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We understand there will be no competitive examination for the I.M.S. in January. At the present time all men likely to enter ore joining or have joined the li.A.M.C. for work at the Front. Many of these will be free at the end of the war and many are of the stamp and qualifications required for the I.M S._, and doubtless many will then join especially if new conditions at e offered as regards pay, leave, and pensions. Most of the other grievances have vauished as we have seen in the despatches published in our September number. WAR CASUALTIES. * THE casualty lists in the Times from '23rd to 26th October, both days inclusive, were again heavy, amounting to 28 officers killed, 74 wounded, and seven missing. No medical officers' names were among the killed ; but Captain B. was as Johnson, R.A.M.O , reported missing on the 24th and Lieutenant It. B. Porter as wounded on the 26th. The following medical officers were also stated to be prisoners :

* For these notes on Casualties in the Great War we are, of course; indebted to Lt.-Col. D. G, Crawford, i.ms. (retd.). 34 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE, [Jan., 1915.

G. H. on Captain Rees, R.A.M.C., reported missing 10th On 31st October the Times again contained a long list September; Captain S Field, R.A.M.C., missing on 22nd of 79 casualties: 25 officers killed, 49 wounded, and five D. M. c September ; Captain Corbett, R.A.M , and Lieutenant missing. Two medical officers, Captains M. J. Loclirin J. B. R.A.M not Hepper, C., previously reported, and Staff and It. H. Nolan, were among the killed, while one, L- L R.N. Surgeon Greig, Captain Field and Lieut. Hepper Lieutentant G. H. Chisnall, was wounded. The death was like other are, many prisoners, at Torzau, on the Elbe, in also reported of Dr. S. H. Crowther while serving as a Prussian Saxony. despatch rider. Captain Benjamin Johnson, r.a.m.c., was educated in Captain Michael Joseph Locukin took the L. R. C. S. I. He took the Dublin. L.M.S. of Dublin Apothecaries Hall in and L. R. C. P. I. in 1901, entered the R- A. M. C. as Lieute- and after as 1905, acting Resident Medical Officer of the nant on 30th July, 1906, and became Captain on 30th January, Royal City of Dublin Hospital, entered the army as Lieutenant 1910. He was recently stationed at Ahiershot. on 30th .luly, 1906, becoming Captain on 30th January, 1910. Captain Rupert Henry Nolan was educated at He was recently stationed at Limerick. University College, London. He took the M. 11. C. S. and Captain Daniel was Maukice Corbett, r.a.m.c., L. It- C. P., London, in 1908, got his first commission as educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the B.A., Lieutenant on 30th January, 1909, after serving as Assistant also in 1905 the M- B., B. Ch., and I?. A. O. He became Medical Officer to the London County Council Asylum at Lieutenant on 30th on July 1906, and Captain 30th January, Banstead, and became Captain on 30th July, 1912. He was 1910. He was recently stationed at Ambala. recently at the 11- A. M. C. College. Lieutenant John Eric Hepper, r.a.m.c., is the son of Dr. Sidney Nelson Crouther was killed on 18th Octo- Colonel Hepper, D.s.O., h.e., retired list. He was captured on ber, aged 39, while acting as a motor cyclist despatch rider. 24tli August, after the fighting at Mons. He was educated He took the M. It- C. S. and L- R. C. P., London, in 1903, at took the M. R. 11. Barts, C. S. and L. C- P , London, in and after filling the posts of Prosecutor at the Royal College 1911, and entered the army on 26th July, 1912. His last of Surgeons, Senior House of Westminster station was Upavon. Hospital, and Assistant Medical Officer at Brookwood Asylum, Staff Surgeon Lewis Leister Greig, r.n., was educated became Senior Medical Officer of the Survey County Asylum at where he Glasgow, took the M. B. and Ch. B. in 1905. at Netherne, Merstham, leaving that appointment to go He entered the Navy in the following ye.ir, and became Staff on service. Surgeon on 10th February 1914. He was stationed at It should also be mentioned that among the officers reported till he Portsmouth, accompanied the Royal Naval Division killed on 30th October was Lieutenant T. Prain, of the to Antwerp in the beginning of October. He is a Scottish Leicester regiment, son of Lt.-Colonel Sir David Prain, Rugby International football player. C.I.E., c.M.G., Bengal Medical Service, retired, now Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. On the 27th October the casualties reported in the Times were again heavy, 84 in all : 18 officers killed, 52 wounded, of 2nd November contained two and 14 missing. Among the wounded was Second-Lieut. The Times long lists of It. H. Spooner, of the Lincoln Regiment, the famous casualties, no less than 111 names in all, viz., 46 officers killed, 58 and seven Several of the Indian Lancashire cricketer, and among the missing Lieutenant wounded, missing. J. L. Jackson, r.a.m.c. contingent were included in the lists. Four medical were the Lieutenant John Luke Jackson, r.a.m.c., was educated officers among killed. Captain It. D. O'ponnor at Belfast, where betook the M. B. and Ch. B. in 1910, and (whose name had previously appeared, unofficially, among the and Lieutenants II. J. S. jR. E. received a temporary commission as Lieutenant in August deaths), Shields, Porter, 1914. and G. H. Chisnall. The two last had been previously reported wounded. A fifth medical officer's name was on On the 28th October again 77 casualties were reported : 16 among the deaths the first page, Lieutenant D. officers killed, 38 wounded, and 23 