EXCHANGE INTO THE BRITISH MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. TO TIIE EDITOR 01? THE
SlB,?Can
"
INDIAN
MEDICAL
GAZETTE."
inform
me whether officers of the you kindly Indian medical department may join the British medical service should they volunteer to do so. It would seem that there could be no objection as officers of both services have passed the same entrance examination, went through a similar course at Netley, and have since practised the same profession. As there is some difficulty in obtaining candidates for the British medical service, and that difficulty is not experienced in the Indian service, if officers of the latter were allowed to join the former, a sufficiency of surgeons might be obtained for the British service while the places of thesa officers could be easily filled up by fresh candidates for the Indian medical service. There are, I am sure, several young surgeons of the Indian service who would now prefer to join the sister service, but if some rule should prevent that, they might surely, as is permissible in every other branch of the army, be allowed to exchange with medical officers of the British service. A boon would thus be conferred on many officers of both services, and the interests of the army served in various ways.
Yours
faithfully, A Subscribed.
May 1875. [Exchange from one service to under present regulations.?Ed., Gth
the other is not I. If. (?.]
practicable
SlB,?Can
"
INDIAN
MEDICAL
GAZETTE."
inform
me whether officers of the you kindly Indian medical department may join the British medical service should they volunteer to do so. It would seem that there could be no objection as officers of both services have passed the same entrance examination, went through a similar course at Netley, and have since practised the same profession. As there is some difficulty in obtaining candidates for the British medical service, and that difficulty is not experienced in the Indian service, if officers of the latter were allowed to join the former, a sufficiency of surgeons might be obtained for the British service while the places of thesa officers could be easily filled up by fresh candidates for the Indian medical service. There are, I am sure, several young surgeons of the Indian service who would now prefer to join the sister service, but if some rule should prevent that, they might surely, as is permissible in every other branch of the army, be allowed to exchange with medical officers of the British service. A boon would thus be conferred on many officers of both services, and the interests of the army served in various ways.
Yours
faithfully, A Subscribed.
May 1875. [Exchange from one service to under present regulations.?Ed., Gth
the other is not I. If. (?.]
practicable
