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oSIEW YEARS' EONOUR LIST. C. I. E. Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. Calvert, f.r.C.p., Principal of the Medical College, Calcutta. Major J. H. Murray, I.M.S., Andaraans. C. I. E. (For services connected with the War.) Lieutenant-Colonel F. E. Swinton, I.M.S., Medical Store- keeper, Bombay. Lieutenant < 'olonel J. C. Lamont, I.M.S. (retd), recalled to act as Professor of Anatomy, Lahore, who thus represents the men recalled from retirement for work during the War. C. B. E. Colonel VV. G. Beyts, R.A.M.C., Bombay. Lieutenant-Colonel E. L. Ward, I.M.S,, I. G. of Prisons, Punjab. (J. B. E. Lieutenant-Colonel F. S. C. Thompson, i.m.s., Superin- tendent, Presidency Jail, Calcutta. Miss Maud L. Davys, Kasauli Laboratory. M. B. E. M. Leach, Esq., acting Superintendent,Central Jail, Dacca. Lala Baij Nath, Civil Surgeon, Jhelum. Kaiser-I-Hind Medal. (Gold.) Miss G. Davis, Victoria War Hospital, Bombay. Dr. J. Dodds Price, Nowgong, Assam. (Silver.) Assistant Surgeon Khan Bahadur P. P. Cooper, Bombay. Mr. John William Atkinson, Alipore Central Jail. Miss M. Mackenzie, Broadwell Hospital, C. P. Assistant Surgeon Shams-ud-Din, Mission Hospital, Jagadri, Punjab. Khan Bahadur. Khan Sahib Mian Muhammad Azeem, D. I. Khan. Khan Sahib Ardisher Cowasji, Sub-Assistant Surgeon, Mount Abu. Khan Sahib Mahbub Ali Khan, Kabul Agency. Rai Bahadur. Babu Gopal Chandra Mitra, Assistant Serologist. Babu Tarak Nath Mitra, Civil Surgeon of Arrah. Rao Bahadur. M. M. Ry. O. K. C. Avargal, Assistant, Chemistry Pro" fessor, Madras. Rai Sahib Medical Daji Ranmchandra, Practitioner ' Nagpore. 74 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Feb., 1919.

Sardar Sahib. The number of casualties amons: medical officors reported Sub Assistant Surgeon Kesi. Singh, Jaipur was very high, 63, in addition to eleven nurses. Hmeauain (Transport Corps). the number of deaths from disease, ohiedy i fluenza, wis Khan Sah*b. very lvg?. It may be noted til it the new tides of the meiicil departmen of the for the first Civil Assistant Surge >n Tassadoq FTusain, U. P. Royal Navy appear Tlio names are below. B bu It. N. Mukuji, Medical Practitioner, B.tukura. tune. given All, unless otherwise are of the li A.M O. L. Math lira Pn jab. notn.1, temporary officers Mogv, I or ilidU wo Gobind itara, Senior Sub- Assist, int Surgeon, Burma. KUle of inds.?M ijors S. S li. Harrison, J. \ic. F ' .1. Assistant Surgeon P. A. P?ti, Baluohi-t*n Morris, (1'. ; Oiuraius J. J. rough. P. O'tteilly, M 0 J. (??. MaoNeill Harrison Babu Hriii'laban Chandra Sur, Mayo Hospital, Ajmere. ; (Canadians); F. C (S. II.) : Lieute'ant I). F. . Sarojini Nath Bardhan, l m s., Medical School, Singapore. Charlton, L D.s Durham Light Infantry ; Sister II. M -llett ((Jan .dian-s). Uao Sahib. Lost, al? ?- vlajor (J. vv. Uug;rati A.M.0., Regular, M. R. M G. N. Garti, Assistant Madras. (II. Ry. Surgeon, Reserve of Officers); o p tains M. Murphy, It. E. Lee, M. P. Vakil, Senior Sub Assistant, S irgejii, Bombay. Lieutenant It. J. liissett. V. S. Durbar State. ? Teugsha. Surgeon, Kulhapur Diml. Surgi.-Comminder T. Austen, R.N. ; Surgn.-Lieut.- Order of the British Empire. Commander J. Had wen, k.n. ; Surgn. Sub-Lieutenant T It is offic ally announced that ladies and gentlemen Carlyle. k.N V.r. ; Lieut.-Colouel L P Deiiietriadi (1\ F.); appointed to the Order of the British Empire may wear the Majors I. H viao^Iiool. H. McGillicii'ldy, M.o., T. C. insignia o! the Order with morning dress on official and Rutherford (I. M.S.); 0. W. 0. Wyle* ("I*.F.) ; H W. Carson, public occasions. The ribbon of the Order may be worn on D.s.o (R. A.M 0.. itegular): O ipt ins F. U. Speusley, J. H. all occasions. Connolly, W. L Millar. It. |{. K.owns n (S. It ); N. I. Allan The method of wearing the insignia with morning dress is (T. F): VV. M ild en (T F.);C. vi (}. Campbell (S. It.); as follows :? C. E. A. Ring, T. R Uuitfoyle (Canadians); E. O. Itobertsou Knights Grand Cross, Dames Grand Cross. Knight Com- (L I). S., attached It A. M.C); Lieutenants E H. Glenney manders, and Dames Commanders should wear the stir only (S. It.); C lilak-i. Sisters vl. 15 Biker (Canadians); S. on the left breast of the coat or dress. Hilling (Q- A. I. VI. N. S. it ) ; V. li. Herman (Canadians); Gentlemen who are oinmanders should wear the ribbon A. Glednill (Q. A. 1. M. N". S. it); St.ff Nurses VL. Danaher from which the badge is suspended under the tie, which (Q. A. I. M N. s. U); 15. Oiirke (Austr ilians); I. H. should be a bow, the badge hanging about three-quarters of W it.kins (South Africans); Misses IS. M. Tonkin, V, C. an inch below the bow Macket . V Kichards (all V. A.D ) Lidies who are Commanders and officers and members, Wounded. Majois W. W. Wells, J. F. Burgess (Cana- both ladies and gentlemen, should wear the badge on the dians); D. McKelvey, MO. ; J. S. Levis, VV. li. Allen. V.o., left breast of the coat or dress. M.C. (T.F.); J. B. Scott, M.C. (S. It.);' Captains M. L- Farmer, The method of wearing the ribbon of the Order is the same G. Moore (T.F.) ; iVI. 15 Elliot (S. It.); j. M. Elliot (Regular, for nil five classes, both for ladies and gentlemen. A pioce R. A. iVI.C.); H. L. Garson (S It); D (i Gardiner, E. VV. D. of the ribbon of the Order 1^ in wide and IJ in. ir depth, Hardy, M.C.; J. D. Stew irt (Canadians); It. VlcC. Hill, mounted on a bar of metal in the form of a brooch, is to be D.s.O. ; G. Davidson, H S. Evans (S R.); H. A. C. Swertz, worn on the left lapel of the coat or in a corresponding place G. S. Troner (S. R.); R. Lindsay (T. F.); H. M Oodfrey, on the dress. J. C. Ogilvie, M.o. ; R. E. Pitts (T. F.); H P. Whitworth [It is to be understood that in mess dress miniatures only (8. R.); It. Young, M.C.; F. 15. Sprawson, C. F. Hacken, are worn as in the case of the older Orders.?Ed., I. M. G.] M.o. (8. R.); A F. Argue (Can idiins); F. B. Day (Cana- dians); N. H. Little (Canadians); H. F. Smith, M.o.; The following despatch by His Excellency General Sir Ciptain and Quartermaster \1. J. Morison (Canadians); Charles Carmichael Monro, O.C.M.G., K c B., a.-d.c., Lieutenant F L. Richard (S R.). General, Commander-in-Chief in India, on the work done Major Stanley Septimus liarrymore Harrison, M.O., R A.M.C. in India including the Native States, during the first three (T. F.), was reported as killed in action, in the casualty list ye^rs of the war, which appeared in the supplement to the published on 23i d October 1918. He was educated at Guy's London Gazette, dated the 26th November 1918. is published for Hospital, and took the M.it.C.S. and L-R.U. P. London in information :?(Gazette of India, 7th December, 1918). lv)14. He joined the 3rd North Mi

