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. Smith, Andrew, M.D. (Analysis of his Evideuce)—continued. affecting promotion not being codified or published, 4549-4556. 4598, 4599 Invari- able observance of the roster in regard to sending officers on foreign service, 4561 Ai rangement, completed about three months ago, whereby the Ordnance medical officers are treated precisely in the same way as the officers of the line, and are open to promotion into line regiments, 4562-4568. Statement to the effect that cavalry surgeons should be the last to complain of harsh treatment, 4569 Hardship, till remedied by witness, in promoting a junior officer because the senior officer was at the time incapable through sickness, ibi Explanation in defence of witness's practice in regard to promotions by selection, 4570-4597 Further statement as to the reliance placed on confidential reports, and as to their non- communication to the implicated officer, 4572-4581. Single instance, in witness's recollection, of the Commander-in-Chief having objected to the recommendation of the Director-general, 4583-4586 Selection of Dr. Hall as inspector-ueneral further considered and defended, 4589-4597 Absence of any special instructions by witness to the chief medical officers with the army in the field, 4600- 4605- Excellent instructions issued by Dr. Hall, whose duty it was, subject to the Commander-in-Chief, to make regulations for supply in the event of any movement of the army, 4606-4612 Date of the arrivals of medical stores and comforts in the East, 4614-4617. Evidence opposed to the employment of non-commissioned officers or privates for com- pounding and dispensing medicines, 4618 et seq. Sundry instances of accidents, some of a fatal character, through the system of Serjeants, corporals, or privates as dispensers, 4618-462,]. 4642,4643. 4647. 4654,4655 Order, dated January 1846, prohibiting the medical'officers from delegating the duty of dispensing, 4618, 4619- Witness is bound to believe that the dispensing is actually done by the medical officer, as he signs a certificate to that effect, 4619. 4625-4631 Service of witness in different grades adverted to in connexion with his promotion, 4632-4640. - Theie aie 147 non-commissioned officers in the medical staff corps ; error of Captain Bunbury hereon, 4648 Origination by witness of the medical staff corps, 4649-4651 Opposition made by witness to the employment of pensioners for the ambulance coips, 4652, 4653 Doubt as to the medical officers or non-commissioned officers being better educated now than they were thirty years ago, 4654-4658 Under certain circumstances the medical officer should decline to sign the certificate relative to officers selling cut, or should give some explanation in signing it, 4659, 4660. Smyrna Hospital. Belief as to the bad working of the .hospital through the want of military discipline, Lord De Eos 2597. 2638, 2639. Report of eminent medical men upon which Mr. Sidney Herbert established the hospital at Smyrna, Sir B. Haices 3383. 3450 Satisfactory result of the hospital, save for a short time after its establishment, ib. 3392, 3393. 3397 Retention of the hospital up to a recent date, notwithstanding the establishment of Renkioi, ib. 3394- 339^- Special Services. See Distinguished Sej'vices. Splints. Want of splints after the battle of the Alma, Bostock 2979-2984. Staff Surgeons. Difference, as regards independent action, between a staff assistant- surgeon and a regimental assistant-surgeon, Mapleton 1154, 1155- 1166-1171 Instead of incteasing the staff surgeons, they should be done away with altogether, ib. 1181, 1182——Undue control at present vested in staff surgeons of the first class, ib. 1191-1209. 1214 System of promotion of staff surgeons adverted to, as showing that selection being resorted to, they are rot necessarily senior to regimental surgeons, ib. 1199-1202. 1211-1213. 1246,1247 Similar pay and rank of a staff surgeon of the second class and a regimental surgeon, ib. 1248-1250. Objection to the rank of staff surgeon of the second class, Mapleton 1255 Extent of du.y devolving 011 the second class staff surgeon?, ib. 1256, 1257 The staff surgeon should be an executive officer, Darliiell 2383 Importance of regimental experience in staff surgeons, Mackenzie 3068, 3069. Recommendation by the Director-general that staff surgeons of the first class be termed surgeons-major, and staff surgeons of the second class should simply be termed staff surgeons, App.p. 315. Resolution that no medical officer shall be promoted to be staff surgeon of the first class until he shall have served not less than three years as a regimental medical officer, Rep. p. iii. See also Number of Medical Officers. Pay. Promotion. Surgeons-Major. Stoppages from Pay of Sick Soldiers. See Hospital Stoppages. Study.