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to the College as well as a laboratory devoted toinstruction in public health. A block is devoted to

pathology, and contains the post-mortem room aswell as extensive laboratories for bacteriology, clinicalpathology, and pathological chemistry. The MedicalCollege Buildings include three large lecture theatres,.a large dissecting-room, laboratories for chemistry,biology, morbid anatomy and histology, and publichealth, as well as a spacious library (containing 14,500volumes), a well-appointed museum of anatomy,physiology, comparative anatomy, materia medica,botany, and pathological anatomy. The patho-logical museum is complete. A new block in Giltspur-street has recently been acquired and has been fittedup as lecture theatres and laboratories for physics,chemical physiology, experimental physiology, histo-logy, and pharmacology.The College has recently bought the site and build-

ings in Charterhouse-square (five minutes’ walk fromthe Hospital), formerly occupied by The MerchantTaylor’s School, and the whole of the preclinicaldepartments will shortly be transferred there.

Special Classes for the Primary and Final F.R.C.S.Examinations are held twice yearly. Instruction.in Preliminary Science is given to University of Londonstudents in chemistry, biology, and physics throughoutthe year. Facilities for research work are affordedin the Clinical Units and laboratories of pathologicaland other departments. Vacation Anatomy Coursesare given in spring and summer.

Scholarships given in aid of Medical Study.--SixEntrance Scholarships and Exhibitions are awardedannually—viz. : (1) and (2) a Scholarship of £ 100 andan Exhibition of 260 in any two of the followingsubjects : Human Anatomy and Embryology, Phy-siology, Pathology (including Bacteriology), Bio-

chemistry ; (3) a Scholarship of 2100 in Chemistry,Physics, and Biology; (4) and (5) a Scholarshipof 2100 and the Jeaffreson Exhibition of .650 inMathematics, Latin, or Greek or French or German,a second Language or Chemistry or Physics ; (6)the Shuter Scholarship of t50 in Anatomy and

Physiology, which is awarded after competitiveexamination among Cambridge Graduates. Themore important of the other Scholarships and prizesare as follows : Four Junior Scholarships-(7) No. 1,30, Anatomy and Physiology; (8) No. 2, 220, Anatomyand Physiology ; (9) No. 3, .825, Chemistry, Physics,and Biology; (10) No. 4, JE15, Chemistry, Physics,and Biology ; (11) Senior Scholarship, B50, Anatomy,Physiology, and Chemistry ; (12) Kirkes Scholarship,230 and medal, Clinical Medicine ; (13) and (14) twoBrackenbury Scholarships, 239 each, one in Medicineand one in Surgery ; (15) Sir G. Burrows Prize,10 guineas, Pathology ; (16) Skynner Prize, 13guineas, Regional and Morbid Anatomy ; (17)Matthews Duncan Medal and Prize, .620, Midwiferyand Gynaecology ; (18) Luther Holden ResearchScholarship in Surgery, awarded by election, ;6105 ;(19) Lawrence Research Scholarship and Gold Medalin Pathology, awarded by election, ;6115; and (20)Baly Scholarship in Clinical Medicine, B75, awardedby examination.The recreation ground of 10 acres, for the use of

the members of the Students’ Union, is at WinchmoreHill. The Union’s premises at the Hospital containa large reading and smoking room, a committee andwriting room, luncheon and dining hall, and a minia-ture rifle range. Athletic amenities are also availableon the new site in Charterhouse-square.

Charing Cross HospitalThe Hospital, to which the School is attached,

contains 300 beds. There are special departmentsfor mental diseases, midwifery, diseases of women,of children, of the skin, ear, throat, nose, and teeth,for orthopaedic cases, X ray work, and for electricaltreatment. In the medical school demonstratorshipsand assistant demonstratorships are open to studentsof the school. Eight house physicians, six house

surgeons, two obstetric and gynaecological housesurgeons, six house surgeons to the special depart-ments, two resident anaesthetists, and four clinicalpathologists are appointed annually. The followingappointments are open to students after they haveheld resident appointments : resident medical officer,at a salary of 2400 per annum ; resident casualtyofficer, at 2200 per annum ; and five registrars tothe medical, surgical, obstetrical, and ear, nose, andthroat departments, at 2150 per annum each.Primary and Intermediate students receive their

lectures and practical work at King’s College, andfinal studies are taken in the school and hospital,where systematic lectures, demonstrations, andtutorial classes are arranged in general and specialsubjects.