educated at St. Thomas' Hospital and Durham University, Leanchoil Hospital. Hs took a temporary commission as in the E Ail on where he graduated as M.B. and B S. in 1902, also taking Lieutenant C. 1st July, 1916. and was the M.H.OS. and L.RCP, London, in the same year. promoted to OaptaMi after a year's service He entered ttie I.M.S as Lienten int on 3 st. January, 1903, Major John Morris. M.n., r.a ai.o. (T.F.), was killed in became Captain on 31st .lniiiia>y, 1906. and Major on 31st action on 7th October, 1918. He was educated at Edin- July, 1911, and at tho time of his death was acting as burgh University, where he graduated as M ft. and Oh B. Lieutenant-Colonel in Command'of a Field Ambulance. in 1904. also talcing the P. R.C.S (Edin.) in 1909. after acting as to the Dinorwic Before the war lie was serving in civil employ in the Central Assistant, Surgeon Quarri s Hospital, and Provinces. as House Surgeon of Denbighshire Infimary. he went into Major Richard Hugh McGillicddy, M.C., RA M.C., died practice at Hyde. Cheshire. Ho joined the 6th Territorial of pneumonia at sea on 2 th October 1918. He was the (Stockport.) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment as Lieutenant younger son of the McGillicudny of the Reeks, and was and Medical Officer on 8th March, 1912, was promoted to educated at University College H< spiral. London, taking Captain on 1st. Angnsr, 1915, and subsequently to Major. on 1st . the M.R.C.S., and L.R.C.P , Lond- n, in 1911. He held the He received the Military Cross January, 191 post of District Medio d Officer of Ward No. 7. Borough of St. Mijor Herbert William Carson, D.S.O.. R.A.M.C., was Paiicras. He took a temporary commission as Lieutenant reported as hiving died on service, in the casualty list in the R.A.M.C. on 4th July 1915, wis promoted to Captain published on 29th October, 1918. He was born on 22nd after a year's service, and to an acting Majority in the May 1KS2. and graduated a5" M. ft., ft Ch., and ft. A O. of the beginning of 1918. He received the Military Cross on 14th Royal University, , in 19Do. He entered the January 1916. R.A.M.f). as Lieutenant on 29th .Inly. 1907, was promoted Captain John James Tough. R A.M.C., was killed in action to Captain on 21th January. '911, and recently to Major. at an advanced dressing stati' n <>n 7th October, 1918. aged Ho received the D.S.O. on 4th June, 1918. SO He was the only surviving fou of Dr. William R. Tough, Lieutenant-Colonel Louis P. Demetriadi, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), of Accrington, Lancashire, and was educated at Edinburgh died at ^ont.hport on 26th October, 1918, aged 55, after a long University, where he graduated as M.B. and Ch.B. in illness contracted on active service. He was educated at 1910. After acting as Medical Officer in the Out patient Leeds University, and took the diplomas of L.R.C.S.I, and Department, of the Edinburgh Koyal Infirmary, and as House L F P S.G in 1^86. also subsequently the F. R.C (Edin.) in Surgeon of the Sick Children's Hospital. Edinburgh, he went ,B89. the D.P.H. in 1892, and the M l). (Durham) in 1905. into practice in partnership with his father at Accrington. After acting as House Surgeon of Huddersfield Infirmary, he He took a temporary commission as Lieutenant in the went into practice at Edgerton, Huddersfield. ftefore the R.A.M.C. on 25th May 1916, and was promoted to Captain war he held a commission on the 7th (Leeds) West Riding on completion of a year's service. His younger brother, Casualty Clearing Station Staff, in which he attained the Captain Arnold Batin ttyne Tough, L.n s., South Lancashire rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 3rd;: May, 1915, and had Regiment, was killed in action on 1st July 1916, the opening recently been serving at the front in command of that unit. day of the great and long-drawn-out battle of the Somme. He had received the Territorial Decoration, and had twice Captain l)>gby Burns. R.A.M.C., was reported as drowned, been mentioned in despatches. in the casualty list published on 22nd October 1918. He Captain Roger Dawson Dawson-Duffield Brownson, took the L.K.C.P. and S. I. in 1912, after which he went R.a.M o. (S.R.), died of influenza at Peshawar on 21st Octo- into practice in Dublin. He took a temporary commission ber, 1918. He was the o?ly son of the llev. F. Brownson, as Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. in January 1916. and was of Compton Greenfield, Gloucestershire, apd was educated at promoted to Captain on completion of a year's service. the London Hospital, and at Cambridge, where he graduated as M B. and B.C. in 1911. Captain Frank Oswald Spensley. r.a M.C., died of as R.A. in 19ii5, and having also L.R.O.P. in 1908. He had pneumonia at Burden Military Hospital, Weymouth, on taken the M.R.C.S. and (Lond.) Officer at the London 23rd October 1918. He was the youngest, son of the late filled the posts of Emergency Hospital, Revd. lames Spensley, was educated at Sr.. Thomas' Hospital, and of Clinical Assistant at the Greit Ormond Street Hospi- and took the M.RC.S. and L. B.C.P., London, in 19)7 tal. He joined the Special Reserve of the R.A.M.C. as was to After acting as House Surgeon of Lowestoft Ho?pitil. he Lieutenant on 30th September, 1914, and promoted took up the post of Senior Assistant Medical Officer of the Captain on 1st April, 1915. Austen, died nfc the Darenth Industrial Colony, Dartford, Kent. He joined Surgeon-Commander Thomzis R.N., Chatham, on 22nd 1918. the R.A.M.C., as a temporary Lieutenant on 10th November Naval Hospital, October, Royaf Cross and after 1916, and was promoted to Captain after a year's service. He was educated at Charing Hospital, taking L.R.C P. in 18S8, entered the Captain Patrick Joseph O'Keilly, M.C., r.a.m c., was the M R C S. and (Lond.) he attained the rank of Fleet Surgeon on returned as killed in action, in the casualty list published on Navy, in which 25th 1905. October 1918. He took the L. R O S and P.I. in 1914, 21st February, T 1 Ferner Charlton, L.O.S., Durham joined the R.A. M C. as a temporary Lieutenant on 21st