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(Gazette of India, January 3.) Under instructions from the Secretary of State for India, the Governor-General in Council is pleased Hon'ble tlie Eight to direct the following changes in the organization of the Medical Administrative Staff for the Army in India. From the 31st March 1880, tlie British Army Medical Department and the Indian Medical Department will form one department for the medical administration of the Army in Army

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1 Secretary to Surgeon-General, at Head Quarters. Army Medical Department 1 Secretary to Surgeon-General, Medical Department^ Indian The statistical duties for the Army, British and Native, will be performed by the Statistical Officer attached to the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India. The eleven circles of medical superintendence wall be distributed as follows, each being held by a Deputy Surgeon-

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With the exceptions which are named below, all those officers will be relieved from any civil administrative duties they may have hitherto performed. The Deputy Surgeons-General of the Eastern Frontier District and of the British Burmah Division will, in addition to their military duties, exercise the civil medical administration of their respective provinces, and will also perform the duties of Sanitary Commissioner in them. The Deputy Surgeons-General of the Punjab Frontier Force and of the Sind District will exercise the civil medical administration of those pi-ovinces. After making provision for the civil medical administration of the remaining provinces of British India, the establishment for which will be duly notified in the proper department, there will remain, below the rank of Surgeon-General, in excess of the establishment to be maintained for all duties?

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Arm;/ Medical Department, 2 Deputy Surgeons-General. 3 Superintending Surgeons-Major. 2 Secretaries to Surgeons-General. 1 Statistical Officer to Surgeon-General. Indian Medical Service. 6 Deputy Surgeons-General. Orders have been already issued by Her Majesty's Government for the withdrawal of the surplus administrative officers of the Army Medical Department. With a view to provide for the retirement, on favourable terms, of the surplus officer of the Indian Medical Service, the Eight Hon'ble the Governor-General in Council is pleased to offer to the Surgeons-General and the Deputy SurgeonsGeneral of the three Armies their retirement on the extra step of rank, notpension of their grade, with an honorary withstanding that they may not have completed the qualifying service of these pensions. The number of retirements in each army will be restricted to two. The option of retirement will be given in order of seniority; but applications to retire, which must be made to the Military Department of the Government to which the officer belongs, cannot be accepted after the 1st March 1880.

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