missing, among the last Wardleworth. Henry was was Lieut. H. de C. Dillon, R.A.M.C. Lieutenant John Sladen Shields killed on 23th Lieutenant Henry de Connoy Dillon was educated at in action October. He was the son of the Revd. of Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the B. A-, also the A. J. Shields, Thornford Rectory, Sherborne, Dorset, and was at M. B., B. Ch., and B. A. O. in 1907. He served for some educated Loretto, Jesus College. Cambridge, where was stroke of the boat in time as a medical officer in the West African Service, and he Cambridge 1910, and Middlesex He took the M. R. C S. and L. R. C. lately received a temporary Commission in the 11. A.M.C. Hospital. P., London, in 1912; the M. B., B. S., Cambridge, in 1914; and got his on 25th 1912. Previous to (he war lie ONLY five casualties were reported on 29th October, all in first commission July at the war the Indian Contingent: two killed, two wounded, and one was stationed Pirbriglit camp. Since began he been attached to the Irish and was missing. These were the first casualties reported in the force had Guards, reported on 10th retreat from sent from India. missing September, after the Mons, but rejoined. Reginald Edward Porter was 26. The Times of 30th October again contained a very large Lieutenant aged was educated at London took the M. R. C. S. list of 91 casualties : 26 officers killed, 51 wounded, and 14 He Hospital, L. It. C. P., in the M. B. and B. missing. Among the killed was Prince Maurice of Batten- and London, 1911, S., in the same year, and after the of House berg, the youngest son of Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria's London, filling post of the Lee entered the R. A. M. C. youngest a first cousin of King George, and Surgeon Royal Hospital, daughter, on 26tli one brother of the Queen of Spain. It will be remembered that as Lieutenant July, 1912, place above Shields. was stationed at his father, Prince Henry of Battenberg, served in the He recently Limerick. Lieutenant George Henry Chisnall died of shell Ashanti war of 1895, and died on his way home on 20th January, 1896, of fever contracted in the campaign. Prince wounds at Poperinghe, Belgium, on 24th October, aged 28. He was the son of O. N of Maurice was a Lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Chisnall, Esq., Frating Abbey, One medical officer, Lieut. J. R. Hayman, R.A.M.C., was Essex, and was educated at London Hospital, where, after the M. R. C. S. and L. R. C. in the among the wounded. Two more medical officers, whose taking P., London, 1908, B. in he served as House names were not included in the official list of casualties, M. B.. S., London, 1910, Physician and House He was a Lieute- appeared among the obituary notices on that day.?Captain Surgeon. appointed temporary the R A. M. C. on and was R. D. O'Connor and Lieut. D. \V. Rintoul, R.A.M.C. nant in 7th August 1014, attached Captain Richard Dominic O'Connor was born in 1884, to tha 1st Bittalion, Cameron Highlanders. Lieutenant Douglas Waudlkworth was educated the third son of the late Mr. F. W. O'Connor, f.r.C.S.I., of at College, Manchester-?took the M. B. and Ch. Limerick. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and Owen's B., as House Bai t's. He took the M. R. C. S. and L. R. C. P., London, in Victoria, in 190-5, and after serving Surgeon to the and House to the 1907, and entered the R. A. M. C. on 28th January. 1907, Royal Hospital, Salford, Physician Royal into at becoming Captain on 26tli July 1910. He was recently sta- Infirmary, Manchester, went practice Sheringham, He had as a Lieute- tioned at Multan. He was killed on 25th October in the Norfolk. only been gazetted temporary battle of the Coast. nant in the R. A. M. C. in October. He was accidently while on 24tli October. Lieutenant David Wylie Rintoul was killed in the drowned, bathing, at Havre, same action on 21st October. He was 25 years old, the elder son of D. Rintoul, Esq., of Clifton. He was educated at St. The Times of 3rd November published another list of Andrews and Dundee, and took the M. B. and Ch. B. at casualties in the battle of the Coast, still fiercely raging for St. Andrews in 1912. On 1st June, 1913, he was appointed the possession of the littoral of south-west Belgium and north- Lieutenant in the 3rd South Midland Field Ambulance, east France. It was shorter than those of tlie last few days, stationed at Bristol, and entered the R. A- M. C. as Lieute- containing the names of 36 officers : 17 killed, 15 wounded, and nant on 30th January, 1914. He had only recently finished four missing. Two medical officers were among the killed. his course of training when the war broke out. Lieutenants Shields and Rintoul, both of whose names had Lieutenant John Rollo Hayman was educated at previously appeared, unofficially, in the obituaries. It was Middlesex Hospital, took the M. R. C. S. and L. K. C. P., also stated that Captain S. Field, r.a.m.c., reported London, in 1911. He was recently Senior House Surgeon of missing on 26th September, was a prisoner. Maulesfield General Infirmary, and was appointed Lieute- THE casualties list published in the three days 4th, 5th, and nant in the Reserve of the R. A. M. C. on 13th March, 1912. 6th November, included 179 names, viz., 63 officers killed, 93 Jan., 1915.] WAR CASUALTIES SERVICE NOTES. 35

