Report of the Statistical Committee of the General Medical Council, containing a summary of statistics regarding medical students registered as such in the year 1871 ...

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1885
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    Table VIII. Table setting forth, under the several intervals (from 0 to IH years), the numbers of Medical Students of England, who having been registered in the Students' Register in the several years indicated, occupied the specified times in taking their first qualification (this being in many instances, however, taken simultaneously with the second, as shown in Table III ). 1871 1872 1873 1874 1876 1876 1877 1 1878 187S» 1880 Totals Aver- age* Total numbers regis-| tered as Students in > the several years J 563 636 674 635 629 712 772 843 996 996 7456 745-6 0 1 2 3 0-3 1 1 2 2 4 2 2 3 1 17 1-7 2 1 4 6 10 3 6 5 1 6 2 44 4:4: 3 57 60 67 47 34 44 28 31 15 20 403 40-3 136 157 140 136 166 149 184 143 147 122 1480 1480 Intervals in years : 110 121 108 142 136 141 139 178 203 1278 142 0 from registration as Student to Date 86 87 547 68-4 6 43 54 73 68 61 75 of First Qualifica- ]7 26 24 37 30 28 32 39 216 30-9 tion 8 17 16 13 13 14 21 94 15 7 9 3 8 8 15 10 44 8-8 10 9 7 12 5 33 8-3 11 3 4 7 14 4-7 12 3 4 7 3-5 as 1 1 10 Totals . 409 461 473 468 456 470 483 440 376 145 4181 4780 The final average given above (478-0), indicates that (on the average of the spaces already filled up) 478 out of 745-6 would qualify within 13 years, and that, accordingly, out of the 7,456 English Students actually registered in the decennium, there is yet to come a balance of at least 4,780-4,181 ( = 599) qualified practitioners on fhe Medual Ih-gister. If the percentage of the year 1871, viz., 72-65, were maintained, we might expect a balance of 5,417-4,181 (==1,236).