Royal Navy and Army Medical Services

18u BR 'r7 *MdZD'tLtX19TJJorOUR(L NTAVAL ANDA MILITARY 'MEDICAL SERVICES. [JuY ', 1903 service on these various occasions lie received the fourth class of the Prussian Order of the Crown, the Hessian Cross, and ROYAL NAVY AND ARMY MEDICAL SERVICES. the German war medal; while Atcllin brought him anotlher cross medal and clasp, and the Turko-Servian war the Order ROYAL NAVY AIEDICAL SERVICE. of Takovo. On returning finally to England he exhibited the REGULATIONS FOR THE ENTRY OF SURGEONS FOR TEMPORARY same activity as lie had done elsewhere, giving most of his SERVICE IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. spare time to the pursuit of literature. Among other work IT is announced that "Surgeons who maybe temporarily he published a translation' of Professor Roser's Chir2urgico- employed in the Royal Navy to meet the requirements of the Anatomisches Vade Mecumn and Professor Ecker's Die Himin- service will be appointed under the following regulations": des Menschen. He was a Fellow of thie Linnean and wvindunyen Qualifications. Zoological Societies, and conitributed a good mallypapers to tlle To be of pure European descent and the son eitler of natural born Transactions of the former Society, to the Magazine of Natural British subjects, or of palents naturalized in the United Kingdom. To History, to Brain, and other scientific jourinals. He was a be registered under the Medical Acts as qualified to practise medicine member of the British Medical Association, and a Fellow of and sulgery in Great Britain and Ireland. To produce certificates of good clharacter (up to date). To be reported plhysically fit after mliedical the Medico-Chirurgical Society and the Society of Anatomists. examiiinatioln. Age not to exceed 4o years. DAVID JAMES LAWSON, M.D., D.P.H. Pay anid Allowances. Full pay, 22S. a day. Half-pay, for sickness and extra leave only, ios. a WE much regret to chronicle the very suddeni and unlooked day. To be granited tlhirty days ad.'ance of pay on joining a ship after -for. death of Dr. LAWSON, of Portland. He had attended the appointiiment. To receive the samiie allowances as are payable to per- Assizes at Dorchester on the morning of June 6tlh, and after manent officers of their rank. Uniform to be Provided by each Sergeon.-Frock coat, waistcoat, and leaving the court fell forward on the pavement in the street, trousers. Undress coat. Uniforimi cap. Mess jacket and waistcoat. and died in a few minutes. Sword and undress belt. All as specified in the Uniform Regulations. David James Lawson was a graduate of the University An equipment allowance of £20 will be payable on an officer being called up for active service. of Edinburgh. He obtained the degrees of M.B. and C.M. in Messing.-Surgeons will be allowed, wlhen attached to slhips on commis- 1885, and of M.D. in i889, and the Diploma of Public Health sion, the ordinary naval ration * but will lhave to pay about 2s. a day from the University of Cambridge in I896. He had practised towards the maintenance of their mess as wardroom officers. in for and at time Portland seventeeni years, the of his death Pensions for Wounds and to Widows, etc. was Poor-law Medical Officer, Public Vaccinator, and Medical Unmarried candidates will be preferred. In the event of surgeons Officer of Health for the Island, and also Admiralty Surgeon engaged for temporary service being wounded in His Majesty's service, and Agent, Certifying Factory Surgeon, Surgeon to the gratuities or pensions, varying in amount according to the injuries sus- tained, will be granted on the basis of the awards in similar cases of naval Trinity Board, Surgeon to the Royal Portland Dispensary, officers. and Surgeon Captain to the ist Dorset Volunteer Artillery. Should temporary surgeons be killed in action, die within six months Devoted to and skilful in his profession, affable and kind of wounds received in action, or meet their deaths by acts of the euemy, the following pensions and allowances vill be granted to their widows, in disposition, strictly honourable, considerate for others, childrein, etc.: good and true in all things, he had won the affection and WTidows' Pensions.-If surgeon be killed in action £8o, and in addition esteem of the inlhabitants of Portland, and his sudden death one year's pay of their lhusband's corresponding rank in the Royal Navy canme upon them as one of personal bereavemeint. -£225 ios.-as a gratuity. If surgeon be drowned, etc., by acts of the enemy, £65. A memorial service was held at St. Johins ChurCh1 on Children's Pensions, up to the Age of 18 for Boys and 21 for Girls.