Grievances of surgeons, Indian Medical Service.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Grievances of surgeons, Indian Medical Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there xvere twenty-two competitors, the best of them was beaten by candidates for the A. M. D. and Navy—a disgrace vvhich happens for the first time in the history of the service. The only chance of redress lies in united agitation ; the situation calls loudly and distinctly for Defence Committees. The subject is probably aj) uninteresting one to the majority of your readers; and should you grant me so much of your valuable space as to publish this letter, it nniay bring to hasty and unsympathetic lips the frequent remark—^' Confound these doctors ; here they are, writing tp the papers again. But if it should succeed in inciting any one junior to join a Defence Committee or write a letter, you will have aided the cause of a badly-used service, and I will cheerfully take the chance of the opprobium which always faJIs on, and top often is the only reward of, A MAN WITH A GRIEVANCE. Extract from Pioneer, April 27th, 1883, MEDICAL GRIEVANOfg. To THE Editor. Sir,—Since you have been good enough to publish several letters relating to the grievances of the Iqdian Mejdical Service from various rnembers of that service, I have constantly heard ft §tated that the writing of the letters tp the Indian Press is simple agitation, and that this agitation is quite inexcusable. ! What we ^re indignant about is that we (in contradiction to what we understood before entering the service) are actually drawing less pay than officers of our rank and standing in the Array Medical Department—we who have agreed to serve our lives in this weary and monotonous land. Why should we