Report and evidence taken by the Committee appointed to enquire into the pay, status, and conditions of service of the medical officers of the army : with evidence concerning the Indian Service and some of the more important appendices. April 1890.

  • Great Britain. War Office. Committee on the Pay, Status and Conditions of Service of Medical Officers of the Army [and Navy].
Date:
1890
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Credit: Report and evidence taken by the Committee appointed to enquire into the pay, status, and conditions of service of the medical officers of the army : with evidence concerning the Indian Service and some of the more important appendices. April 1890. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From a financial point of view considerable economy would be effected by carrying out such a proposal. We recommend a grant not exceeding 500/. for Officers retiring after six years’ service, retaining also the present right to retire with a gratuity of 1,000/. after 10 years’ service. Comparing this with the present rates and conditions of retirement, the Actuary at the War Office states that the country would gain to the extent of nearly 500/. in each case. The chief advantage of such a system would be that these Officers, who would Ite young men, would be available for foreign service during the whole of their term in the Army. The increasing unpopularity, and the increasing length of foreign service is one of the chief difficulties of the Army Medical Service of the future. The system \\e advocate is that which is now in force in the Naval Medical Department, Officers in that Service being permitted to retire with a gratuity of 8, 12, and 10 years’ full pay service. It should not necessarily follow that a short service Officer must leave the Army at the expiration of his term. If lie wishes to remain, and if the Director-General of the Army Medical Department is of opinion that it would be advantageous that he should do so, he might continue in the Service on the same terms as other Officers. (Signed) CAMPERDOWN. N. C. MAONAMARA. LIST OF WITN ESSES. Alison, General, Sir Archibald, G.C.B.; Barker, Surgeon, F. 11. ; Beattie, Brigade Surgeon, J. F., M.I).; Beeler, Major-General, Sir Redvers II., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., V.C., Quarter-Master-General; Cambridge, ILR.1I. the Duke of, K.G., Com- mander-in-Chief; Clarke, Brigade Surgeon, A.; Crawford, Sir Thomas, M.I)., K.C.B., Q.H.S., Director-General of the Army Medical Department; Davies, Surgeon, A. M.; Don, Deputy Surgeon-General, W. G., M.D.; Harman, Major- General, Sir G. B., K.C.B., Military Secretary; Johnson, Lieutenant-General. A. B., C.B.; Joiinston, Surgeon-Major, W., M.D. ; Knox, Ralph H., Esq., C.B., Accountant-General, War Office ; Mackinnon, Surgeon-General, W., C.B., Director- General of the Army Medical Department; Madden, Surgeon-General, C. D. ; Marshall, John, Asc. F.R.C.8., F.R.S., LL.D., President, General Medical Council; Moore, Norman, Esq.,, M.D., St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Mouat, Surgeon-General, J. , C.B., Q.IIS., V.C.; Pearce, Walter, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.P., St. Mary’s Hospital; Poynder, Surgeon, G. F.; Robinson, Denham, Esq., Actuary, War Office; Stewart, General, Sir Donald M., Bart., G.C.B., G.C.S.I.; Thompson, Sir Ralph W., K. C.B., Permanent Under Secretary of Srate for War; Upton, James R., Esq., Clerk of the Society of Apothecaries of London ; Wolsei.ev, General, Viscount. K.P., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., Adjutant-General.