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  Item Reference: KCLCAL-1898-1899-676

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xliv REPORT Council have elected Dr Hayes late Professor oi Practical Obstetrics to the vacant Chair and have appointed as Lecturer in Practical Obstetrics Dr John Phillips Assistant Physician at the Hospital The Medical Faculty have been devoting prolonged and careful attention to proposals for the improvement of the Medical School They have not yet completed their recom- mendations to the Council The work of the Public Health Department continues to develop and ten students of Public Health have this year received University diplomas viz one at Oxford and three each at Cambridge Dublin and London In the Ladies1 Department the number of entries during the past year has been well up to the average the individual entries for the year numbered about 050 The improve- ments mentioned in the last Report have been followed up by the formation of new Common Room and Library for students the opening of new studio for landscape work and new class in Elementary Science in the Chemical Laboratory for the London Matriculation Examination The general vigour and esprit de corps of this Department to which last year's Report drew attention is as conspicuous as ever Work of distinctly University type is done and it may be mentioned that the work of the Department was specially commended by the Commissioners in their Report to the Treasury to be referred to below In the Civil Service Department every branch shows in- creased numbers the total increase excluding that in Correspondence pupils is 126 The students of the Evening Classes continue to take the majority of the appointments offered for competition and the successes recorded in last year's Report are fully maintained The Day Classes are now held in rooms vacated by the removal of the School they number 409 scholars and have come to form second- grade school of the Commercial type They form constant feeder to the more advanced Evening Classes and thus con- tribute materially to the stability of the Department It may be mentioned that various commercial firms banks &c are beginning to select youths for their appointments from these classes
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