Calendar: 1854-1855 Page 159

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 157 Department under the superintendence of the Physician Accoucheur The duties of the Physician Accoucheur's Assistant are as follows lie shall have the immediate superintendence of all the Midwifery cases under the direction of the Physician Ac- coucheur He shall apportion the cases see that efficient arrangements are made for due attendance upon them and accompany the Students to their first cases He shall require daily report from the Students in attend- ance and himself visit at least once all the women who have been recently confined He shall keep an accurate record of the cases in the book send for the Physician Accoucheur in all cases of dillieulty and be held responsible for immediately reporting all cases of irregularity or neglect He shall also whenever time permits assist in making such post mortem examination and keeping records of such cases of interest in the Department for the Diseases of Women and Children as the Physician Accoucheur may need In the event at any time of Candidates for this office failing the obstetric duties shall be performed by the Phy- sician's Assistant Oat-Patient Dressers -There shall be twelve Out-Patient Dressers who shall serve three months under each surgeon Out-Patient Dressers shall be matriculated students who have attended diligently six months' surgical practice The examination of Out-Dressers shall be pass examination to consist of two divisions 1st viva voce principally in Anatomy 2d written principally Surgical in both cases having par- ticular reference to the nature of out-patient surgery No student failing in the first division shall be admitted to the second They shall all attend punctually on the days of the surgeon under whom they may be serving for the purpose of dressing patients in the surgery and registering the patients under the direction of the surgeon or assistant-surgeon in attendance