Edward wounded, and 23 missing, exclusive of Indian Native Officers. Deputy Surgeon-Geneeal McKellar, j.p., died at on 27tli No names of medical officers were included in these three Bengal Medical Service, retired, Brighton days. October 1914. He was born on 28th May. 1827, the son of Dugald McKellar, Surgeon, of Battersea. He was educated at University College, London, and took the M. R. C. S. in The Times of the 4th November publishes a list of British 1849, also the M. D. St. Andrews subsequently in 1870. officers upon whom the French Government has conferred He entered the I- M. S. as Assistant Surgeon on 9tli July the Legion of Honor. Seventeen received tho officer's cross, 1851, being nominated by Mr. W. J. Eastwick, at the and first 100 that of Chevalier. Four medical officers who are request of Sir Charles Forbes. He became Surgeon on 20th included in the number, are: ?Major S. L. Cummins, R.A.M.O., December, 1S63, Surgeon-Major on 9tli July, 1871, and receiving the officer's cross, and three, Captains S_E. retired with a step of honorary rank on 31st March, Lewis, J. T. Mclntire, and H S. Ranken, that of Chevalier. 1877. He had a long list of War Service, beginning with All four were mentioned in Sir John French's late despatches. the second Burmese War of 1852-53, when he served Captain Ranken was killed in action on 24th September. throughout the war with H. M.'s 80tli Foot, was present at The hospital ship Rohill?., Captain Neilson, struck on the the capture of Martaban, at the operations before Rangoon rocks off Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast, about 4 A.M. on 30th on 12th to 14tli April, was in medical charge of Major October, and was totally lost, the last survivors being taken Cotton's force at the capture of Prome in June, 1852, and olf on the morning of November 1st- She was a British India subsequent operations in its vicinity, was mentioned in boat, chartered by Government. Captain Neilson must be despatches in the London Gazette of 20tli August 1852, and well-known to many in India. More than twenty years ngo received the medal with clasp. In the M utiny he served he earned the medal of the Royal Humane Society by going with the third European .regiment in actions near Agra over-board, on a dirty night, in the channel, to save a man on 5th July and lflth October 1857, in medical charge of who had fallen overboard. He was the last to leave the ship. Major Montgomerie's force in engagements with rebels near Fortunately the lio hill a had no patients on board at the time Aligarli on 24tli August, with Colonel Seaton's column in of the wreck, being bound for France to fetch the wounded. the actions of Gandiri and Patiali, and to the end of the She had, however, a large medical staff on board. The campaign in medical charge of Murray's Jat Horse, accounts in the papers are not clear as to the names of those serving in Colonel Kelly's Brigade in Oudh, and was senior saved and lost, respectively. About 70 lives appear to have medical officer present in the action with the Nana Sahib's been lost. The Times gave the names of the following as force ne:ir Butwal, on the Nipal frontier, and received the the medical staff on board, from an Admiralty list :? Mutiny medal. Ten years later, in 18G8, he served with the Fleet-Surgeon Ernest Courtney Lomas, d.s.o., r.n., 10th Bengal Lancers in Abyssinia, gaining another medal. in medical charge. All his service, with the exception of one short interval, Surgeons, R.N.V. R : Thomas Caldwell Littler Jones, was spent in military employ. After the Burmese war he was Samuel Leslie Macbean, Herbert Leitli Murray, Alfred posted to the Gwalior contingent, with which he remained Ernest Wilson Hird, and Lionel Spence Ashcroft, and till 1857, when the contingent mutinied. During the Charles Bocliman Heald. Mutiny he served, as stated above, with Murray's Jat Horse, Temporary Surgeons, R. N.: Thomas H. Cresswell, now the 14tli Bengal Lancers. In 1860 he was Civil Surgeon G. J. C- Smyth. J. 11, Collie, James Cowin Watt, William of Meernt. In 1861 he went on leave to New Zealand. On Agard Pocock, Frederick Ernest Chapman. 9th February. 1862, he was posted to the 10th Bengal Nursing Sisters: Misses Mary B. Bennett, M. Cavalry, or Hodson's Horse, now the 10th Duke of Bermington, 0. L. Hocking and M. B. Patterson. Cambridge's Own Lancers. After the Abyssinian war he Of the above, the names of all four sisters, of Fleet Surgeon took long furlough to England, and after his return on 1st Lomas, and of all the R. N. V. R. Surgeons, except Dr. December, 1S72, joined the 1st Bengal Cavalry, with which Heald, appear in the list of those saved. Of the temporary he remained till he retired- Surgeons, only one name is in that list, Dr. Cresswell's. The names of Dr. Heald, and of the other five tempoiary Bhioade-Surgeon Henry Atkins, Bombay Medical Surgeons, do not appear in the lists either of saved or lost, Service (retired), died at Weston-super-mare on 1st Novem- and it is possible that they were not on board. On the other ber, aged 84. He was born in 1830, and was educated at hand, four other names appear in the list of saved, which are St. George's. After taking the M.R C.S and L.S.A-, he not given above ; Surgeons Eastwood, Mackenzie, and Mac- acted for two years as House Surgeon of Southampton Infirm- lean (the last perhaps Macbean's name repeated), and Dental ary, before entering the I.M.S. as Assistant Surgeon, which Surgeon J. W. Paul. he did at the first competitive examination, on 24th January FliSet Surgeon Lomas is an Owen's College man, who took 1855. He became Surgeon on 24th January, 18*37, Surgeon- the M.B., and Ch. B. Victoria, in 1888, the F.R.C.S. Edin- Major on 1st July, 1873, and retired with a step of honorary burgh in 1907, and attained his present rank on 21st October, rank on 31st December 18S5. Though he was in India at the 1904. Mr. Littler Jones is a leading Liverpool Surgeon. He time of the Mutiny, the Army Lint assigns him no war took the M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. from Barts in 1897, the service. On 7th November, 1856, he was posted as Surgeon to F.R.C.S. in 1902, has served as a plague medical officer in the Uajkot Political Agency, and on 29th October, 1857, to tliat Bombay and as a Civil Surgeon in the South African war, of Bhuj; on 22nd June, 1S58, he joined the Indian Navy, and is Honorary Surgeon to Liverpool Royal Infirmary, and in 1860 the Kelat, Agency and in 1861 became Civil Surgeon Lecturer on Clinical in Liverpool University. He of Thana. On 6tli February. 