Lieutenant Douglas was as missing on 25tn 1J18, October 1914, was promoted to Captain after a year's service, Li^ht Infantry, reported Apiil on that date. He was the second and was attached to the East Yorkshire Regiment when and is now presumed killed A. Charlton, of and was kdled. He received tie Military Cross on 14th November son of the late W. Birmingham, and at the 1916. educated at Stewart's C 'llege. Edinburgh, Dental the L.D.S. of the Charles William Spencer Myles, r.a.m c. P ). Hospital in that city, taking Royal College Major (T. in after winch he went into died of pneumonia, on active service, on 19th October 1918. of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1913, His younger Second He was the younger son of the late Dr. James P. Myles, of practice in Edinburgh. brother, who was also an L.D.S. and an Ireland, and was educated at Trinity Dublin, Lieutenant W. F. Charlton, Birr, College, had where he graduated as B.A. in 1908, as M B., B.Ch., and officer in the Durham Light Infantry, previously been B.A.O. in 1912. after which he went into at killed. practice Gordon Merthyr Vale, Glamorgan. He joined the Special Reserve Captain Charles Montague Campbell, R.A.M.C. was as died on in of the R.A.M.C. as Lieutenant after qualifying, and on 7t,h (S.R.l, reported having service, the on 1st January 1914 transferred, in the same rank, to the 2nd casualty list published November. 1918. He took the and S.I. in 1914. took a Welsh (Cardiff) Field Ambulance (T F.). He was promoted L.R.C.P. commission as Lieutenant of the 011 to Captain after a year's service, and subsequently to Major. in the Special Reserve R.A.M.C. 8th February, Captain James Harris Connelly, R.A.M.C.. died at the 1915, and was promoted to Captain on 8th August, 1915. Acheson Military Hospital, Regent's Park, London, Captain T. R. Gnilfoyle, Canadian Army Medical Corps, was as died on in the list on 23rd October 1918, aged 42. He was educated at reported having service, casualty on 5th Edinburgh University, where he graduated as M.B. and published November, 1918. , Walker at Ch.B. in 1902, and as M.D with commendation, in 19'I6; Captain Maiden. R.A.M.C. (T.F.), died Bateman and also studied at King's College Hospital. London, at St. House, Cambridge, on 28th October, 1918. aged 60. He was Bartholomew's, and at the London and the Middlesex educated at Cambridge, where he graduated as M.A. in 1885, M.B. in and at St. Hospitals. After filling the posts of House Surgeon to the 1886, M.D. in 1905, and Bartholomew's Albert Hospital, Devonport, of Senior House Surgeon Hospital, also taking the M.R.C.S. in 1866, and the M.R.C.P. Royal in of Clinical to the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital, and (Lond.) 1909. He held the posts Pathologist and of Resident Medical Officer at the Throat Hospital, Golden Director of the Clinical Laboratory at Addenbrooke's Hos- London, he went into practice in London, and held pital, Cambridge, and was Honorary Medical Officer of the Square. and of the the appointments of Chief Assistant in the Aural Department Charity Organisation Society Cambridge Rescue and He took a commission as at Bart's, and of Surgeon in chai-ge of the Throat. Nose, and Prevention Society. Captain, on of the 1st Eastern Ear Department at the Queen's Hospital for Children. He R.A.M.C. (T.F.), the staff (Cambridge) General on 6th and was took a temporary commission as Lieutenant in the R A.M.C. Hospital May, 1908, Pathologist to that, on 10th October 1914, and was promoted to Captain after a hospital. service. Dr. Charles Augustus Eamanson Ring, late R.A.M.C., died year's of on 29th October. 39. Captain William Linton Millar, R.A.M.C., died on active pneumonia 1918, aged He was the eldest son of A. R. late R.N., of service in France on 23rd October 1918, aged 37. He was Ring, Seaview. Isle of Wight, was in schools of the educated at Aberdeen University, where he graduated as educated the Edinburgh and Dublin and took the Scottish M.A. in 1903, and as M.B. and Ch.B. in 1906, after which he Colleges, triple qualification in 1905 and also the F.R.C.S. in 1908. went into at Forres, where he was Medical Officer of (Edin.) After acting as Extern practice Clinical Assistant at the Coorabe Kinloss Parish and Honorary Physician and Surgeon to the Lying-in-Hospital Dublin 76 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Feb., 1919. he went into practice at Brinklow, near Rugby, Warwickshire, Lost at Sta.?Surgeon-Lieutenant 1). S. MacKnight where he was Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator to the (R.N., Temporary, H.M.S. Britannia); Sister W. Starling Brinklow district of the Rugby Union, and Medical Officer of (Q A.I.M.N.S.R., R.M.S. Leinster). the Isolation He a com- Rugby Hospital. took temporary Died.?Colonel S. C. Philson (R.A.M.C., Regular) ; mission as Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. in the latter half Lieutenant-Colonels J. T. McEntire (R.A.M.C., Regular), of 1915, and was promoted to Captain after a year's service, J. E. Hodgson (R A.M C., Regular); Majors D. Burrows, but had resigned some time ago, on the expiration of his R. C. Irvine; Captains F R. Tickle,

was attached to Own six months later. He the King's1 on 29th June 1893, at Trenton, Ontario, and educated at Scottish Borderers. Toronto University, where he graduated in Medicine in Captain H. Dunlop, Canadian Army Medical Corps, was 1916. After joining: the C.A.M.C., he came to England in as in list reported having died of wounds, the casualty pub- April 1917 and went to France in July 1918. where he served lished on 13th November. 