In the Institute of Pathology, under a whole-timestaff of scientific workers and in fully equippedlaboratories, students receive their training in pre-ventive medicine, pathology, and bacteriology. Thereare special facilities for research, and post-graduateteaching is available. The course in practicalophthalmology is given in the Royal WestminsterOphthalmic Hospital. Courses in general medicine,surgery, and pathology, with the requisite clinicalwork in the wards and out-patient departments, areprovided for students reading for dental qualifications.The pathological museum, containing over 4000

specimens and 3000 histological preparations, com-prises (1) the section on general pathology, and(2) the Cuthbert Lockyer Collection of over 1150gynaecological and obstetrical specimens. The librarycontains 3950 volumes including the latest editionsof text-books.The Students’ club, with smoking and luncheon

rooms on the school premises, cloak room, telephone,&c., provides for the social comfort and convenienceof the students. The club is controlled by a committeeof students, and includes the Medical Society and theDramatic Society. The Gazette is published quarterly.The sports ground, of 8 acres, at Colindale affordsfacilities for Rugby and Association football, cricket,hockey, and tennis (hard and lawn courts). Inaddition there are sections of the club devoted toathletics, boxing, swimming, golf, and badminton.

Scholarships.-The following are offered annually(a) for students commencing medical studies-two scholarships, each of the value of 250 (b) forstudents commencing clinical studies-two Univer-sity " scholarships, each of the value of 2120, inPathology ; one " University " scholarship, value2120, and one " Open " scholarship, value E75, inAnatomy and Physiology. In addition there are anumber of Exhibitions.Prizes.-The following prizes are offered : (1)

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Llewellyn " Prize, .625, for highest distinctionthroughout the final course of studies ; (2) " WilliamTravers" Prize, 615 ; (3) "J. H. Morgan" Prize,210; other prizes in money are the " Pereira,"" T. H. Green," and " Steadman," while prizes inmoney are offered for proficiency in clinical medicineand surgery, and all the different subjects of thecurriculum.

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St. George’s HospitalThis hospital has a service of 436 beds, of which

180 are allotted to surgical, 150 to medical cases, and100 are at the Convalescent Hospital at Wimbledon.There are all the usual special clinical departments.One ward is set apart for diseases peculiar to women,and there is a maternity ward of 11 beds. Children’sbeds are placed in the women’s wards. There aretwo ophthalmic wards.

Eight house physicians, eight house surgeons, andeight casualty officers are appointed annually. Specialattention is directed to the following paid appoint-ments, among others, which are open to studentsafter they have held house office : resident assistantphysician and resident assistant surgeon at .S250per annum each ; medical officer to the Atkinson-Morley Convalescent Hospital at 2300 per annum ;

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medical registrarship at 2200 per annum ; surgicalregistrarship at 2200 ; assistant curatorship of themuseum at 2100 ; obstetric assistantship (resident)at j6100 ; the post of resident anaesthetist at .8100.

Entrance scholatships and endowed prizes of atotal value of 2973 may be awarded annually ; a

detailed list is placed below. The entire teaching andlaboratories are now devoted to purely clinical subjects,and arrangements have been made with the authoritiesof King’s College and University College for studentswho enter the first, second, or third year of thecurriculum as students of St. George’s to carry outthe necessary courses of instruction at one of thoseColleges. Students then complete their course,without payment of any entrance fee, in a schoolentirely devoted to clinical work.

Scholarships and Prizes.-At this school 11 entrancescholarships and exhibitions are given, the moneyvalue and the subjects of examination being as

follows : (a) and (b) two William Brown Exhibitions,2120 and 280 respectively; (c) and (d) two AnneSelina Fernee Scholarships, E80 each ; (e) Devitt-Pendlebury Scholarship, 240 (approx.) ; (f) and (g)two Anne Selina Fernee Exhibitions, 960 each,Anatomy and Physiology, except in the case of (c)and (f) subject of examination for which is GeneralPathology.

In addition to the above, Exhibitions each of thevalue of 240 and up to four in number may be awardedto candidates of approved merit in the EntranceScholarships Examination. The others are as follows :(h) Allingham Scholarship in Surgery for Studentsqualified not more than two years, .687 ; (i) and (j)two Brackenbury Prizes, one in Medicine and one inSurgery, 233 each, open to students of not more thanfive years’ standing ; (k) H. C. Johnson MemorialPrize, 220, Practical Anatomy ; (l) Pollock Prize,224, Physiology, Physiological Chemistry, and Histo-logy ; (m) Clarke Prize, j65 ; (n) Thompson Medal, 29,Clinical Reports; (o) Brodie Prize, 28, Clinical Reports;(p) Webb Prize, open to perpetual pupils, .634, Bac-teriology ; (q) Sir Francis Laking Memorial Prize, 645,open to students having registrable qualifications.The Library is fully stocked with the latest and best

text-books. The Pathological Museum has recentlyundergone complete revision. In addition to itswell-known specimens of great historical interest, itcontains a complete range of pathological conditions,set out in such a way that the student can easilyobtain the fullest information relating to any disease.The St. George’s Hospital Club, with smoking-

and luncheon-rooms on the hospital premises and anathletic ground at Wimbledon, is an amalgamation ofthe Hunterian Society, the Gazette, and the Rugbyfootball, cricket, lawn tennis, boxing, rifle, and golfclubs. Students have the advantage of a libraryof medical and scientific books which is kept upto date.

