HC Deb 09 February 1943 vol 386 c1194W
Sir W. Smiles

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many doctors, and how many from each island group, qualified at the Central Medical School in Suva during the year 1941; and how many nurses, and how many from each island group, qualified during the same year?

Colonel Stanley

Owing to the change from a three years' course to one of four years for medical students at the Central Medical School in Suva, there was no entry class in 1938 and therefore no fourth year students in 1941 and no qualifying examination was held in that year. As regards the second part of the Question, I have no information as to the number of nurses who qualified in 1941 out of the 50 pupils undergoing training, but I am asking the Governor to furnish particulars.