Grievances of surgeons, Indian Medical Service.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Grievances of surgeons, Indian Medical Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tricked'and deceived, and that there is nothing for them to do and no pay for doing it, everyone must confess that it is a state of affairs calculated to make the pill rather bitter. Is it fair, I ask, to allow m.en to be thus deceived ; to have the early years of their service embittered, not merely by cheating natives, but by a general and almost fruitless struggle with comparative poverty, whereas a misleading prospectus of the India Office led them to believe that there should be enough and to spare. If from the Indian Surgeon you take his spurs—as has been lately done by regulations;—if you deprive him of all prestige <A military woxV ; if you allow him to be all but passed over when rewards are lavished for service in the field (as was done after the Egyptian campaign) ; yet surely it is due to his education and important calling that he should at least receive the emolu- ment which he is promised, so that he may not be at once the least respected, and worst paid, junior in the Military world. One of them. ExirdiQi from Civil and Military Gazette, March 27th, 1883. THE INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE. To THE Editor. Sir,—Will you kindly allow me space in your paper to add my dictum, to that of your correspondent ONE OF THE.M in issue of i6th instant with whom I have a fellow feeling and a common grievance ? I can bear him out as to the delusion imposed upon us by that prospectus of the Indian Medical Service, which states that the pay of a Surgeon under five years' service will be Rs. 450 a month, but that the lower rate of pay Rs. 286-10 only will be allowed until the examination in Hindustani by the Lower Standard is passed. It is surely an anomalous state of affairs that we should receive less pay than the bare pay of rank,