Comments on the recommendations of the committee appointed to inquire into the position of the medical officers of the Army and Navy / by Frederick James Brown.

  • Brown, Frederick James, 1824-1879
Date:
1866
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    Requisitions of the Medical Officers of the Royal Navy. (See second edition of my pamphlet.) 18 Recommendations of the Committee. Hospital; after the plan adopted in the Army, at Chelsea, and that professional instruction by a course of lectures and attendance at Haslar be given to medical officers on first entry, in some measure on the system adopted at Netley Hospital. Some of the medi- cal witnesses have stated that it is desirable that naval boards of survey should be made purely medical boards as they are in the Army; on this question, however, the com- mittee are not agreed, and therefore offer no opinion. There remain some other recommendations to be com- mented on, viz.— 9. That a staff-surgeon should be appointed to all flag-ships bearing the flag of a commander-in-chief on fo- reign stations, with an allow- ance of 5s. a-day in addition to his established pay. 12. That they [naval medi- cal officers] should have equal consideration for Greenwich Hospital pensions with other officers of the service. 13. That assistant-surgeons after completing their time for examination for the rank of surgeon, be granted two months* leave of absence on full pay, on the condition of their resuming their studies at a medical school or hospital.