55 to be tlie best teachers available, has been drawn up in consultation with the Department of Public Health.

Two whole-time professors of clinical medicine and clinical surgery have been appointed in place of the half-time professors of the same subjects. This change is one which is now bein adopted by several of the more progressive London hospitals, and is likely to lead to more thorough training of the students and to the furtherance of clinical research. Two additional posts for assistant-physicians have been added.

The vacant post of Kegistrar and Medical Tutor has been filled, and a lecturer in anmstlietics and a radiologist have been added to the stall. These posts exist in every other teaching hospital, and their addition will be of great benefit to the students.

The school stall' has been organised on the manciple that every department should comprise a professor, an assistant-professor (Egyptian), one or more lecturers, one or more demonstrators, and one or more laboratory attendants.

The professor will control his department and direct the teaching and research. The assistant-professor will conduct some branch of the teaching and take the place of the professor when he is absent. The lecturers are on a contract limited to three years, they will do a part of the teaching, and are expected to do research work during their term of olfice. At present three of these posts are filled by Egyptians, three by Englishmen, and two are vacant. It is proposed to appoint suitable Egyptians to them on their return from the Educational Mission as a probation for permanent teaching posts. The demonstrators are half-time posts, on a yearly contract. The laboratory attendants will be trained in the technical work of their department in order to free the teaching staff from the routine work which has hitherto consumed much of their time. With departments staffed in this way the teaching will be much improved, and due opportunity will be given for research.

The curriculum has been entirely revised and made to extend over five years instead of four. The students under this scheme will spend a year on chemistry, physics and biology. Biology, which has hitherto been taught merely by a course of fifty lectures, without practical work, has now been made a serious practical course. The next eighteen months will be devoted wholly to anatomy and pliysiology. The next year will be spent in the study of various subjects, such as pharmacology, which are preparatory to medical work, and the students will also attend out-patients. The two final years are devoted to work in the wards of the hospital.

A site has been secured and plans are being prepared for new buildings for the School of Medicine and Kasr-el-Aini Hospital. The necessity for this has repeatedly been urged by the delegates of the Eoyal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. Meanwhile necessary extensions are being effected in the existing buildings, part of •which it is proposed ultimately to use for the School of Science in the university. A small department has been built for the teaching of throat and ear work, and the physiology department has been enlarged and is being equipped for the teaching of experimental physiology, A research room and store have also been added. The old museum has been cleared out and fitted up as a laboratory for sixty-four students, and a large room for research. There is still very great congestion in the department of chemistry and physics. Enlarged accommodation will be provided for these branches before October next.

These new arrangements will, it is confidently believed, not only raise the value of the general medical training to be obtained in the school but will provide opportunities for post-graduate research, and will prepare for the time when the School of Medicine in its proposed new quarters will form one of the principal elements in the State University. One immediate advantage derived from the reorganisation is that the professor of chemistry has already undertaken to train in his laboratories chemists for service in other Government departments.

I am glad to record that various distinguished medical men, vhose war work in Egypt brought them into contact with Egyptian doctors trained in the Cairo School of Medicine, expressed a high opinion of their professional capacity.

The curriculum of the School of Pharmacy has been revised and extended. The students are now given instruction in chemistry, physics and botany as a preparation for their strictly professional training, and a three months’ acivanced course in pharmaceutics is added immediately before their final examination. The object is to bring this school into line with the schools of pharmacy in the United Kingdom. The number of students has inci-eased from 26 in 1914 to 36. The number who have •obtained their diploma since 1914 is 35.

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