-If June ioth, and, followed by a large number of mourners, surgeon be killed in action, £12 to £i6, and each unmarried child under past hundreds of bare-headed people, whose tear-stained the age of 21 one-third of the gr-atuity paid to the widow. If the sur-geon be drowned, etc., by acts of the enemy, £mo to £14. In the case of widowed faces evidenced their grief. and distress, his body was coii- miiothers dependent on their sons, if the latter left no widows or children, -veyed to the railway station en route for Scotland, the inter- and orplhan sisters dependent on their brothers, if the latter left no ment taking place at Blackford, near Perth. mothers, widows, or children, and the surgeon be killed or drowned or suffered violent death by acts of the enemy, a pension of £50 Will be Dr. Lawson leaves a widow and two young children, and granted. was 43 years of age. No pension or gratuity can be given on account of injury or death, whicil mlay result frolmi carrying on the ordinary duties of the service. DEATHS IN THE PROFESSION ABROAD.-Among the members Conditions of Service. of the medical profession in foreign countries who have re- To engage for six months certain, but thie liability to serve will be cently died are: Dr. John P. Bryson, of Saint Louis, a limited to five years. To serve wlhen and where required. To be liable to iimmiiiediate dischalge for miiisconduct or incompetency. To rank with, prominent specialist in genito-urinary diseases and one of the but after, surgeons in the perm-anent service. To be under the general founders of America Medicine; Dr. I. N. Love, of New York, rules of the service as regards discipline, etc. To receive two calendar sometime Professor of Clinical Medicine and Diseases of months' notice of services being no longer required. To be granted a gratuity of two calendar miionths' pay on discharge, if not dischlarged for Children in the Marion-Sims College of Medicinie, Saint misconduct or incompetency. Voluntar-y resignation of appointment Louis, President of the Section of Children's Diseases in the will be allowed subject to the convenience of the service, but the gratuity American Medical Association in I889, and founder and editor of two calendar months' pay or discharge will be thereby forfeited. till his death of the Medical Mirror, aged 49; and Dr. Monfils, one of the founders of the-Belgian Medical Federation. DEFECTS IN EXISTING CONDITIONS OF SERVICE. MR. GERALD SICHEL, F.R.C.S.Eng., F.C.S., etc., late Surgeon in H.M. Navy THlE LATE DR. THOS. SMA-LLIORN.-A dedicatory service was and late Assistant Instructor at the Naval Medical School at Haslar held last week at the parish Church of Eynsham, Oxford- addressed from Guy's Hospital on June 24th a letter to the First Lord of the Admiralty, of which a copy is printed below. In forwarding the letter shire, on the occasion of the unveiling of the memorial Mr. Sichel has sent also another letter from himself for publication in window whielh has been placed in the ehureh in commemora- this JOURNAL, but as the two letters virtually cover the same ground tion of the life alid work of the late Dr. Tlhos. Smallhorn. The only a summary of special parts of the second need be given. Mr. Sichel, service was choral, and was attended by a large congregation having now left the service, has no interest in its improvement except as a taxpayer and member of the medical profession, but in taking up the drawn from Eynsham, Sutton, Stantoni Harcourt, Han- question he is fulfilling a viltual promise made to several brother officers borough, Freeland, and Northmoor. The movement to per- who knew that he was about to leave them. The needforreform is patent jpetuate in some way the memory of Dr. Smallhorn met with to all those acquainted with the subject, and is evidenced by the falling- off in the number of candidates. It was, indeed, admitted by the First so much favour among all classes, that the original idea of Lord in a speech in March at Haslar, but whether the Admiralty is pre- simply placing tlhree coloured lights in the chancel gave pared to take reform in hand frankly, honestly, and efficiently is another place to that of building the present very beautiful window. matter. The cry is not for increased pay, but for such transformation as shall make the navy offer a satisfactory career to able men with a proper At the foot is an inscription which reads: "To the glory of amount of ambition and energy. At present the Royal Army Medical God,, and in loving memory of Thomas Smallhorn, for thirty- Corps offers much better prospects to candidates. seven years medical practitioner of this district, who died The letter to the First Lord reads as follows: February 1902, aged *63, this window is affectionately " I had the honour of being present, as a surgeon in the Royal Navy, 9th, when you made your important speech at Haslar on March 3mst last, dedicated by his grateful friends and patients." in which you stated that you were only too glad, and so were your colleagues, to welcome suggestions for the solutions of problems.

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