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 IX. Table setting forth, under tbe several intervals (from 0 to 13 years, the ndmbees of Medical Students of Scotland, who having been eegisteked in the Students' Register in the several years as 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 1878 1879 1880 Totals Aver- ages :ial number regis- . ered as Students in j> hhe several years J 339 324 341 346 422 413 468 482 610 547 4192 419-2 0 1 1 1 4 0-4 ] i 3 2 1 2 1 2 7 2 24 2-4 2 3 3 5 1 1 2 4 5 9 33 3-3 3 10 10 12 7 12 10 21 9 8 13 112 11-2 i 88 94 98 89 101 128 130 141 131 95 1095 109-5 eervals in years iTom registration lis Student to Date ^ ■if First Qualifica- ;i;ion : 7 8 64 25 21 11 55 31 14 6 57 26 16 15 56 26 17 16 75 33 24 13 68 41 15 9 79 33 14 73 36 80 597 251 121 70 66-3 31-4 17-3 11-7 9 5 3 4 5 6 23 4-6 10 3 4 4 6 17 4-3 11 2 4 3 9 3-0 12 0 00 ^13 1 1 10 Totals .. 237 224 244 226. 267 263 280 265. 232 119 2357 265-4 The final average given above (265-4) indicates that (on the average of the spaces already filled up) 265-4 out of 419-2 would qualify within 13 years, and that accordingly out of the 4,192 Scotch Students actually registered in the decennium there is yet to come a balance of at least 2,654 —2,357 ( = 297) qualified practitioners on the Begister. If the per- centage of the year 1871, viz., 69-91, were maintained, we might expect a balance of 2,931-2,357 ( = 574).