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travel along the great Central-road to the Eastern Province. 

 There are five immigrant hospitals along this road, where 

 sanitary precautions are taken, and great attention paid to 

 the comfort and health of the immigrant coolies on their 

 long march from the coast to the coffee estates. 



It was in 1869 that the new hospitals at Kandy, Gampola, 

 Badulla, and Ratnapura were completed and occupied ; since 

 then new hospitals have been erected in the towns of Galle, 

 Matara, Negombo, Matale, Kurunegala, Batticaloa, Puttalam, 

 and Kalutara. These new hospitals have been constructed 

 on the pavilion principle, each ward being a separate 

 detached building, and the ventilation and drainage are 

 satisfactory. The pretty little hospitals at Panadure and 

 Marawila are gifts of the late Susew De Soysa, Mudaliyar, 

 and the Lying-in-Home was built by Mr. C. H. De Soysa. 



The year 1870 marked a new epoch in the medical 

 history of Ceylon. To Sir Hercules Robinson belongs the 

 credit of sanctioning the inauguration of the Medical School, 

 which was raised to the dignity of a College in 1880, 

 when the late Sir John Douglas, K.C.M.G., was Lieutenant- 

 Governor. 



Thanks to the liberality of one of our well-known public- 

 spirited fellow townsmen, who granted a free site opposite 

 to the Civil Hospital, this school now has a local habitation. 

 Government voted a sum of R12,000 for the erection of a 

 building on this site, which now contains lecture-rooms, 

 library, anatomical, physiological, and chemical laboratories. 

 Mr. Sampson Rajapakse's name has further been associated 

 with this institution for the last thirteen years, as he is also 

 an annual donor of a prize of R100 for the best student in 

 Obstetric Medicine. The late Susew De Soysa, Mudaliyar, 

 built the De Soysa Museum and Library, at a cost of R12,000 



This College has been in existence for sixteen years and 

 has prospered. Dr. Loos had the honour of being its first 

 principal, and he vacated the office on his appointment as 

 Colonial Surgeon of the Central Province in 1876, when 



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