1918. in a General Hospital until September, when he was posted R.A.M.C. died at Captain Angus Burns Robertson, (S.R.), to a field ambulance, with which he was serving when fatally Dundee War Hospital, of pneumonia following influenza on wounded. He was the son of 8th November, 1918. only Captain Angus Captain W. E. Boyce, Canadian Dental Corps, was reported and was educated at Robertson, Edinburgh University, as having died on service, in the casualty list published on where he graduated as M.B. and Ch.B. in 1911. He joined 18th November 1918. Reserve of the R.A.M.C. as Lieutenant in the Special 1917, Captain Charles Henry Vernon Smith, Canadian Army and was had served in Egypt Palestine, and under orders for Medical Corps, died on service on 1st November 1918. He at time of his death. France the was born on 15th July 1886, at Oxford. Ontario, and educated Captain H. P. Thompson, Canadian Dental Corps, was at MrGill University, Montreal, where he graduated in reported as having died on service, in the casualty list pub- Medicine in 1914. He came to England in the C.A.M.C. in lished on 9th November, 1918. March 1916, went to France the following July, and served James Thomas was Lieutenant-Colonel McEntire, r.a.m.c., in a General Hospital and as regimental medical till December as died on in list reported having service, the casualty pub- 1916, when he was invalided to England. lished on 12tli November, 1918. aged 38. He was educated at Captain Thomas Reginald Guilfoyle, Canadian Army wh?re he as Trinity College, Dublin, graduated M.B., B.Ch. Medical Corps, died on service on 9th October 19 8. Ho and B.A.O. in 1903. He the R.A.M.C. 3S Lieutenant joined was born at Lucan, Ontario, on 6th October 1892, and on 31st August, 1903, became Captain on 31st January, 1907, educated at the Western University, London, Ontario, where and Major on 28th February, 1915, and had since been pro- lie graduated in Medicine in 1914. He came to England in moted to Lieutenant-Colonel. the C.A.M.C. in July 1916, and served in England till Captain Lawson Tait McClintoclc, r.a.m.c. (V.), died at February 1918, when he was invalided to Canada. He Loddon. Norfolk, on 11th November, 1918, of pneumonia returned to England in July 1918. after influenza. He was educated at Edinburgh University, Three officers of the Canadian Army Medical Corps were where he graduated as M.B. and Ch.B. in 1901. After acting reported as bavins died on service in the casualty list as Assistant House of he went Surgeon Salop Infirmary, published on 14th November 1918, viz., Capt. C. D. Hamilton, at in where he was Medical into practice Loddon, Norfolk, C.A.M.C., Lieut. R. H. Lalande, c.a.m.c., Lieut. W. McL. Officer of Health of Loddon and Clavering Districts, Medical McLe?d, C.A.M.C. of 2 Officer of the Work House and No. District of Loddon Captain James Gaston, M.C., r.a.m.c., attached Suffolk also Public Vaccinator. He held a and Clavering Union, Regiment, was reported as having died of wounds, in tho as the was commission Captain in R.A.M.C. Volunteers, casualty list published on 18tli November 1918. He was Medical Officer in of at and to the charge Troops Loddon, educated at Queen's College, Belfast, and graduated as Red Cross Hospitals at Loddon and Heddenham Hall. M.B., Ch.R and B.A.O. of the Royal University, Ireland, Captain George Thomas Carroll, I.S.M D., retired, died in in 1906, after which he went into practice at Carrabeg, London on 7tli September, 1918, aged 66 He attained the Clough Mills, County Antrim. He took a temporary rank of Senior Assistant Surgeon and Captain on 1st April, commission as Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. on 28th December and retired on 19th 1907. 19f>3, March, 1914, was promoted to Captain after a year's service and H. M.S. Britannia, a battleship of 16,350 tons, was received the Military Cross on 26th November 1917. torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the western Major Robert Charles Irvine, r.a.m.c., died at No. It) of the Straits of Gibraltar on the entrance morning of 9th Red <"! oss Hospital. France, of pneumonia, on 10th Novem- November, 1918 Two officers and about 40 men were lost; ber 1914. He was the second son of Mr. Irvine, of Clontabret, and 693 men savpd. One of 39 officers the two officers lost County Monaghan. and was educated at Edinburgh was Surgeon-Lieutenant Dundas Simpson MacKnight, R N. University, where he graduated as M.B. and Oh B; in 1913. was educated at He Edinburgh University, where he gradu- He the R.A.M.C. as a temporary Lieutenant on as M.B. and joined ated Ch.B. in MOO, also taking the Liverpool 17th October 1914, was promoted to Oaptain after a year's in diploma Tropical Medicine in 1911. He served as a service and to an acting Majority in January 1918. He was Civil in the Surgeon South African War in 1901 02, receiving attached to the 65th Field Ambulance. and as was the medal; afterwards Medical Officer of the British Captain Robert Clark, R.A.M.C., killed in action on South Africa as a Company. He joined the Navy temporary 7th November 1918. He was tho last surviving son of in 1915. He was the second son of Surgeon the late Revd. Inspector Clark, Police Office, Burnbank, Hamilton, and was John MacKnight, of Whithorn. educated at Glasgow University, where he graduated as Lieutenant P. R. Shannon, r.a.m.c., was reported as MB. and Ch.li. in 1914. After serving as House Surgeon died of in the having wounds, casualty list published on 15th of Glasgow Royal Infirmary, he joined the R.A.M.C. as a 19KS. He had on and was November, only recently qualified, and taken temporary Lieutenant 1st July 1915, promoted a commission in the R.A.M.C. was temporary to Captain after a year's service. He attached to the 20th Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Hodgson, r.a.m.c., died Hussars. His two brothers, Captain A. LeB Clark and at Salonika, of pneumonia following influenza, on 5th Nov- Second Lieutenant J. D. Clark, had already fallen in action. ember 1918, aged 44. He was born on 31st August 1874, Colonel Samuel Cowell Philson, Army Medical Staff, died the son of the late Caleb Hodgson, of Carlisle, and educated of at Karachi on 13th November 1918, aged 58. the pneumonia at Owen's College, Manchester, taking M.ll.C.S. and He was born on 14th September 1860, the son of the late 1 L.R.C.P. London in 98, and the D.P.H. of the London W. Philson. m.d., of Cheltenham, atd educated at King's Colleges in 19i3. After acting as Resident Clinical Assistant College Hospital. London, taking the M.R.C.S. and Convalescent at the Barnes Hospital, Cheadle. Manchester, L.R.O.P.Ed. in 1883. He entered the R.A.M.C. as Surgeon the R.A.M.C. as Lieutenant on he entered 28th January on 30th May 1885. became Surgeon Major on 30tli May 1897, on 28th on 1899, becoming Captain January 1902, Major Lieutenant-Colonel on 30th May 1905, and Colonel on l3t 28th October 1910, and Lieutenant-Colonel on 1st March 1915. March 1915. He served in the Burma Campaigns in Lieutenant .lohn Dow. i.m.s., died on service, at Shiraz, 1886-89, and 1891-92 (medal), and in Tirali 1897-98 (medal); Persia, of influenza on 5th November 1918, aged 29. He was and also served on the staff of the Governor-General of educated at Aberdeen University, where he graduated as Australia from 21st February 19^1 to 16th April 1902. 