GUY'S HOSPITAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 613, 16 September 1909, Page 9

GUY'S HOSPITAL.

Guy's;; Hospital jirizb day takes the form of a very enjoyablo'garden party, and speeches jail .into,. a,somewhat,.secondary.: place The . :^M o ny_of;4isWbnt i .°n,was'perf o med by the' : ,Duto-of Devonshire) on July 8, and was iidtAblb tor tho . encouraging ylew',, taken 'in' the Dean'a a r^f:tho'p^p«t^ ; -the-modiStlffi. 'S? l' ii Lason. spoke df the , .iVork throughout (he year of the school as having 'been yery. satisfactory., Tho entry of, stu; dents from .'October, .1907,,.t6 October," 1008 was " approximately tho same as that of thb,previous twelve months;, giving proof that Guy'a Hospita!, is maintaining, its. high; -positidn among the medical,schools. In'tho dental school the. entries showed an increase upon the previous year, and its, policy: of taking pupils'for. tho ' period of mechanical apprenticeship was oxonn. 1 tionally successful; ThoUgh. the laWatory Z, ! only been, f open for this purpose for two years I' no ,fewer than forty pupils' are .now jbeinii trained.yin .the "department,.: Three Guy's men have entered: the Royal Army Medical-Corps, three the Naval Medical bervicb, and . two the ' Indian Medical Service during thb year. l The I iV^V'rS*^students.;, who have ".'joined . th 6 Otficprs Training .Corps--,-,0f,, the Territorial ' Army is larger than tlmt from:any other medi- i cat £ohool ; 'in the nietrdpolis.y The report 'inen-, I tioned a point of considerable general interest f in the, fact that, the number of students enter- < ing, the profession : is. still, much below that of t about fifteen years ago, ■ but that tho period of i depression is now-passing away, arid at the 1 present time tho domand for qualified men is i in excess of the, supply. Applications arc i being daily received from provincial hospitals i unable to get the medical officers they, require i and. tho income, that, call bo inado •by the re- I wntljf qualified man is certainly much better ( than it was a : fow years ago—a statement which' s drew a loud call of "Quory?" from a geiitlGnnn' ' present; Under those circumstances he'demne'd S it desirablo'" to draw, public attention to : tho i fact'that the profession Of medicine holds oiit at i the present tirao better prospects than' it'.has i for 'some, years past, '.and that an income can t .bo',made,'in its ranks which compares faviur-' •; ably with that to he/mado in many other pro- ; fessional coreers.'—London "Daily .Telegraph." 1