Fee at the Medical School for Women, if paid as a composition fee in five yearly instalments of L28, L51, L45, L40, and L15; Total:—­L179, or, if the whole sum is paid on entrance to the school, L160.  In addition there is a fee of three guineas for the special study of fevers.  These fees include everything in the way of material, except books and instruments for which it is wise to allow another L30.  The examination fees of the university are L25.  These amounts make no allowance for any failures, and consequent revision of work, and re-entry for examination.  In reckoning the expense, the necessary cost of living for the six years must also be included.  For those students whose homes are not in London there are flats and boarding-houses where it is possible to live very reasonably.  Suitable board and residence can be obtained from about 25s. a week.

For the Diploma of the Conjoint Board.

The school fees are the same; the examination fees are, however, higher, namely L42.

For other qualifications, the school fees are L20 less for the course.

Certain scholarships are available for students, of which all particulars can be obtained from the secretary of each school.

When a woman becomes a registered medical practitioner, she is for the first time legally entitled to treat patients herself, and is entrusted with responsibility.  As in most other branches of knowledge in the world, while she has simply been learning and carrying out her duties under authority, she has had no opportunity of really testing her own knowledge.  It is, therefore, very generally felt amongst newly qualified medical practitioners that they need more experience before undertaking quite independent medical work.  This experience is best gained by taking hospital posts.  By this is meant positions of moderate responsibility, such as that of resident house physician or resident house surgeon in a hospital, where the newly qualified doctor is under the authority of an experienced visiting “chief,” but is expected to deal with ordinary incidents as they may arise, to realise the relative importance of different symptoms, and report those that matter to the visiting physician or surgeon.

It is at this stage that the doctor must decide whether she wishes to become

  (a) a “specialist” in some particular branch
       of medicine or surgery,
  (b) a general practitioner, or
  (c) whether she wishes to work in the public
       service.

(a) If she wishes to be a specialist she must so arrange her future work as to gain experience in the branch which she selects.  For this purpose it is necessary to take posts at special hospitals, and ultimately to become a member of the staff of some hospital in the department chosen.  Here women find that they are heavily handicapped.  The only hospital of any size in London of which the members of staff are all women is the New Hospital, Euston Road, and this admits only of a small staff, giving opportunities to comparatively few women for special experience.