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35: 332: 281:. He was replaced by Edwin Lawson Koch. In 1876 the government started providing scholarships which provided free education at the school and post-graduate studies in Britain. Koch died in 1877 and was replaced by Julian Louis Vanderstraatcn. The school was renamed Ceylon Medical College in 1880. The college's course length was extended to five years in 1884. 303:
The college started admitting female students in 1892. Allan Perry took over from Vanderstraatcn in 1898. In 1905 two ordinances were passed relating to the college. The Council of the Ceylon Medical College was incorporated by Ordinance No. 3 1905. Ordinance No. 5 1905 (Medical Registration
232:, to investigate the depopulation. Amongst Loos' recommendations was that there should be a plan for medical education in the country. The Colombo Medical School was opened on 1 June 1870 by Governor Robinson. The school was based in the female surgical ward of the then General Hospital in 236:. The school was controlled by the government's Principal Civil Medical Officer. The school's courses lasted five years after which students sat examinations and if they passed they received a diploma of 274:. His son Mudaliyar J. W. C. de Soysa provided the funds to build the bacteriological institute in 1899. Other benefactors included Muhandiram A. Simon Fernando Wijegooneratne and Vimala Gunawardane. 304:
Ordinance) allowed the Council of the Ceylon Medical College to register individuals (including holders of the Colombo LMS) allowed to practice medicine and surgery in Ceylon.
240:(LMS). This allowed them to practice medicine and surgery. The school had lecture rooms, laboratories, dissecting rooms and two libraries. Physics and chemistry was taught at 1652: 251:, including land and buildings, provided by locals. In 1875 Mudaliyar Samson Rajapakse gifted three and a half acres of land on which the school's successor, the 1642: 1647: 1212: 1290: 1222: 296:. This recognition meant that holders of the Colombo LMS were registered medical practitioners under the Medical Act 1886 and could practice anywhere in the 1462: 1457: 634: 1237: 1167: 814:
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The school's course length was extended to four years in 1873. Loos left the school in 1875 after being appointed colonial surgeon for the
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On 29 December 1887 the school's LMS diploma was recognised by the
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disease in the 1860s, leading to a massive depopulation in the
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on 1 July 1942 by amalgamating Ceylon Medical College with
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Index

Colombo Medical School

Public
Colombo
Western Province
Ceylon
06°55′08.30″N 79°52′16.30″E / 6.9189722°N 79.8711944°E / 6.9189722; 79.8711944
public
medical school
Ceylon
Colombo
Ceylon University College
University of Ceylon
Bengal Medical College
Calcutta
Stewart-Mackenzie
British Governor
Ceylon
Samuel Fisk Green
private medical school
Manipay
George William Anderson
yaws
Vanni
Hercules Robinson
Northern Province
Colombo
Licentiate of Medicine and Surgery
Ceylon Technical College
endowments

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