A contribution to the medical history of our west African campaigns / by Albert A. Gore.
- Gore, Albert A.
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A contribution to the medical history of our west African campaigns / by Albert A. Gore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![1S48- C. Alux. Gordon, M.D.; A. J. Dolce, P. Henry Roe, J. Ii. Smith, M.D.; John Waller, W. F. Daniell, F. A. Ringdon, John Robertson. 1S-19—Thomas Kchoe, Andrew J. Waters, David 0. Pitcairn. 1850—John Berry, W. R./i'hompson, M.D. 1551— Fitz M. T. Denis. 1552— R. G. Fitzgibbon, J. Headley, H. G. Rinkyn. 1853— -R. W. Frazer, M.D.; Robert Bradshaw, E. H. Brien, Ed. Akers. 1854— James Davys, W. C. Hcwatson, M.D.; Thomas Partridge, Charles F. Abbott, W. Tydd Harding, W. M. Skues, M. B. 1S55—G. Power, M.D. 1S5G—Wm. Skeen. 1857—P. A. M'Dermott, Aug. Morphew, Wm. Page, Fr. Oakes, Curtis Mar- tin, T. C. Beale, Janies Lauder, W. B. Trestrail, F. S. G. Gunn, John Bradshaw, Thomas B. Teevan, H. S. E. Shroeder, James H. Horton, William Davis. Fifty-eight officers in eighteen years, an average of 3-2 annually. A large number lie buried in Africa; nine are still actively employed, viz., Surgeon-General Gordon, C.B., Principal Medical Office, Madras; Surgeon-Major Hendley, Bengal; Harding, Gibraltar; Skues, 26th Came- ronians; Skeen, 65th Foot; Martin, 58th, Brigade Depot; Morphew, 27tli Regiment; Oakes, 56th Foot; Gunn, 99th Regiment. Up to the year 1858, there had been no printed regulations for the African Medical Service. Since 1840 it had been recruited as the Gene- ral Staff as vacancies occurred, and the officers were relieved as oppor- tunity offered. The average service in the junior ranks was five or six years, promotion going on the station, as was then very much the cus- tom. During the intervening years the Corps had been distributed as below:— Years. Sierra Leone. Gambia Gold Coast. Total. Years. Sierra Leone. Gambia Gold Coast. Total. 1841 4 _ „ 4 1850 3 4 2 9 1842 1 - — 1 1851 4 4 4 12 1S43 3 - — 3 1852 3 2 4 9 1844 4 - - 4 1853 3 4 2 9 1845 4 - - 4 1854 5 4 3 12 1846 3 - - 3 1855 2 7 7 1G 1S47 4 1 1 G 1S56 2 G 0 13 184S 2 6 5 13 1857 3 6 4 ]3 1849 2 5 3 10 1858 2 5 7 14 In 1858 it was determined to make the service more effective, and in the now medical regulations published in 1860, it was laid down that each medical officer volunteering for the West Coast of Africa would be required to serve at one of the stations on the Coast for twelve months, each year of such service counting as two towards promotion and retire- ment, with an equivalent of leave, the Senior Assistant-Surgeon being entitled to the promotion as vacancies occurred, either by death or the transfer of the Senior Surgeon to a West Indian regiment, and all officers](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24764589_0226.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
