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practising their profession in the Straits and F. M. S. The Hospital 

 Assistants receive a two years' course and are intended to serve as 

 dressers. Straits Govt. Student Hospital Assistants receive a sub- 

 sistance allowance of $15 a month, F. M. S. students $30 a month. 



At the end of 1905 there were 17 Full Course and 4 Hospital 

 Assistant students; at present we have 84 Full Course and 24 Hos- 

 pital Assistant Students. Seven Full Course students qualified in 

 May 1910 and since 1905, 18 Hospital Assistants have passed. 



In 1905 there were two regular teachers, namely the Principal and 

 the Physiologist ; in 1910 there are still two only. Had it not been 

 for the voluntary help of private practitioners and Government Medical 

 Officials in Singapore it would have been impossible to carry on 

 the work. 



But private practitioners and Government Officials can devote 

 only a small part of their time to such duties, and now the numbers 

 have increased to such an extent that an extra teacher on the regular 

 staff must be obtained if we are to carry on the School with success. 



The urgency is felt chiefly in connection with the work of the 

 last year in the Hospitals. This is the most vital part of the whole 

 course and ought to be undertaken by members of the regular staff. 

 This is a time in which skilled and earnest tuition is specially called 

 for, and to expect the regular staff to carry it on along with their other 

 work is to expect two men to do what would be the work of six in 

 European Medical Schools. 



The need for medical practitioners is urgent and will daily become 

 more so. It is not advisable to withdraw any Government scholar- 

 ships for the purpose of securing an additional member of the regular 

 staff unless some fund can be raised to take their place, and, therefore, 

 the Council appeal to you to help to provide the funds for furnishing 

 a capital sum yielding enough yearly to provide 25 scholarships of $15 

 to $18 a month (say $5000 annually) to take the place of twenty-five 

 Government scholarships which could then be diverted to provide a 

 much needed increase in the teaching staff. 



In view of the growing urgency for properly qualified men and of 

 the good work the School not only aims at doing but has already 

 accomplished, the Council confidently issues this appeal for subscrip- 

 tions to establish a fund for endowing 25 scholarships. 



This appeal is especially made to planters, mine-owners, and 

 other large employers of labour, as it is felt that there will be an 

 urgent need in the not distant future for trained medical men, and it 

 is thought that a certain supply of locally trained medical men will be 

 cheaper and more valuable than an uncertain supply from Europe. 



Each scholarship could be called by the name of the estate or 

 mine founding it, or, instead of founding a scholarship, an estate, or 

 mine, could nominate a student for a course of training at the School, 

 guaranteeing the payment of his expenses during his course of study. 



