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64 twice in the year, special attention being paid to proto-zoology. The syllabus comprises the histology and pathology of blood, mosquitoes, malaria, blackwater fever, trypanosomes of men and animals and their carriers, piroplasmosis, kala-azar and Delhi boils, tick fever and relapsing fever, syphilis, yaws, verruga Peruana, spirillar diseases of domestic animals, yellow fever, dengue, filariasis, ankylostomiasis, bilharziasis, paragonimiasis, parasitic flies, poisonous animals, dysentery, liver abscess, sprue, Madura foot, beri-beri, scurvy, leprosy, plague, Malta fever, cholera, typhoid fever, hygiene of ships, tropical hygiene, care of vaccine lymph in the tropics, cattle plague, bovine tuberculosis and horse sickness. Veterinary surgeons are sometimes sent to attend part of the course by the Colonial Office, and others join privately.

Since the beginning, 349 graduates have passed through the Institute, 115 of these being colonial officers, including seventeen veterinary surgeons: thirty-one have been naval doctors, seventy-nine doctors of the merchant service, eighty-three private practitioners, and the remaining forty-one were foreign students. Among the latter class many nationalities have been represented: Hungarians nine, Dutch nine, Swedes, Swiss, Russians, Japanese, Brazilians, Bulgarians, and one each from Belgium, England, and Australia.

Three guineas are paid for the short course, and double that sum for the tropical course, while the Hamburg doctors pay no fees.

The clinical material in the hospital during the last six years has comprised 1578 cases of malaria, eighty-three cases of dysentery, mostly amoebic, seventy-one of black-water fever, 145 of beri-beri, two cases of trypanosomiasis, besides patients suffering from various worm infections, yaws, liver abscess, sprue, and leprosy.