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126 medical department combine advice to each Student as to his plan of reading and note-taking and residing within the College he is constantly accessible and may be consulted upon numerous subjects to which the Professors could scarcely be expected to give their time and attention The Tutor's course of instruction is especially calculated to promote and encourage regular and diligent attendance upon Lectures During the Summer Session the same method is pursued with the subjects of Botany and Materia Medica XVI The Dean of the Medical Department The Dean of the Medical Department is an Officer appointed by the Council for the immediate purpose of facilitating the current business No card of admission to Lectures can be obtained from the Secretary's office without his written order and when obtained must be signed by the Dean previously to being taken to the other Professors All Certificates like- wise must be signed by the Dean previously to being signed by the Professors During the last fortnight in September and during the Winter and Summer Sessions the Dean gives daily attendance in the Marsden Library from 10 to 11 o'clock every day XVII King's College Hospital King's College Hospital is situated in the densely-inhabited district which lies between the two great thoroughfares of Holborn and the Strand It is in the parish of St Clement Danes but receives Patients in large numbers from the sur- rounding parishes of St Giles St Mary-le-Strand St Andrew Holborn and St George Bloomsbury as well as from the populous parish of Lambeth It is also very largely resorted to by the poor from every part of London from the suburban districts and even from the country to the distance of many miles around the Metropolis It is well furnished with every means of practical instruction and all the Offices are under the regulations of the "King's College Hospital Act 1851 conferred on Pupils of King's College