Important official documents relative to the disagreements between the members of the late Army Medical Board. Not included among the papers printed by order of the House of Commons.

  • Great Britain. Army Medical Services
Date:
1810
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Credit: Important official documents relative to the disagreements between the members of the late Army Medical Board. Not included among the papers printed by order of the House of Commons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sistant Inspectors employed on foreign service and in the General Hospitals at home, and for the same reason must be equally entitled to nominate such of those officers as were to he employed under me. To this he professed to agree, and promised to content himself with the nomina¬ tion of those only who should be employed at home in the Inspection of Regimental Hospitals; and, on this assur¬ ance, I readily acquiesced in Mr. Knight’s desire. But having gained this ground lie seems to have availed him¬ self of it, contrary to his profession, to make a further encroachment; for it did happen that the Commander in Chief was soon persuaded that there ought to beno distinc¬ tion whatsoever in the situation of Inspectors and Deputy Inspectors, whether at home or abroad, and that the recom¬ mendation and appointment should be indiscriminately and exclusively vested in the Inspector General of Hos¬ pitals; I accordingly received a notification to that effect from Colonel Clinton in April 1804, in answer to an ap¬ plication from me upon that subject, dated the ] 1th of that month. Tr . , lti* , , T Mr. Knight Having thus extended his patronage, Mr. Knight had changes their soon afterwards an opportunity of increasing its value, Jhar pay/3^-* by procuring in May following, an abolition of the title of Assistant Inspector, and giving to those who held it the name of Deputy Inspector, with an addition of 5s. per diem to their pay.—In these several ways he first greatly increased the number of inspectorial officers, by employing them exclusively for the duties which had been previously performed by physicians and surgeons; also, in the next place, he obtained the exclusive nomina¬ tion of the officers whose number was so increased, and afterwards augmented the value of those multiplied ap¬ pointments. The office of Assistant Inspector had been created eight or ten years before, in favour of particular surgeons, who could 'not, according to the Physician General’s Regu¬ lation, be made physicians; but who were thought deserving of some equivalent promotion. Although