher education and the number of medical students 

 from this source is small. On the other hand, the 

 Hindus take kindly to the professions of law and med- 

 icine and the bulk of the medical students is recruited 

 from the high caste Hindus. The Parsee element of 

 the population is well represented in the medical schools, 

 and the strange headdress of the males of these people 

 figures conspicuously in all the classrooms. (Fig. 48.) 

 The female medical students number about sixty and. 

 with the exception of two or three white women, they 

 are Hindus, Parsees and Eurasians. What are known 