1914. After as of M B. and Ch.B. in acting House Surgeon Captain Andrew Monro Jukes, I.MS., died of neuritis and he took a com- the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, temporary heart-failure after rheumatic fever in on 18th Octo- the in Egypt, mission as Lieutenant in R.A.M.C. 1915, and subse- ber 1918, aged 36. He was born on 24th September 1682, a commission as Lieutenant in quently accepted permanent educated at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and graduated as from 13th March 1916. He was the Indian Medical Service M.B. and B.S. London in 1906, and as M.D. in State of the eldest son of Mr. Peter Dow, Elgin. Medicine in 1908, also takinp; the D.P.H. Cambridge in 1908. died at Captain Philip Sydney Green, r.a.m.c., He entered the I.M.S. as Lieutenant on 30th January 19 9, near on 13th November 33. Wimereux, Boulogne, 1918, aged passing in first, after having acted as Casualty House Surgeon He was the fourth son of the late John Green. J.P., of Newton- of Hull Royal Infirmary. He became Captain on 30th and was educated at the Victoria le Willows, Lancashire, January 1912. Before the war he was Medical Officer in University, Manchester, where he graduated as M.B. and charge of the Brigade Laboratory at Shillong, Assam, and Ch.B. in 1911. He joined the R.A.M.C. as a temporary then Deputy Sanitary Commissioner of the was to after Presidency Lieutenant early in 1916, and promoted Captain Circle, Bengal; and in the first year of the war was Medical a year's service. Officer of the 128th Pioneers, in the Indian Expeditionary Major Howard Beal, United States Medical Corps, of Force "E." died at Waterlane Farm, Shrewsbury. Massachusetts, Neuilly, Captain Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell, R.A.M.C., died on 20th of wounds received at near Paris, July 1918, Roy of pneumonia at Alexandria on 8tli November 1918, aged 41. near on 49. He St. Nicholas, Pierrefonds, 18th July, aged Ho was the son of the late Herbert Spurrell, of West to the American Women's at was Chief Surgeon Hospital Norwood, and was educated at the London and in 1914-15. Hospital Paignton, Torquay, at Oxford, where he graduated as M.A., M.B. and B.Ch. in Neville Hall Little, Canadian Medical Captain Army 1907, also taking the D.T.M of the London School of died of wounds on 28th October 1918. He was bom Corps, Tropical Medicine in 1912. After acting as temporary 78 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Feb., 1919.

Medical Officer of Obuasi, South Ashanti, in 1916 17, he Hospitals, Aldersliofc, and then with No. 17 General Hospital, took a temporary commission as Lieutenant in the lt.A.M.C. B. B. F. in the middle of 1917, and was promoted to Captain after a Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Stanislaus O'Keilly, c.M.G., year's service. r.a.m.c.. died at Elt.ham on 18th November, 1918, aged 41. was on in Captain Laurence Anus Winter, r.a.m.c., died of pneumo- He born 25th May, 1877. educated the School of the nia after influenza on loth November 1918, at No. 20 Irish College of Surgeons at Dublin, and took the L. It.U.S.I. General Hospital in France, aged 50. He was educated at and L.lt.C.P.I. in 1S-99. Ending the lt.A.M.C. as Lieuten- St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and took the M.ll.C.S. and ant on 17th November*, 1899, he became Captain on 17th L.R.C.P. London in 1892, and also the M.D of Durham in November, 19112, Major on 17t.h August, 1911. and Lieutenant- 1912. After acting as Clinical Assistant in the Skin Depart- Colonel on 26th December, 1917. Ho served throughout the ment at Hart's, as Clinical Assistant in the East London South African war from 1899 to 1902, in the Orange River Hospital for Children, and as Assistant House Surgeon of Colony. Cape Colony, and the Transvaal, took part in the the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, he went into practice at actions at Paardeberg, 17th to 28th February, 1900. Poplar Farnborough, but afterwards removed to Sheerness. He Grove, Driefontein, Kari Siding, Vat River, and Zand Itiver, took a temporary commission in the ll.A.M.C. early in 1917, and in those round Johannesburg and Pretoria, and received and was promoted to Captain after a year's service. the Queen's medal with four clasps, and the King's medal Captain Douglas George Wearing, L.o.s., attached with two clasps. He trot the C.M G on 4th June. 1917. He ll.A.M.C., died of pneumonia at the Military Hospital, was Senior Medical Officer at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Limerick, on 11th November 1918, aged 34. He was Major G. G. Anderson, R. A.M.C.. was reported as having educated at Guy's Hospital, where he served as Demonstra- died on service, in the casualty list published on 22nd Novem- tor in Practical Dental Metallurgy, and took the L. D.S. of ber. 1918 He took a temporary commission as Lieutenant in the Royal College of Surgeons, England, in 1905, after which the R. A. VI.C. on lfith August, 1914. and. was promoted to went into practice at Sidcup. He took a commission Captain after a year's service, and subsequently to a Majority. in August 1918. Lieutenant-Colonel William Malcolm Sturrock. r.a.m.c. (T.F.). died at Birmingham on 21?t November, 1918. He was The number of casualties among officers reported during the son of the late William Sturrock, of Cupan, and was the fourteen days. 20th November to 3rd December, 1918, educated at Edinburgh, where he graduated as M B. and inclusive, was 1,6"29. The number is comparatively small. C.M. in 1883. After serving as Assistant Medical Officer of The Armistice was signed on lltli November, but casualties St. Pan eras Workhouse and infirmary, he became Medical are usually officially reported some ten to fourteen days after Officer of the Birmingham Workhouse. He held a commission they have taken place. They may be tabulated as follows:? in the 1st South Midland (Mirmingham) Field Ambulance, in which he beca.me Lieutenant Colonel on 2nd Killed ... 539 November, 1914, and was as Officer in Command of the 1st Died ...... 215 recently serving Field 61st South Midland Division. Wounded ...... 709 Ambulance, John Francis Howells, was Missing ...... 79 Surgeon-Lieutenant R.N., as died on service, in the list Prisoners ...... 