Report from the Select Committee on Medical Department (Army) : together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Medical Department of the Army.
Date:
1856
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    Report, 1856—continued. Mapleton, Henry, M. D. (Analysis of his Evidence)—continued. Stoppage of lod. a day from pay when in hospital, 1377 -There is now no stoppage when on service, 1378. Reference to the constitution of the Medical Board for inquiring into the cases of sick and wounded officers arriving from the Crimea, 1379-1381 Allowance, termed blood-money, to wounded officers with a view to medical attendance on arrival home, 1382, 1383 System of pension for wounds adverted to, 1383-1386 Doubt as to the necessity of any further steps for providing for wounded or sick officers on arrival in this country, 1387, 1388. Slight improvement required in order to render the present system of hospital orderlies all that is desirable for regimental hospitals, 1389-1393 Impropriety in sick officers ever being obliged to pay for their medicines, 1394, 1395 Witness has never experienced any difficulties in regard to supplies of drugs, leeches, trusses, &c, and sometimes procures them locally, being reimbursed from head-quarters without difficulty, 139G-1400 Form of certificate in regard to officers on sick leave selling out, 1401- 1405. Grounds for objecting to the proposed dispensers, with the rank of ensigns and the pay of assistant-surgeons, 1406-1430 Strong approval of the surgeon being allowed to select a corporal or private as dispenser, who should be recognised as doing the duty, and have some additional inducement for undertaking it, 1407-1416. 1420-1422 Inexpediency of the present certificate by the medical officer that he makes up all the medicines, it being impossible for him to do so, 1412. 1417-1419——Medical men have power to resign at any moment, subject to the approval of the Commander of the Forces on the spot, 1421-1431. Marine Hospital (Chatham). Admirable condition some years ago of the marine hospital at Chatham, Lord De lios 2613, 2614. Martin, James Ranald, F.R.S. (Analysis of his Evidence.)—Was staff-surgeon in the Bengal army when he retired ; had seen twenty-two years' medical service in various capacities, 1456-1459 Adequacy, intrinsically, of the pay and pensions in the medical department of the East jndia Company, 1460, 1461. 1536 et seg. 'Inadequacy of the number of grades and of the honorary distinctions, 1461. 1536. 1542-1545 The grades are assistant-surgeon, regimental surgeon, and superintending surgeon ; corres- ponding grades in the Queen's service, 1462-1467. Constitution of the Medical Board in India by seniority ; it comprises the three oldest members in the service, 1463, 1464. 1468 Objection to the principle of seniority in the administrative department, 1463. 1512, 1513. 1574 Recent depaiture by Lord Dalhousie from the rule of seniority, 1464 Particulars relative to warrant officers attached to the hospitals in India, one class to superintend the Commissariat department, the other class to compound the medicines ; the system works exceedingly well, 1469-1485. Deviation advisable from the present rule of promotion of assistant-surgeons by seniority, 1486-1488 Employment of assistant-surgeons in the absence of the surgeons, 1489. 1570 Inadequate number of medical officers attached to the Indian legiments, 1490-1495 Plan of supernumerary officers proposed by Lord Dalhousie in order to meet contingencies, 1490. 1496, 1497 In European regiments there are generally one surgeon and two assistant-surgeons, 1498, 1499. Evidence, in complaint, that the rank of surgeons and assistant-surgeons in the Indian army is not substantive, and is extremely uncertain, 1500-]504. 15H-1531 Limited extent to which the substantive rank of the medical officer should partake of the military character, 1504-1506. 1514-1523 Disadvantage to the discipline and medical efficiency of the Bengal army in the native regiments being so much scattered in detach- ments, 1507, 1508 Juxtaposition into which the medical officers of the Company's service and the Queen's service are brought, 1509, 1510. Decided improvement if in lieu of a Medical Board in India there were one adminis- trative responsible head, 151 1 Adininistiative duties of the superintending-surgeon, 1532 He does not interfere with the treatment pursued by the regimental surgeons, 1533- 1535 Sundry advantages of the Indian medical service over the Queen's service, in regard to pay, special allowance, civil employment, private practice, leave of absence, and retirement, 1536-1614. Conditions and terms of retirement; there is full pay after seventeen years' service, and leave of absence counts, 1541. 1546-1551. 1566-1568. 1587-1607. 1613, 1614 Boon if any act certified as meritorious were to count for a year's service, 1565 Promotion is often very slow, 1572, 1573 Increased pay commences immediately on promotion being gazetted, 1575-1577 System lately of competition for appointments; anticipated good effects thereof, 1579-1584. 0.49. Y y 4 Importance