Governor-General in Council is pleased to notify that, in future, an officer of the Indian Medical Service, when holding no specific appointment, will be allowed the rates of pay drawn by officers of the Army Medical Department. When holding any appointment, permanent or acting, he will draw either the
consolidated pay fixed for that
appointment or unemployed pay (to be designated in grade pay") with full or half staff salary or charge allowance, under existing rules, provided that the total be not less than the grade pay laid down in Article 301, Army Regulations, India, Vol. I, Part I." This order came as a welcome, although not unreasonable, concession, removing as it did the grievance of unemployed pay and placing officers of the service who had entered since the 7th November 1864 on the same footing as their brethren whose commissions bore a prior date. At the same time it abolished a ground of invidious comparison with the future
"
sister service. The dream
has, however, been a short-lived one, at least large portion of the members of the service. On the 20th May 1885 another Army Circular was issued effecting a so-called correction," and substituting the an officer" in the words a surgeon" for the words
as
regards
a
"
"
"
former document.
Thus at one fell swoop all those medical officers who had served the Indian Government for upwards of twelve years were deprived of advantages which, for three and a half months, they were led to believe had been secured to them. A few weeks ago, the Under-Secretary of State for India informed the House that the Government of India had been referred to for a statement of future possible retrenchments. Can this be the result of the reference, and under the cloak of correction are the shears being applied to a defenceless department 1
SURGEON-MAJOR. 1Sth
June,
1885.
" [The hardship of the system of unemployed pay" pressed almost exclusively upon the Junior Surgeons of the service; and these have had their grievance removed by the above-mentioned order on tlie subject. Exceptional cases will, however, occur now and then where medical officers above the grade of surgeon may be actively emploj-ed without holding any specific appointment, so that, in justice to such officers, it seems to us that the order, as originally worded, ought to have been allowed to stand unmodified, as our correspondent contends.?Ed., 1. M. G.]
(EoiTCipitdCUCij. UNEMPLOYED PAY OF To the
Editor,
"
SURGEONS-MAJOR.
Indian Medical Gazette."
Sir,?I trust you will be good enough to allow me space in your columns to invite attention to what I venture to consider an act of injustice on the part of Government towards the officers of the Indian Medical Service. On the 6th
1885 an India Army Circular was revised rates of pay for officers of the
February
published, granting
Indian Medical Service in the following terms : " Under instructions from Her Majesty's Government the ?
consolidated pay fixed for that
appointment or unemployed pay (to be designated in grade pay") with full or half staff salary or charge allowance, under existing rules, provided that the total be not less than the grade pay laid down in Article 301, Army Regulations, India, Vol. I, Part I." This order came as a welcome, although not unreasonable, concession, removing as it did the grievance of unemployed pay and placing officers of the service who had entered since the 7th November 1864 on the same footing as their brethren whose commissions bore a prior date. At the same time it abolished a ground of invidious comparison with the future
"
sister service. The dream
has, however, been a short-lived one, at least large portion of the members of the service. On the 20th May 1885 another Army Circular was issued effecting a so-called correction," and substituting the an officer" in the words a surgeon" for the words
as
regards
a
"
"
"
former document.
Thus at one fell swoop all those medical officers who had served the Indian Government for upwards of twelve years were deprived of advantages which, for three and a half months, they were led to believe had been secured to them. A few weeks ago, the Under-Secretary of State for India informed the House that the Government of India had been referred to for a statement of future possible retrenchments. Can this be the result of the reference, and under the cloak of correction are the shears being applied to a defenceless department 1
SURGEON-MAJOR. 1Sth
June,
1885.
" [The hardship of the system of unemployed pay" pressed almost exclusively upon the Junior Surgeons of the service; and these have had their grievance removed by the above-mentioned order on tlie subject. Exceptional cases will, however, occur now and then where medical officers above the grade of surgeon may be actively emploj-ed without holding any specific appointment, so that, in justice to such officers, it seems to us that the order, as originally worded, ought to have been allowed to stand unmodified, as our correspondent contends.?Ed., 1. M. G.]
(EoiTCipitdCUCij. UNEMPLOYED PAY OF To the
Editor,
"
SURGEONS-MAJOR.
Indian Medical Gazette."
Sir,?I trust you will be good enough to allow me space in your columns to invite attention to what I venture to consider an act of injustice on the part of Government towards the officers of the Indian Medical Service. On the 6th
1885 an India Army Circular was revised rates of pay for officers of the
February
published, granting
Indian Medical Service in the following terms : " Under instructions from Her Majesty's Government the ?
