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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13653, 19 February 1913, Page 3 (Supplement)

Word h;;.<.: bcon n^-tvived that two Nelson ;rii>dk\ij studi.-nt;.;, Messrs. Harold Pettit (second son of Mr. Thos. Pettit) and Cyril Baigent (son of Mr. Henry Baigent, Waimea street) have passed the , final examination for the M.B. degree.

Mr. Thos. Pettit received word yesterday that his son, Dr. W. H. Pettit, of tho Baptist Indian Medical Mission, has passed his final language examination in .Bengal. Dr. Pettit holds n very important position in tho eervico he is attached to. being in charge.of the Ghandpur Hospital. Dr. J^ttit and his wife are the only two Europeans at-' taefoed to the hospital, the* rest" of the staff being Bengalis. The medical eido of tlie mission service presents great op|>ortunitie..s for assisting the work.' It is stated of Chandpur. with justifiable pride, that of the 12,759 out patients treated at the hospital in the last year covered by the report, that no less than 1700 were "•vomen and girls, a fact that Soes to show how much confidence has boon inspired and prejudice removed, " for it is but a short timifr ago that no ■females were permitted to set foot in any institution cf the kind. The1 inpatients of tho hospital- numbered .36 fen-r.ks und 147 males. The report to '

which wi» aro referring, mentions the 'pitiful ca-seis which came under_ notico almost daily where diGea.se« easily curp.bio in their early stages-had .been al"cwed to run their course ■ till' all hop^ of perfect nvitoration-a-nd in many cases all hope of life, itself, was lost. "

Xea;6tir.tio'n>3 are proceeding at Greymouth to .inaugurate"a one day service f rohi G.neymouth'. to. Wellington } -. via Nelson. Tho p ran. is to proceed by "train and motor service- to Nelson, and;-, then join they ste-anier ;to Wellington.-/ Tlie journey would occupy twenty-tyro lioiirs:.