1863, he was appointed Surgeon joined the R. N. V. R. on 25th November, 1901. Dr. Macbean of the 4th Bombay Native Infantry, in 1869-71 he was on is M.B., B.S., Durham, 1905. He was formerly a Surgeon in furlough in England, in 1872-75 was again Civil Surgeon of the Navy, and in the practice at Newcastle. Dr. Murray Thana, and was Residency Surgeon at Baroda from 1876 to took the M. B. and Ch. B. with the honours at Aberdeen in 1882, when he again took furlough, on the expiration of 19 )1, the M. D. in 1905. He is in practice at Liverpool, is which he reverted to military duty for a short period, till Honorary Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital for Women at he retired. Liverpool, and joined the Nursery Division, R. N. V. R , on loth February 1909. Dr. Hird was educated at Cambridge Major Sir Ronald Ross, k.c.b., Madras Medical and Birmingham, took the M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1908, Service, retired, was presented on 19th October by the Royal and is in practice at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Dr. Ashcroft College of , London, with the Bisset Hawkins is a Liverpool man. He took the M.B. and Ch. B. there Memorial Medal, awarded triennially in recognition of work in 1910, is in practice at Sefton Park, Liverpool, and joined in sanitary science or in promoting during the the Nursery Division, R. N. V. R.. on 9tli December, 1912. Dr. preceding ten years. The award was made in recognition of Heald was educated at Birts. Frieberg, and Stockholm. He his researches on malaria. On 2nd November Sir Ronald took the M.R.C.S. and L.R.C P. in 1909, the M.A.. M B-, and Ross delivered the Huxley Memorial Lecture on recent in B.Ch. at Cambridge in 1910, also the D P. H. in 1912, and the advances in science relation to and surgery, at M.D. in 1913. He is attached to the medical department of Charing Cross Hospital. the Education Hoard, Whitehall, as Inspector of Physical training. Dr. Watt is M.B. and Ch-B.. Glasgow, 1913. Dr. The following is the list of private medical practitioners Pocock was at Harts and Cambridge. He took the M- B. and selected by the Director-General, Indian Medical Service, for B.O , Cambridge, the M.R.C.S. and L.R.C P-, in 1913. Dr. temporary military serviceDr. J. C. Ramsay, Dr. R. G. Chapman is a famous Guy's and England Rugby player, who Berryman, Dr. R G. Ranade, Dr. J. K. Nariman, Dr. G. L. has figured several times as three-quarters in the English Batra, Dr. Satis Das, Dr. G. Stiebd, Dr. S. N. Mukerjee, Dr. international fifteen. Kolaporewala, Dr. D. Giri, Dr. S. M. Chaudhuri, Dr. T. II. At the inquest on the bodies of those drowned, held on Bishop, Dr. R. C. Malhotra, Major T. O. Langston (retired 4th November, it was stated that the Rohilla struck a floating list), Dr. Satyendra Nath Roy, Dr. Jotendra Mohan Das mine, before she went ashore. Gupta, Dr. J. B. Molony, Dr. M. B. Yin, Dr. Bindaswari Dr. R. G. Oram, the ship's Surgeon, was also among those Prasad, Dr. B. S. Moonje, Dr. S. C. Sen Gupta, Dr. Ian saved. Grant, Dr. R. Jones, Dr. K- B. Kanga, and Dr. Sahavala. A later statement reports that all the medical officers were saved. Drs. Heald, Smyth, Watt, Collie, Pocock, and Chap- Major P. P- Atal, i.m s., who has been killed in action in man, were not on board, the names of Eastwood and Mac* France, was with the 129th Beluchis. He entered the service kenzie appear to be due to a mistake. on 29th January, 1899. 36 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Jan., 1915.

Raja Sir Harnam Singh's many friends will be grieved Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, clinical assistant in the Ophthal- to learn that his son, Captain Kunvvar Indarjit Singh, I.M.S., mic department. Charing Cross Hospital, and Ophthalmic 57th Wilde's Rifles, was killed in action in France on the Surgeon to King Edward's Hospital, Windsor. Hetranslated 23rd November- Oxenfeldt's Bacteriology of the Eye, and contributed various papers on his speciality to the medical journals. During the South African war he served with the New Zealand contin- The London Evening News of 29th October publishes a gent, and received the medal. long account of the hardships experienced as a prisoner in Captain A. C. Osburn, r.a.m.c., attached to the -1th Germany by Colonel A. F. Dobson, I.M.S., retired, who was Dragoon Guards, has been admitted to the Royal Victoria undergoing a cure in the Tyrol when war was declared. Hospital, Netley, wounded. lie entered the army as Colonel Andrew Francis Dobson was born on 10th June, Lieutenant on 26th August, 1903, and became Captain on 28th 1818, so is now more than sixty-six years old, much over the February, 1907. He was recently stationed at Netley. age for military service, so that there was no military neces- Captain Alexander Morton Pollard, r.a.m.c., was sity for his detention as a prisoner, even apart from the state educated at King's College, London, and took the M. R. C. S. of his health. He entered the Madras Service on 30th March, and