87 reported having casualty pub- lished on 23rd November. 1918. He took the M.R.C.S. and after which he entered the Total ...1,629 LR.C.P. London, in 1917 Royal Navy as a temporary Surgeon, and was recently serving at the The number of casualties among medical officers, 38, was Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham. high as compared to the total, owing to the very large Surgeon-Sub Lieutenant J. T). Gear, R.N.V.R., was reported number of deaths, which make up over half of the total as having died on service, in the casualty list published on number. Deaths from influenza have been reported from 23rd November, 1918. all over t.Ve world, England, Scotland. France. Egvpt, Captain Mysore Seshaoriri Krishnaswami Rao, I.M.S., was Salonica, India, Mesopotamia, South Africa. East Africa. reported as having died on service, in the casualty list pub- The names are given below. All not otherwise stated are lished on 23rd November. 1918. He took a temporary com- temporary officers of the 11 A.M.C. mission as Lieutenant in the I.M.S. on 16fh September, 1916, Killed or died of mounds.?Captains R. F. Copland, H. W. and was promoted to Captain after a year's service. White. Captain Harry Dunlop, Canadian Army Medical Corps, Died.?Lieutenant-Colonels J. M. Reid (R.A M.C., Regular, died of wounds on 2nd November, 1918, aged 35. He was retired), P. S. O'Reilly. C.M.G. (R.A.M.C.. Regular), W. M. born at Kingston. Ontario, on 21st October, 1883, and educated Sturrock (T.F.). M. Holmes (New Zealand); Majors W. S. at, Que?n's University, Kingston, where he graduated in MardonneU (Canadians), O. CJ. Anderson. H W. Sykes; Medicine. He came to England in the Canadian A.M.C. Captains R S. Cocke, H. R. Crow (S.R.), M. K S. R lino in September 1916 and in November 1917 went, to France as (T.M S., Temporary), F. D Ke-me. M. W. H. Miles, G. L. Medical Officer to the 102nd Canadian Battalion, with which Maule (S. 'L), R. W. Clierrett (East Africa) S. W. Matthews, he was serving wbe" k'lled. C. R. Lister (\ustralians) : Surgeon 1 ientenants .T. F. Captain Edward Dawson Keane, R.A.M.C., was reported as HowpIIs (K.N.. Temporary), W. H. Pickup (R. N. Temporary); having died on service, in the casualty list published on 23rd Surgeon Snh-Liputenants .T. D. Gear (R.N.V.R.). E. A. November. 19'8. He was educated at Aberdeen, where he Pearson (R.N.V.R.); Dr. A C. McHattie (Fast Africa); graduated as M.B. and Ch B in 1901. after which h? went Ass'stai't burgeon \ R Fasdon (l.S. M.D ); -'i?t.er N. Hohhs into practice at Banff, whe-e he wis Assisting Visiting (0 A.I M. N. S. R.); Staff Nurse E. A. Baker (South Physician of the County Asylum. Assistant, Surgeon of the Africans). Chalmers Hospital, and Assistant Physician of the Banff Wmmded.?Majors H. D. smyt.he. H. D. L->na. M C (T.F.). Dispe"S'rv Later he removed to London, and was in prac- F. Henderson. M o. ; Captains f!. N. Co>d, J Pryce-' ?a vies. tice in North Kensington when he took a. temporary commis- ,T. Scott, (t. Robinson. A. W. Raymond, M (!.. S. Singh sion as Lieutenant, in the R. A.M.C. early in 1917. He was ('.M.S.. Temporary), W. G. Mnckenzie. m.O (T.F.I. O. W. promoted to Captain after a. year's service. Mitchell. J. ,T. T5. Edmond (S.R.); Lieutenants W. H. Ross, Lieutenant-Colonel Mathew Holmes. New Zealand R. R. MacOregor. Medical Corns, died at Wellington. New Zealand. <>n 15th Captain Henry Paters^n Prow, k.a.m.o. (S. R.), died of November, 1918. He was the son of James S. Holmes, of influenza at Jhansi. Central India, on 9th November, 1918. Wellinpton, and was educated at Edinburgh, where he He was the son of Mr. John Crow, of Biggar. late of graduated as M B and Ch li in 1902. and as M.D. in 1908, G'asgow. and was educated at. Glasgow TJniversitv, where be also taking the F.R O.S. (Edin.) in 1905. After acting as graduated as M.R. and Ch.B. in 1915. He took a commis- Resident Medical Officer of St. Mary's Hospital for sion as Lieutenant, in the Special Reserve of the R.A.M.C. on Women and Children, Manchester, he returned to New 19th April. 1915. and was promoted to Captain after six Zealand, and went into pra-t'ee at Wellington, where he months' service. was Honorary Physici in to th? Wellington Hospital. He Lieutenant. Robert- S. Scott. Surgeon. United St.-it.eg Navy, joined the New Z* iland forces early in the way and was onlv 8'>n o( T. ^cot.t, M.'>. of Brooklyn. Nfw York, died at promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel i- 1916. Peck'kiU New Yoik. on 15th October. 19'8. Dr. Alexander Piimphcll Nicholson McHattie, Medical Captain Robert. St.nrgpon Cocke, k.a.w.p., died in London Office"- of Zanzibar, died there of pneumonia aft?r influenza aged 4t. on 16th November, 1918 ? f dise.se oontmcted on 17th November, 1918. He was educated at Edinburgh, on service in the Fast. He was educate'! at, King's College where he graduated as M B. and Oh.B. in 1900. also taking Hospital, London, and t,o-k 'he M RCS an'! L.R.O.P. the D.P.H at Cambridge, with distinction in Hygiene in London, in lfl'^O. and the F R.O.-*. Ed. in tflOfi. After acting 1911, anil the diploma in Tropical Medicne and Hygiene in as Assistant Resident Medical Officer at. St Pam-ras Infir- 1912. After servina'for gome time as Chief Medicd to the mary, and as House Su-geon and Ansest.hetist. in the aural Oovernment, of the Bahamas Islands. West, Indies, he joined department, at King's College Hospital, be went. into special the West African Medical Staff, and served in Nigeria. practice in London. holdi"!? the appointments of Senior He had recently been appointed to Zmzibar. Aural Clinical Assistant, at. K ng's College Hospital, Surgeon Captain Robert, Ferguson Copland, r.a.m.c., who was to the Royal Ear Hospital. Soho. and Lecturer to the Deaf reported as missing on 21st March, 1918. has now been and Dumb Institute. Fitzroy Square. His commission as a reported by the Geneva Red Cross as killed on that date temporary Captain in the R. A.M.O. was dated 4th January, He was 25 years old. and was the youngest son of the late He was educated at Aberdeen 1915 ; he had served as Aural Surgeon, first at the Cambridge James Copland, of Cromarty. Feb., 1919.J SERVICE NOTES. 79