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Guy’s HospitalThe Medical School, which has been entirely rebuilt

within recent years, provides ample accommoda-tion with modern equipment for all the non-clinicalsubjects of the medical curriculum. The School is aconstituent part of the University of London andoffers a complete medical education of Universitystandard throughout. The Hospital contains 646beds, a total which is more than sufficient to providethe clinical material necessary to ensure that thestudents in the clinical period are given every oppor-tunity to obtain a practical knowledge of clinicalwork. On commencing the clinical period, studentsare placed for three months under the charge of anexperienced clinical tutor while they are given apreliminary course of instruction in methods ofclinical examination. Thereafter they hold a seriesof appointments, each of three months’ duration, insurgical, medical, and obstetrical and gynaecologicalwards. Students are signed up after each appoint-ment by the members of the staff to whom they havebeen attached. The type of instruction is essentially

practical and students are given a large amount ofindividual responsibility, provided that they showthemselves worthy of it.The following special departments are attached to

the hospital: Departments of ophthalmology, laryn-gology, gynaecology, diseases of children, diseases ofthe nervous system, psychological medicine, derma-tology, otology, actino-therapeutics, anaesthetics,dentistry, fractures, orthopaedics, vaccine, tuberculosis,genito-urinary and venereal diseases, Salomon’sWelfare Centre (for Maternity and Children). Dresser-ships and clerkships in the various special departmentsare held by students after they have completed theirgeneral medical and surgical and their obstetrical andgynaecological appointments.

There is a Venereal Clinic, in accordance with thescheme of the Local Government Board and LondonCounty Council. Lectures and clinical instructionare given, to which medical students and practitionersare admitted without fee.House physicians, house surgeons, out-patient

officers, assistant house surgeons, obstetric residents,house surgeons in the departments of ophthalmology,laryngology, and genito-urinary diseases, housephysicians in the departments for neurology anddermatology and for diseases of children, and clinicalassistants are appointed from among recently qualifiedstudents according to merit.

Scholarships.-Six Entrance Scholarships are

awarded annually as follows : (a) one War MemorialScholarship, of the value of ;S200, to be awardedalternately in Arts and Science (next award, April,1934, in Science) ; (b) one Open Arts Scholarshipof £ 100 for students under 19 years of age ; candidatesare required to take English and any two of thefollowing subjects : Latin, Greek, French, German,and Mathematics ; (c) one Open Junior Science’Scholarship for students under 20 years, 2100; sub-jects any three of the following : Inorganic Chemistry,Physics, Biology, and Mathematics ; (d) a confinedJunior Science Scholarship of the value of £ 100 isoffered for competition, annually in June or July, tocandidates who have attended the Preliminary ScienceClasses at this School ; (e) an additional Open Scholar-ship is awarded every other year; (f) UniversityEntrance Scholarships. These are (1) a War MemorialScholarship of the value of JB100, awarded annually inJune or July ; (2) an open exhibition of the value of260, awarded annually in June or July, for studentswho have completed their examinations in Anatomyand Physiology in a British School or Universityoutside the London Metropolitan area ; subjects, anytwo of the following : Human Anatomy and Em-bryology, Physiology, Pathology including Bacterio-logy, Biochemistry. The examination is held incommon with the Medical School at St. Thomas’sHospital and the Medical College of St. Bartholomew’sHospital. Two Entrance Scholarships are awardedannually in April as follows : (3) A War MemorialScholarship in Arts of the value of 240 per annum forfour years, open to students under 19 years of age.Candidates are required to take English and any twoof the following subjects : French, German, Latin,Greek, and Mathematics. (4) A Science Scholarship ofthe value of 240 per annum for four years, open tostudents under 20 years of age. Candidates arerequired to take two of the following subjects:Chemistry, Physics, and Biology.The Wills Library contains 10,000 volumes of

standard text-books and books of reference.The Museum contains specimens of Pathological

Anatomy, amounting to upwards of 5000, supple-mented by more than 2000 drawings. These illustratethe diseases of all the systems in the body, includingSurgical, Obstetric and Gynaecological affections, andhave recently been entirely remounted, arranged andcatalogued, forming a collection unrivalled for itsextent and educational value. In point of size it issecond only to that of the Royal College of Surgeons.Here also is the famous collection of Wax Modelsmade by the late Mr. Towne.