L. R. C. P. London in 1906. After serving as Assistant 1872, and retired, after five years in the administrative rank, House Surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, on 28th May, 1906. Surgeon of King's College Hospital, and resident medical This account shows the animosity of the enemy against officer at the St. John and St. Elizabeth Hospital, he anything British. It has been reproduced in most of the entered the R. A. M. C. as Lieutenant on 1st August, 190S, Indian newspapers and need not be here requoted. and became Captain on 1st February, 1912. He was recently stationed at Colchester. Lieutenant J. A. O'Drisooll joined the Special Reserve We are glad to learn that Surgeon-General Harris, C S.I., as Lieutenant on 27th April 1914. His name does not appear I.M.S., has been again put on the Bengal Legislative Council. in the Medical Register. As the Surgeon Generals with the Government of Madras Assistant-Surgeon Frederick Joseph Bernard, and of Bengal are always members of the Councils of those I.S.M.D., was born on 22nd February 1880, attained warrant Presidencies it is presumed that the appointment of Surgeon- rank on 13th March 1902, and reached his present grade, the General Harris is an example which will in future be third, on 31st March, 1907. He is a Madras man, and was followed. recently stationed at Malapurara. The recent naval action in the Pacific, in the beginning of November, appears to have resulted in the loss of the Good list the names of The Casualty of 7th November included Hope and Monmouth, though detailed accounts are not yet 10 killed and medical 23 officers, 13 wounded. One officer. (8th Dec ) to hand, and no list of casualties has yet been pub- was It was Lieutenant G. R. Grant, wounded. also stated lished. The Navy List gives the following as the Medical that Captain B. Johnson, R.A.M.C., reported missing on 24th Staff of the two ships. Fleet Surgeon Walsh joined his ship a W. R.A October, is prisoner ; and that Captain Egan, M.C., in August 1913, the others at the beginning of the War. captured at Landrecies on 28th August, is a prisoner at Good Hope.?Fleet Surgeon J. J. Walsh, Surgeon Francis Crefold, near Dusseldorf. C. Searle, Surgeon Reserve Francis L. J. M. deVerteuvil. Monmouth.?Staff Surgeon Henry Woods, Surgeon Albert A MUCH longer list appeared in the Times of 9th November, J. Tomkinson. and gave 91 names, 17 killed, 57 wounded, and 17 missing. Captain R. G Kinkeai, R.A.M.C., was killed, C aptain H. G. As we go to press wo learn that Major T. F. Pater- Gibson, and Lieutenant C. W. B. Littlejohn, R A.M.c., son, I.M s., has been wounded in the fighting in the wounded. Persian Gulf region. Major Paterson was Medical Officer Captain Richard George Kinkead was educated at of the 37th Buluch Horse. Formerly he was in Civil employ Queen's'College, Galway, took the M.B., B. Ch., and B.A C, at Surat. of the Royal University of Ireland in 1908, and after serving as Assistant House Surgeon of the Coventry and Warwick Maulvi Muhammad Muti-Ullah Khan, Khan Bahadur, Hospital, entered the Army as Lieutenant on 31st July 1909, Deputy Magistrate,|to hold executive charge, and Lieutenant- becoming Captain on olst January 1913- He was recently Colonel W. Woodvvright, I.M.S., Civil Surgeon, to hold stationed at Bloemfontein. medical charge of the Bareilly Central Prison as a temporary Captain Howard Graeme Gibson is a Guy's man. He measure in addition to their own duties, from the afternoon took the M. R. C. P. and L. R. C. S., London, in 1907, of 24th October, 1914, vice Major J. E. Clements, I.M.S., entered as Lieutenant on 28th January, 1907, and became reverted to military duty. Captain on 28th July, 1910. He had recently been through the R.A.M-C. College. Mlt. E. Thomas. Deputy Magistrate, to hold executive and Dr. H. A. Macleod, Civil to hold Lieutenant G. R. Grant, entered the R. A. M. Special charge Surgeon, medical of the Central and District Jails, Fatehgarli, Reserve as Lieutenant on 4th June, 1912. His name is not in charge as a in addition to their own the Medical Directory. temporary measure, duties, with effect from the afternoon of 22nd October, 1914, vice Lieutenant W. C. B. Littlejohn had only just qualified Capt. I. M. Macrae, I.M.S., reverted to military duty. and got a temporary commission as Lieutenant from 8th 1914. August, Mr. C. F. Wood, i.c.s., Joint Magistrate, to hold executive charge, and Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. Crawford. I.M.S., Civil No list of casualties was issued on 10th November, but the Surgeon, to hold medical charge of Central and District Jails, Times of 11th November published the largest list of casualties Benares, as a temporary measure, in addition to their own among officers yet given out; of the British expeditionary duties, from the afternoon of 21st October, 1914, vice Captain force, 23 killed, 36 wounded, 5 missing; of the Indian C. E. Palmer, I.M.S., reverted to military duty. contingent, 26 British officers killed. 