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100 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT If any In-Patient Clinical Clerk is by any cause prevented from attending to his duties he shall provide substitute approved by the Physician under whom he is serving Physicians' Assistant -He shall be qualified by some diploma to practise medicine and shall have served to the satisfaction of the physicians the ollice of In-Patient Clinical Clerk for the full period of six months He shall previously to his appoint- ment produce certificate of moral character to the satis- faction of the Committee of Management He shall before entering into the office pay the sum of 30 for board during his six months' residence in the Hospital The examination shall be both viva voce and written the former in anatomy and morbid anatomy the latter in materia medica toxicology practice of medicine and midwifery The most proficient candidate shall be elected The Physicians' Assistant shall visit the medical wards daily between the hours of ten and twelve accompany the physician during his visit and prescribe under his direc- tion shall see such patients in the evening as the Physician may think necessary and be responsible for the proper treat- ment of the medical cases If the Physicians' Assistant is by any cause prevented from attending to his duties he shall provide substitute ap- proved by the Physicians of the Hospital Assistant to the Physician Accoucheur -A senior pupil is selected by examination to take the charge of the Midwifery Department under the superintendence of the Physician Accoucheur The duties of the Physician Accoucheur's Assistant are as follows He 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