where he graduated as M.B. and Ch B. in 1915, and was born at Port Hood. Nova Scotia, on 25th December, 1S88, immediately afterwards to73, Africa, and retired on 15t,h 1876. He was for several St. Bartholomew's and took the M.II.CS. and April, years Hospital, Civil Surgeon of and afterwards Professor of L.R.C.P. in 1906, and the D.P.H in 1909, also Mnzaffarpur, (Lond.) Ophthalmic Surgery in Calcutta. During his service in the as M.B. and U.S. (Lond.), with honours, in graduating capital he organised and founded tho Mayo Hospital, of which 1907. After acting as Assistant Medical Officer of Plaistas he was the first that post having ever since he entered the East African Medical Service, in Superintendent, Hospital, been held by the Ophthalmic Surgeon. He served in the which he held the appointment of Health Officer of Nairobi, Sonthal Rebellion of 1855-56. During the Mutiny he was the He got the rank of in the capital. temporary Captain Medical Officer of the Tirhut, Volunteers, but did not see active on 19th August, 1914. Army service in the campaigns. After his retirement he became Harold Widdoington r.a.M.C., was Major Sykes, reported Surgeon and Lecturer on Clinical Surgery at Westminster as died on in the list published on having service, casualty Hospital, and Surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic 29th November, 1918. He was educated at the of University Hospital, and since his retirement from active vvoi k had been Durham College of Medicine, and as M.B. and graduated Consulting Surgeon to both thes* institutions. He was a B.S in and as M.D. in 1912. He then went (Durham) 1909, Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from to Soutlj Africa, and after as Resident Medical acting 1885 to '901, and Vice-President, in 1893 and 1896 ; and in 1901 Superintendent of Guy's Hospital, ?Pietermaritzburg, he delivered the Hnnterian oration. He was throughout his Natal, took up the post of Assistant Medical Officer to the life a voluminous author, his most, successful works Randfontein Estates Sick Fund in the Transvaal. He took bping Lecture* on Diseases of the Eve (1866. fifth Edition 1891). a temporary commission as Lieutenant in the R. A.M C. on Lectures on Diseases of Bone, (1K7B, third Edition 1S87). and 7th June, 19 5, and was promoted to after a Captain year's Asiatic Cholera (1876. three Editions). He was service, and to History of subsequently Major. also the author of The Story of an Irish Sept. (1900), The Captain Samuel was Wandrope Mathews, R.A.M.C., Origin and Character of the British People (1900), wrote the repotted as having died on seivi.se, in the list casualty pub- articles on Cholera and Tetanus in the first Edition of Quain's lished on '.9th November. He as graduated M. B., B.Ob, of Medicine* (1?82). and those on Cholera and and B.A.O. of the National Dictionary University of Ireland in 1913, in Davidson's and Diseases of Warm Climates took a commission in the Leprosy Hygiene temporary R.A.M.O. in September and edited the indian Medical Gazette from 1871 to and was to after a (1893), 1917, promoted Captain year's sorvire. 1873. Captiin C. R Lister, Australian Army Medical Corps was reported as havi- g died on service, in the casualty list published on 29th November 1918. SUBJECT to His Majesty's approval and with effect from the 15th Lieutenant-Colonel .Joseph Kin near Surgeon Sub-Lieutenant Kngene A. Pearson, r.n.V.r , August, 1918, Close, to the rank of vice Colonel was reported as having died on set vice, in the casualty list M.D., i? promoted Colonel, Harold published on 29th November 1918. Hondley, M.D., K.H.S., promoted to the rank of Major- Li' jjtenant-Colonel James More Reid, r.a.m.c., retired, General. tenure of will died suddenly on 18fh November, 1918, aged 62. He was born Colonel Close's appointment reckon from the on 8th November. 1918. at Newton-Stewart. Wigtonshire, "29th January, 1n?6. and _ educated at Edinburgh, where he graduated as M. B. and Subject, to His Majesty's approval, the following temporary C.M. in 1878. and as M.O. in 1880. He entered the 'i.A.M.O. Lieutenants to be temporary Captains, with effect from the as Surgeon on 2nd Feb' uary, 1S84, became M-> jor on 2nd dates specified :? Mahado M February. 189ti, and Lieutenant-Colonel on 2nd Februn y. 1904, Narayan Bodas, B., 7th October, 1917 ; Peston 15th retiring on 29t.h January, 1911. He served in the Tirah Byramji, December, 1917 Campaign on the North-West. Frontier of India in 1897 (8. and in the third China war in 1900. receiving the med .Is, and Indian Defence Force. rejoined for service in the present war on 17th January, 1915 Medical Corps. was a and He fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, The undermentioned ate of the Institute of Public Health.' granted temporary commissions, subject to His Majesty's approval, with etfect from tho dates Hill Wilson White, was as Captiin R.a.M.C-, reported specified :? missing from 12th '918. and is now presumed killed on April, To be Major. that. date. H" was the fourth son of the very Revd. F. W Edward Albert 1st White, Dean of Christcburch, Dublin, and graduated as Houseman, April, 1917. H.Oh. and B A O. of the National University of M.B., To be Lieutenants. Ireland in l'-MO, from the Medical School of the R.C.S.I. After Charles Edwin 1st acting as Resident Anaesthetist, Senior House Surg' on. and Percy Forsyth, April, 1917 ; Charles Casualty Officer of the Metropolitan Hospital, PaMon, and as Ainslie Stone, 6th December, 1918. Assistant Medical Officer of the Manor and Long Grave Asylum at Epsom, he held the post of Assistant Medical Indian Medical Service. Superintendent of the Paddington Infirmaiy when the war Subject to His Majesty's approval, Lieutenant-Colonel began, and then took a temporary commission as Lieutenant George William J^nney, M B., has been permitted by the in the B.A.M C. on 10th September, 1914 He was promoted Right Hon'ble the Secretary of State for India, to retire from to Captain after a year's service, and was wounded at. Ypres the service, with effect from the 4th October, 1918, in Mecember 1915. His younger brother. Second Lieutenent J. D. White, Irish was killed in the w. D. Gerald Royal Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Havward, m.b., i.m.s? a battle of the Somme in July 1916. Medical Store-keeper to Government,, is posted to the Medical Captain Winifred Macdonnell, Canadian Army Store Calcutta, with effect from Smyth Depot, the 1st "ecemoar,Decemhar Medical Corps, died on service on 15th November, 1918, He 1918, and until further orders, 80 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Feb., 1910.