13 wounded, and 3 missing ; and of Native officers, 8 killed, 12 wounded, and 3 The Assistant Surgeon attached to the sadr dispensary, missing ; a total of 129. Among them wore Lieutenant J. A. Rae Bareli, to hold civil medical charge of that district in O'Driscoll, R.A.M.C., wounded, and Captain A. M. Pollard, addition to his own duties, vice Major Walker, I.M.S., R.A M.C., missing. Besides these, Lieutenant Angus Macnab, reverted to military duty. hold Medical Officer of the London Scottish, was reported killed, The Civil Surgeon of Lucknow to visiting medical Assistant Surgeon F. J. Bernard, I.S.M.D., died, and Captain charge of the Rae Bareli district, vice Major Walker, i.m.s., A. C. Osburn, r.a.m.c., wounded, though these names did reverted to military duty. not appear in the official casualty lists. Lieutenant Angus Macnab was attached to the 14th Civil Assistant Surgeon Dinesh Krishna Mukerji, (County of London) Battalion of the London Regiment, a attached to the sadr dispensary, Moradabacl, to hold civil Territorial Battalion of the London Scottish, his commission medical charge of that district in addition to his own duties, being dated 1st March, 1911. The Times states that in the vice Major Willmore, I.M.S., reverted to military duty. recent charge by the London Scottish, when the battalion THE Civil Surgeon of Bareilly to hold visiting medical temporarily gave way, the advancing Germans bayoneted charge of the Moradabad district, vice Major Willmore, Lieutenant Macnab, and the wounded whom he was attending. I.M.S., reverted to military duty. He was a New Zealander, a brother of Mr. Robert Macnab, sadr late Minister of Agriculture in the Dominion. He was edu- The Assistant Surgeon attached to the dispensary, cated at the Universities of Otago, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Ghazipur, to hold civil medical charge of that district, in and. Vienna ; took the B. A. in 1895 and the B. Sc. in 1896 at addition to his own duties, vice Major Wells, I.M.S., reverted Otago, the M.B. and B. Ch. in 1901, and the F. R. C. S. to military duty. England in 1904. He was a consulting ophthalmic surgeon at 10, Harley Street, London. After filling the post of House The Civil Surgeon of Benares to hold visiting medical Surgeon in the Ophthalmic department at the Edinburgh charge of the Ghazipur district, vice Major Wells, I.m.s., Royal Infirmary, he was chief clinical assistant at the reverted to military duty. Jan., 1915] SERVICE NOTES. 37

MAJOR 11. E. Lloyd, I.M S., Professor of Medi- Mr. W. i.c.s., Sabdivisional Officer, made Biology, Johnston, cal College, Calcutta, is appointed to hold charge of the over executive of the Buxar Central Jail to charge Major duties of Resident Physician of the College F. II. in the forenoon of the 22nd October Hospital, Watling, I.M.S., in addition to his own duties, with effect from the afternoon 1914. The latter officer was relieved of the executive again of the 20th October 1914, or until further orders. charge of the Central Jail by Mr. W, Johnston, I.O.S., Subdivisional in the same forenoon. Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson, f.rc.s., dp.ii., i.m.s., lias been permitted to retire. He has recently received a Babu Surendra Nath Sen Assistant Surgeon, Gupta, sanitary appointment under the Local Government Board. made over medical charge of the Buxar Central Jail to F. H. I.M.8., in the forenoon of the 22nd Major Watling, Lieutenant-Colonel It. H. Elliot, i.m.s., has been 1914. The latter officer was relieved of the October, again granted an extension of furlough on medical certificate. medical charge of the Central Jail by Babu Surendra Nath Sen Assistant in the same forenoon. Gupta, Surgeon, Lieutenant-Colonel C. Duer, f.r.c.s., i.m.s., has been permitted to retire with effect from 29th November, J913. The degree of M. D. (Oxon.) has been conferred on Capt. Lt. Col. Duer was for many years a Civil Surgeon in Ran- O. A. It. Berkeley Hill, in absentia. goon and other parts_ of Burma, where he represented this Gazette as an Associate Editor. He was recently Civil Tiie following 44 officers of the Indian Medical Service Surgeon of Simla, but had to take leave on medical certi- have reverted to military duty in the first half of November :? ficate. Colonel Seton ; Lieutenant Colonels Austen, Smith, Pereira, Mitter, Stevens, Milne, Crawford, Entrican, Hugo and His Excellency the Governor of Bombay in Council Browning Smith; Majors Hawey, James, Palton, Mackie, is pleased to make the following appointments pending Candon, Anderson, Illius, Kemps, Illington, Cameron, Chau- further orders : dhuri, Stephen, Maddock, Stewart, Murphy, King, Mtirison, Captain J. B. Hanafin, F.R.O.S.I, i.m.s., to act as Civil Ivnapton, Anthony, Dakhle, Christian, Lapsley, Williams, Surgeon, Aden, in addition to his Military duties, vice Broome, Innes. Lindesay, Chitale and Rainier, and Captains Major A. W. Tuke, F.R.C.S.I., D.r.H. (Ire.), I.M.S. Cragg, Pierpoint, Russell, Lack, Kelsall and Hobson. Captian A. G- Tresidder, M.D., i.m.s., to act as Personal Including this batch a total of 264 I. M. S. officers have Assistant to the Surgeon-General with the Government of been withdrawn from Civil employ. Bombay, in addition to his military duties, vice Major J. H. Horton, D.S.O., M.B-, I.M.S. The services of Major A. W. Overbeclc-Wright, I.M.S., Lunatic Asylum, substantive pro tempore, Dr. R. W. Fisher, m.b., B.eh., d.p.h. (R. U.J.), to act as Superintendent, in Agra, are placed at the disposal of the Government of the Civil Surgeon, Belgaum, addition to his own duties, Punjab. vice Captain F. Shingleton Smith, I.M.S. His the Governor of in Council is i.m s on Excellency Bombay Captain T. D. Murison, , plague duty, Gorakh- to appoint Major J. H. Horton, D.s.o., M.B., i.m.s., to officiate as Chief United Provinces. pleased pur, Plague Officer, who reverted to military duty with effect from the 14th September 1914, to continue to act as Personal Assistant with the The Civil of Gorakhpur to hold medical to the Surgeon-General |Government of Bombay Surgeon visiting duties charge of the Azamgarh district, with effect from the date, in addition to his Military pending further orders. Major N. S. Wells, I.M.S., Civil Surgeon, Ghazipur, reverted tenure as to