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EDUCATION.

hoped that the scheme for school gardens will do something
towards supplying such technical education as is required
by this section of the population. The Code provides a
grant for industrial schools in return for instruction in the
following trades :—Boys’ schools : carpentry, blacksmiths’
work, printing, bookbinding, tailoring, spinning; Girls’
schools : lace-making, embroidery, dressmaking, cookery.
There are at present 32 of these schools managed by Mission
bodies. The mostextensive of them is the Maggona Certified
Industrial School, under the Roman Catholics. This is
utilized as a Reformatory under the Juvenile Offenders’
Ordinance of 1886. An allowance is made by Government
for each juvenile offender, and considerable building grants
have been given. Each trade is supervised by one or more
trained Brothers, and theinstitution is a model one of its kind.
Ceylon Medical College.
This important institution is not connected with the
Department of Public Instruction, but is under its own
Council, of which the Governor is President, and is carried on
in accordance with the Medical Acts of Great Britain and the
Regulations of the General Medical Council of Great Britain.
It was established in 1870 as a Medical School in connection
with the Colombo General Hospital. In 1887 the Privy
Council of Great Britain determined that the second part of
the Medical Aet of 1886 shall be deemed to apply to Ceylon,
and in 1888 the license of the Ceylon Medical College in
Medicine and Surgery was recognized by the General
Medical Council of Great Britain. Greatimprovements have
recently been made in the equipment of the College.
The students of the College go through a five years’ course,
taking up their first professional examination at the end of
the first year, their second professional examination at the
end of the third year, and the final examination in two
parts at the end of the fourth and fifth years.
Lady students were admitted to the College in 1892 ; they
have a separate building with a special dissecting room.
Besides the Medical Department the College contains an
Apothecaries’ Deparment in which Apothecary Students go
through a two years’ course.

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