His Excellency the Governor in Council is pleased to Assistant Sukgeon M. J. Mistky, l.m. & s., acting Civil appoint Major A. \V. Overbeck-Wright, M.B., to act Surgeon, Ratnagiri, has been granted privilege leave of as Superintendent, Central Lunatic Asylum, Yeravda, and absence for three months, with effect from the 15th October, Medical Officer, Yeravda, Central Prison, during the absence 1918, or from the date of relief. of Major W. S. J. Shaw, I.M.S. His Excellency the Governor in Council is pleased to The following notification by the Government of India, appoint Assistant Surgeon J. F. Henriques, L.M. & s., to act Home Department (Medical), is republished :? as Civil Surgeon, Ratnagiri, during the absence on leave of Assistant Surgeon M. J. Mistry, L.M. & s. No. 202-C., dated the 29th November, 1918. The services of Major A. F. Hamilton, M.B., F.R.O.S., I.M.S., are replaced at the disposal of the Government of Bombay, The services of Captain D. V. O'MaUey, M.B., r.a.m.c. with effect from the date on which ho was relieved of his (T C.), are placed temporarily at the disposal of the Chief military duties. Commissioner of Assam until further orders. Major D. P. Johnstone, r.a.m.c., is appointed Surgeon to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay from tho forenoon The services of Major \. S. M. Peebles, m.d., i.m.s., are of the 23rd November, 1918, vice Captain C. M. Rigby, placed temporarily at the disposal of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in with effect the 22nd H.A.M.C., vacated. India, from July, 1918. The services of Major VV. S. J. Shaw, M.D., B.cli., B.A.O., I.M.S., are placed temporarily at tho disposal of the Govern- Sub.teot to His Majesty's approval, Lieutenant-Colonel ment of India for employment under the Government of James Morwood, M.D., i.m.s., Bengal, is permitted to retire Burma. from the service on account of ill-health, with effect from the 11th November, 1918. His Excellency the Governor in Council is pleased to Colonel Morwood entered the I. M. S. on 30th September, and has for been a well-known appoint Captain F. C. Fraser, I.M.S., to act as Personal 1886, many years past Civil Assistant to the Surgeon-General with the Government of Surgeon. U. P. He has recently been serving in the Indian Bombay, in addition to his military duties, vice Captain A. Troops Hospital at Karachi. G. Tresidder, I.M.S , transferred, pending further orders. The Governor in Council is pleased to appoint Lieutenant- The King has approved the grant of the temporary rank Colonel F H. G. Hutchinson. M.B., C.M (Edin.), n.p.H., p.t.m.&H. to act as of (as shown below) in the I.M.S. to the following gentlemen : (Cantab), I.M.S., Inspector-General Prisons. Bombay Presidency, in addition to his own duties, To be temporary Major. vice the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel J. Jackson, C.I.K., Percy Charles Woollatt, 21st May, 1917. i.m.k.. reverting to Military duty, pending further orders. Promotion should be rapid in the Jails Department; the To be temporary Lieutenants. following vacancies are now actual or imminent :? Nariman Sorabji Kotwal, 6th November, 1917; Kaikliusroo Bengal, vice Sir Walter Buchanan, due to retire. Rustomji Dalai. >-th I'ecember, 1917; Susanta Kumar Sen, U. P., vice Lieutenant Colonel Henderson, due to retire. 8th December, 1917 ; Kantilal Kalynji ManUodi, 12th Decem- C. P., vice Colonel VV. B. Lane, promoted. ber, 1917; Gopal Narayan Khanna, 16th December, 1917; Madras (no permanent appointment since the promotion Amar Nith Mandhok, 17*h December, 1917 ; Bantwal Shan- of Colonel Macnamara). kar Ran, 19th December, 1917 ; WarisKhan,20tli December, Bombay, vice Colonel J. Jackson, to be promoted.* 1917 ; Eustace Trevor Neave Taylor, 2l tli February. 1918 ; Bihar and Ori?sa, vice Lieutenant-Colonel Singh, about to Keki Sorabji Bhiwandiwalla, 15th March, lt>18; Keith Mon- take furlough, it is understood. tague Woodruff, 19th March, 1918 ; Daya Ram Thapar, 25th March, 1918 ; Albert Victor Lopes and James Henry Barrett. 2nd May, 1918 ; Shaikh Gliulam Mohamed and George Patrick de Sibra, 3rd June, 1918 ; Jugal Kishor Adhya, 8th June, 1918 ; Yedatore Venkaba Krishnamoorthy, 6th July, 1918. Electric lighting of wards of British troops' hospitals in India. It has been decided to amend the scale of electric lighting in the wards of British troops' hospitals in India as follows One fixed lamp will be provided for every six beds, with a minimum of one per ward. As a general rule, these tamps should be of the bracket pattern fixed on fbe side walls. In addition, one portable lamp and a wall plug should be provided for every four beds with a minimum of one per ward.

" Definition of pay proper" of civil sub as3istant surgeons on military duty fo> purposes of calculation of the special field allowance of 2? per cent. It has been decided that for purposes of calculation of the special field allowance* of 12$ per cent, to civil sub assistant sui'geons, their civil pay plus military pay, exclusive of any field service batta or other allowances, should be taken as their "pay proper."

" Pay of Colonels, Army Medical Service, who on promotion to that rank are temporarily in excess of the authorised establishment. With the approval of the Right Hon'ble the Secretary of State for India it has been decided that when the promotion of an officer to the rank of Colonel, Army Medical Service, involves a temporary excess in the authorised establishment, should the salary of the officer be fixed at Rs. 1,800 per mensem, with effect from date of promotion irrespective of how the officer is employed." There are cases in the I.M.S. to which this rule, we pre- sume, also applies. If not, why not?

Dr. R. W. Fjsher, m.b., B.ch., d.p.h. (R.U.I.), Director, Vaccine Institute, Belgaum, has been granted, with effect from the 1st October, 1913, privilege leave of absence for one month and four days combined with furlough on medical certificate for such period as will bring the total amount of combined leave up to three months.

India Army Order No. 175 of 1916.