ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
To that contained in the Tables
(pp. 334, 335)
RELATIVE TO THE
PROVINCIAL SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE IN ENGLAND, FOR THE SESSION
1856-57.
by the lecturers to test the qualifications of students for matriculating at the University of London. Students entering Sydenham College are requested to furnish proof of having had a sufficient preliminary education, of being of good moral character, and are required to observe the byelaws of the College. Matriculation fee, ll. Is.; reading-room and museum fee, (annually,) ll. ls.; porter’s fee for each class, 2s. 6d. THE GENERAL HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM, contains 220 beds. ! Upwards of 2000 in-patients, and upwards of 15,000 outpatients are admitted annually, of which nearly 5000 are t
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QUEEN’S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. accidents. Resident pupils are received THE academical year is divided into three terms; the Michaelmas term commences on the first of October ; the Lent resident pupils and dressers.
into the
hospital,
as
also
non-
For dresserships, in addition to the fees stated in the table-. begins on the second Monday in January; and the Trinity Six months, 8l. 8s. ; twelve months, 121. 12s.; eighteen months, term commences on the first of May and ends in July. Extracts from the College Regutc(tions. -Resident students 151. 15s.; three years, 26l. 5s. are required to attend prayers daily, and on Sunday divine service in the chapel, and also the theological lectures and BRISTOL MEDICAL SCHOOL. examinations ; to have furnished rooms with commons in colThe Winter Session will commence on Wednesday, Oct. 1st,. lege ; to wear the academical dress whenever they appear in 1856, and terminate in the middle of April, 1857, with a forthall, or at lectures, and in the college chapel. recess at Christmas. Non-resident students may reside with their parents or night’s BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY. -This hospital contains 242 or in the Council. They may guardians, lodgings approved by of which 124 are for surgical cases. Nearly 20,000 dine in the college hall, either regularly or occasionally, on beds, are annually under treatment, and of these more than, patients giving notice, on the payment of ls. 6cl. per day or 8s. per 2600 are in-patients. Annual average of surgical in-patients, week. with about 2090 out-patient casualties. The college expenses, including commons, chamber rent and 1430, Each physician and surgeon is empowered to take six hosservants’ wages, but exclusive of college fees, do not exceed pital pupils. The physicians’ pupils are required to attend 501. for the three terms. The students breakfast in the hall at regularly on out-patient days and when the physicians are seven A.M., have refreshment at twelve, dine at five P.3-1., have the wards, and are expected to write for the physicians coffee at eight P.M. The payments are to be made by three visiting at their dictation, to keep the case books, and attend the instalments, viz. :—18L. on the first of October, 141. on the first clinical lectures. of January, and 18l. on the first of May. An extra charge Of the surgeons’ pupils, three are dressers and three are nonwill be made for an additional room. assistant pupils. The latter are required to attend regularly A medical tutor, resident in college, prepares the junior in the to see the out-patients, the operations, and poststudents for the Matriculation Examination of the University mortemwards, and to attend the clinical lectures. examinations, of London, and devotes a certain number of hours to the senior (dresser), first year, 35l.; second Fees.-Surgeon’s pupil students, in the dissecting-room, and to examine them upon year, 30l. ; third year, 251.; for three years, at one payment, the subjects of the various lectures. 801. For six months’ attendance in the dispensary and laboraScholarships and Prizes for strictly Professional Knowledge. tory, 5l. The fee for apprenticeship to the house-surgeon, - The Warneford Scholarships : Four scholarships of 10l. each, which includes five residence in the infirmary, and all years’ held for two years, to be conferred upon the students who have the attendance on hospital practice required by the College of resided in the college at least twelve months, who have been and Apothecaries’ Hall, is 315l. Each pupil is reSurgeons distinguished for their diligence and good conduct, who havee to pay an entrance fee to the infirmary of 5l., and a been regular in their attendance on divine service, and whose quired of ll. per annum to the library. subscription at the has attendance been regular. theological lectures The dressers reside in the infirmary in weekly rotation, to The Warneford Gold Medals, of two prizes, either in equal attend upon the casualties. The essays written for these prizes are or unequal amounts. Two scholarships, founded by the late to be of a religious as well as a scientific nature. The subject’ R.Snple Scholarships: of Clifton, will be awarded annually to the Suple, Esq., is chosen from either Anatomical, Physiological, or Patholo- two best students attending the medical and surgical practice gical science. of the Bristol Royal Infirmary. The Ratcliffe Prize: Ten guineas for a prize essay. Two Prizes, each consisting of a Gold Medal of the value of The Ingleby Prize: Five guineas offered annually by Clement five guineas, and about seven guineas in money, are annually Ingleby, Esq., for clinical medical and surgical reports. distributed to the successful candidates after examinations held Medals are the Gold offered Governors of the Two by College the physicians and surgeons. The examination comprises for regularity of attendance at lectures and examinations, and by of cases in the wards, the preparation of morbid specireports at chapel, and good conduct during three years, to students who mens illustrative of disease, and accompanied, if possible, by shall be recommended to the Council by the professors for general and chemical illustration. microscopic excellence in the _College examinations. ST. PETER’S HOSPITAL.—This hospital contains 228 beds, Silver Medals and certificates of honour are annually given and, upon an average, 922 in-patients and 2230 out-patients each a for on in by public examination, proficiency professor, are annually admitted. It has wards specially devoted to the respective departments of medical science. as well as an asylum for pauper lunatics. lying-in patients, The respective offices of physicians’ clerks, and surgeons’. The faculty are in attendance daily, from 12 to 2 r.M. Oppordressers, and prosector of morbid anatomy, are filled up by tunity for studying practical pharmacy may be had, upon the the medical officers from the students of the Queen’s Hospital, of a small fee. payment after public examination, and the production of testimonials Physician’s pupil’s fee, 151. per annum, including asylum. of good conduct, without any additional fee. attendance on the latter for three months, 5l. 5s. Separate The expenses of the five years’ course, with indenturesare also admitted to the Bristol General Hospital, and two years in the junior department, and three years at Pupils the Bristol Dispensary. The medical practice of the General namely, in the medical department, with attendance on hospital pracHospital is received by the Apothecaries’ Company on the tice, dispensing at the hospital, midwifery, and on the above’ same terms as that of a dispensary. The fee for attendance lectures, may be covered by a composition payment of 761. on the physicians’ practice for eighteen months is 15l. annually, in advance, inclusive of commons, &c. QUEEN’S HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM, contains 130 beds; ave-. LEEDS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. rage number of in-patients, 1200, and of out-patients, 5000 detached has fever It wards. INFIRMARY contains 141 beds. Average LEEDS GENERAL annually. number of in-patients, 135; of out-patients, 800. term
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LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. An Introductory Lecture, on Wednesday, October 1st, at: two o’clock, by Mr. T. F. Grimsdale.