cordially agree with these sentiments of the editor of the of India. We are aware that the Viceroy has an infinity weighty questions to decide ; but the reorganization of the

We

Friend of

Indian Medical Service has this claim to Lord North brook's less than twelve years

consideration, that it has been for

no

before the

day

the confusion

arising complicated departments and sub-divisions, is becoming more confounded. Beyond this we may truly say that' hope deferred,' &c., and it is with a feeling akin to this that we wait with anxiety to hear if the Viceroy from

Government,

the

and every

arrangements of its

has been able to take up this matter, and to follow out the we believe, he was prepared to recommend to the

plan which,

Home Government?a

acceptable

plan which, majority of the would most certainly

to the

Service, and and

new

designations honorary rank

?ljc fintrian JlMctrtcal a?ctte. AUGUST 1, 1873.

THE NEW INDIAN MEDICAL WARRANT. The Friend

of

India makes the

following remarks regarding gives to the Indian Medical that recently arranged for medical officers

the new medical warrant, which

Service rank equal to of the British army.

The editor writes :?" Wo do not know

that it will be received

as a

boon.

The abolition of the term

promotion of Surgeon to be SurgeonMajor after twelve years' service, or earlier on the Viceroy's recommendation; selection by merit for the ranks of Deputy Surgeon-General and Surgeon-General; and the nomination of six honorary Physicians and six honorary Surgeons to the Queen, aro the principal features. What the country surely wants, at once for economy and efficiency, is, rather to see Lord Northbrook'a scheme of a Civil and Military Medical Serivce formed from the two sets of doctors for whom India pays, without securing the benefits, that proper organization would give. Under this scheme, Assistant

which

we

Surgeon;

the

described some months ago, the head of the Civil subordinate to the Government would bo

Department

directly

or Deputy Surgeon-General present with the Provincial Governments, while a career is given to the skilled and upright native Sub-Assistant Surgeon, by giving him charge of a sepoy corps. We trust Lord

of India with

a

Surgeon-General

Nortlibrook will bo allowed to carry out this scheme before the final report of the East India Finance Committee on our excessivo, because double, medical expenditure renders efficient reform difficult."

Sub" may

fairly

be abolished.

Medical

improved the status serving in this country. an

alteration in the

of the apothecary class

and of Sub-Assistant

now

would have been

have

warrant appears to involve of members

"

think,

members of the

of Indian medical officers

efficiency

The

we

Surgeons.

holding

The obnoxious