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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. 
