54 iCompJeto their training at the military workshops, and 'the military authorities expressed complete satisfaction with their work.

It wiil be seen from the above review that during the five war years all that could ■be done in connection with technical education was to maintain the existing schools.

The positions at the beginning and end of this period are shown in the table •below :— 'J’en Government schools . Twenty-two aided schools Total ■ Number of Students.

191d.

1,948 2.417 4.395 1918.

2,148 2,605 4,753 In the Department’s budget for 1919 provision was made for certain schemes that had been under consideration for some time, but which had been postponed owing to war conditions. These included the establishment of a school of Egyptian arts and crafts in Cairo, and a school of weaving at Damietta. The latter scheme was postponed owizg to difficulties in arranging for suitable accommodation, but the Arts and Crafts School was established in the neighbourhood of the native bazaars, and was in full working order before the close of the year. The trades taught in the new school include weaving, dyeing, internal decorative work, plaster worn, furniture and other art constructional woodwork, wood-carving, inlay and maslirabia, metal beating, engraving and inlaying, art metal work in forged iron and other metals, jewellery, tent wonc, ornamental leather work and cane and basket work. The majority of the young apprentices are sons of craftsmen engaged in the various trades, while the craftsmen themselves may seek help from the school in diffiouilties that occur in connection with their work, whether in regard to the suijjply of materials and tools or the preparation of drawings and designs.

34. School of Medicine.

The School of Medicine suffered during the war in many ways, but chiefly from the reduction of the staff. Only three out of a total of eleven professors remained at their posts throughout aU the period. Through the devotion of the assistant staff the work was, however, carried on with a considerable measure of success. The number of students varied only slightly, there being 234 in 1919 as compared with 237 in 1914; 213 students graduated during this period. Dr. Keatinge, whose devotcd.work during thirty-five years raised the school to its present level of efficiency, retired from the post of director in 1919. He has been succeeded by Dr. Richards, a distinguished member of the staff.

Valuable research was carried on in the school during the war, the most important being the elucidation of the life-history of bilharzia by Lieutenant-Colonel Leiper. Bilharzia was discovered in this school in 1851 by Theodore Bilharz; it was reserved for an Englishman working in the same school nearly seventy years later to clear up the more important question of its life-histo.ry and transmission, the knowledge of which is a necessary condition of any serious attempt to exterminate it. The welfare of the Egyptian peasantry is closely bound up with the investigation, as the disease is a scourge among them.

In the spring of 1919 the School Council seriously took up the question of the reorganisation of the staff, and changes have been adopted of sufficient importance to be set forth in some detail. As regards the hospitr] staff, Egyptians have been appointed to two posts of surgeon, two posts of physician, one post of gyngecologist and one post of opthalmic surgeon. These posts carry with them the right to a seat on the Hospital Counoil, which is consequently now composed of equal numbers of English and Egyptians. The holders have their own wards and their own teams of students, for vdiose training they are re-sponsible.

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