military duty. ON the expiry of his Civil Surgeon, Paclimarhi, Major W. H. Kenrick, L.R.c.P., M.R.o.s., D.T.M., I.M.S., is posted to the Chhindwara District as Civil Surgeon. Surgeon-General Harris' troops of friends have been well to see that in the London October pleased Gazette, 19th, The services of the undermentioned officers are he has been to the replaced appointed Honorary Surgeon King, with at the of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in from the retirement of disposal effect, however, Surgeon-General India :? A. M. Crofts, C.I E-, on 25th May, 1914. Major W. F. Harvey, M.B., I.M.S. P. i.m.s. I, M. S. retired officers are coming to the front in various Major F. Mackie, M.B., f.r.c.s., Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Cragg, M.D., i.m.s. capacities, e.g., Gimlette, c.l E , i3 Captain gazetted as commanding a Hospital Ship ; Lieutenant-Colo- The services of the officers named below have been nel F. Wyville Thomson has been appointed S. M. O., Tay replaced " at the of His the Commaiuler-in Chief Defences, Dundee ; Sir Charles Bedford tells us he is back disposal Excellency in India:? to the army again." Lieutenant-Colonel D. G. Crawford and Lieutenant-Colonel Alpin have taken up recruiting jobs Major de V. Condon, I.M.S. and afterwards have been appointed to Hospital Ships. Major VV. M. Anderson, I.M.S. Lieutenant Colonel Sir H. H. Thornhill is appointed an Major S. Hunt, i.m.s., an Agency Surgeon of the 2nd Inspector of Medical Services in connection with places of Class, is posted as Agency Surgeon, Baghelkhand, with effect internment of prisoners of war. Lieutenant-Colonel Baker, from the 4th November 1914. as all know, is commanding the Indian Field Ambulance. The following promotion is made, subject to His Majesty's The services of the undermentioned officers are placed approval:? temporarily at the disposal of the Government of India in Lieutenant to be Captain, I.M.S. the Home with effect from the dates noted M.B Department Denis Fitzgerald Murphy, , dated the 29th July 1914. against their names :? Captain Murphy entered the service on 29tli July 1911. Of 1. Captain A. M. Jukes, afternoon of the 3rd this batch 10 officers are now promoted Captain out of 14. October, 1914. of the 20th Mr. G. H. Extra Assistant 2. Major A. B. Fry, I.M.S., afternoon October, _ Harris, Commissioner, 1914. assumed executive charge of the office of Superintendent of 3. Major D. P. Goil, i.M.s., afternoon of the 22nd October, the Montgomery Central Jail, in addition to his own duties, 1914. on the afternoon of the 22nd October 1914, relieving Major 4. Lieut.-Col. E. R. Parry, I.M.S., forenoon of the 26th A. VV. Greig, i.m.s., who reverted to military duty. October, 1914. 5. Major W. G. Hamilton, I.M s., afternoon of the 26th Pandit Chaman Lal, officiating Civil Surgeon, Montgo- October, 1914. mery, assumed medical charge of the Montgomery Central Jail, in addition to his own duties, on the afternoon of the October 1914. The services of the undermentioned officers are replaced 22nd at the of the Government of India in the Home disposal Mr. F. L. i Assistant Department with effect from the dates mentioned against Brayne, c.s., Commissioner, assumed executive of the office of their names charge Superintendent of the Mill tan Central Jail, in addition to his own on the 1. K. K. Mukerjee, i.m s., afternoon of the 1st duties, Captain afternoon of the 25th October R. M- 1914. 1914, relieving Major October, Dalziel, I.M.S., who reverted to military 2. Captain R. B. Lloyd, I.M.s., afternoon of the 20th duty. 1914. October, Major E. L. Ward, i.m.s., 3. F. H. Salisbury, I.M.S., afternoon of the 20th Superintendent, Lahore Captain Central Jail, assumed charge of tlie office of 1914. Superintendent October, of the Borstal Central and Female in addition 4. J. M. Woolley, i.M.s., afternoon of the 25th Jails, Lahore, Major to his own duties, on the afternoon of the 27th 1914. October 1914, October, relieving W. T. who 5. A. Denliam White, afternoon of the Captain Fjnlayson, i.m.s., reverted to Captain I.M.S., military duty. 26th October, 1914, 38 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Jan., 1915.

Lieutenant-Colonel D. G. Crawford, i.m.s. (retired) His Excellency the Governor of Bombay in Council is was appointed a Medical Officer on the Hospital ship Glenart pleased to appoint Assistant Surgeon R. S. Poredi, l.m. & s., Castle and when she was damaged by a collier off Tillbury, he to act as Civil Surgeon, Alibag, during the absence on leave was transferred to the H. S. Syria. The other I. M. S. Officers of Assistant Surgeon G. G- Bopardikar, l.m. & s., or pending attached were Lieutenant-Colonel Dawson; Lieutenant- further orders. Colonel Greatiy; Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert; Lieutenant- Colonel Hulbert; Major Peck; and Captain Pierpont (the Major R. VV. Anthony, m.b., c.m. (Edin.), f.r.c.s. (e.), i.m.s been allowed latter having just returned in charge of a wounded officer , has by His Majesty's Secretary of State from Persia). for India to return to duty. The Guilford Castle is another Hospital ship and had on board on the staff J. N. Macleod and Peck. His Excellency the Governor of Bombay in Council is It is an eminently sound measure to thus employ the able pleased to make the following appointments, pending further and willing retired officers and to leave those on the active orders :? list for the duties in the Field. Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. McDonald, m.b., c.m. S on (Edin.), I.M , return from leave, to do duty as Civil Major V. E. H. Lindksay, i.m.s., Civil Surgeon of Puri, Surgeon, Thana, and Superintendent, Lunatic Asylum, has gone to military duty. Navpada, vice Major L. P. Stephen, M B., B ch. (Abdn.), D P H- (Lond ), FR C.S. (E), dtm. and II (Cantab ), I.M.S. Captain T. D. Murison, i.m.s., officiating Chief Plague Officer, United Provinces, to hold civil medical charge of Major A. W. Tore, f.r.c.s. (i.), d.f.h., i.m.s., to act as Civil Muttra in addition to his own duties. Surgeon, Karachi, in addition to his military duties, vice Major A. F. W King, F.ii.c.s. (E.), I.M s. Miss K. Wall, l.r.c.p. & s. (Edin.), f.r.c.s., l.m. (Dub.), is appointed as a temporary Civil Assistant Surgeon in The services of the undermentioned officers of'jtlie Jail Burma, with effect from the date on which she assumes Department are placed temporarily at the disposil of His charge of her duties. Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in India, with effect from the dates on which they were relived of their duties (2. W. i.M s. On return from leave Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. Castor, Captain Maconachie, W. L. i.m.s. I.M.S., is appointed to be Civil Surgeon, Pegu, as a temporary Captain Forsyth, F. A. Barker, i M S. measure, in place of Civil Assistant Surgeon Maung Sliwe Ge. Captain Captain S- W. Jones, I.M s. VV. I.M.S. First Class Assistant W. L. Brookes, Captain A- Maarns, Military Surgeon P. K. I.M S. Civil Surgeon, Kindat, is to be Civil Surgeon, Captain Tarapore, appointed D. C. V. Fitzgerald, I M S. Monywa, as a temporary measure, in place of Senior Military Captain Assistant Surgeon and Honorary Lieutenant E. J. Murphy., transferred. Major F. E. Wilson, Indian Medical Service, an officiat- ing Agency Surgeon of the 2nd class, is appointed tem- porarily to hold visiting of the office of ON relief first class W. L. charge Residency by Military Assistant Surgeon Mewar, in addition to his own duties, with effect and Surgeon, Brookes, Senior Military Assistant Surgeon Honorary from the 1st November, 1911, and until further orders. Lieutenant E. J. Murphy is appointed to be Civil Surgeon, as a in of H. A. Mandalay, temporary measure, place Major Major P. C. Douglass, Army Medical com- been at Royal Corps, Williams, D.S.O., i.m.s., whose services have replaced manding Station Hospital, Nowgong, is appointed tem- the of the disposal Government of India. porarily to hold charge of the current duties of the appoint- ment of Agency Surgeon in Bundelkhand, in addition to his Captain F. J. is to hold Kolapore, i.m.s., appointed own duties, with effect from the 17th September, 1914, and collateral charge of the Civil Surgeoncy of the Bhamo until further orders. District, in place of Captain L. A. H. Lack, I.M.S., whoso have Govern- services been replaced at the disposal of the DOCTOR H. T. Holland, Church Missionary Society, is ment of India. appointed to officiate temporarily as an Agency Surgeon, 2nd class, and is posted as Civil Surgeon, Sibi, with effect from The services of the following officers are replaced at the the 7tli October 1914, and until further orders. disposal of the Government of India in the Home Depart- ment The services of the undermentioned officers of the Indian Service are at the of Lieutenant Colonel J. Entrican, I.M.S. Medical placed temporarily disposal His the for on the H. A. D.S.O., I.M.S. Excellency Commander-in-Chief employment Major Williams, the 10th R. I.M.S. hospital ship Madras, with effect from Novem- Captain Kelsall, 1914 Captain L. A. H. Lack, I.M.S. ber Lieutenant-Colonel G. G. Giffard, C.S.I. Second class military Assistant Surgeon P. A. Scanlon Major T. H. Symons. is appointed to officiate as Civil Surgeon, Falam, in place of Major Dewan Ganpat Rai. Senior Military Assistant Surgeon and Honorary Lieutenant Captain E. W. C. Bradfield. L. K. Rodriguez, transferred. Captain Hugh Stott. On relief by second class Military Assistant Surgeon P. A. The services of the undermentioned medical officers are Scanlon, Senior Military Assistant Surgeon and Honorary placed temporarily at the disposal of the Government of Lieutenant L. K. Rodriguez is appointed to be Civil Surgeon, India, Army Department, with effect from the dates they Meiktila, in place of Lieutenant-Colonel J. Penny, I.M.S., hand over charge : transferred. Major N. R. J. Rainier, m.r.c.s., d.p.h., i.m.s., Civil Sur- geon, Raipur. Major P. K. On relief by Senior Assistant Surgeon and Chitale, l.r.c.p., l.r.c.s., l.f.p.s., i.m.s., Military Civil Damoh. Honorary Lieutenant L. K. Rodriguez, Lieuenant-Colonel Surgeon, J. Penny. I.M.S., is to be Civil Surgeon of the appointed First Class Assistant A. D. C. Perdrian, Amherst District, in placc of Lieutenant-Colonel J. Eutrican, Military Surgeon Central is I.m.s., whose services have been at the of officiating Superintendent, Jail, Raipur, placed replaced disposal in the Civil the Government of India. temporarily collateral charge of Surgeoncy, Raipur. Pending the arrival of Lieutenant-Colonel J. Penny, The and reversions are ordered in I.M.S., Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. Castor, i.m.s., is appointed following promotions the Civil Medical Burma : to the civil medical charge of the Amherst District, as a Department, temporary measure. Lieutenant-Colonel T. W. Stewart, i.m.s., on return from leave, resumes charge of the duties of a first class Civil with the 18th 1914. His Excellency the Governor in Council is pleased to Surgeon in Burma, effect from September, Major E. R. Rost, to officiate as first class Civil l)r. Accacio da L.M & s., D.P.H., d.t.m. & H., i.m.s., appoint Gama, of his return to i. to act as Central Surgeon, with effect from the date duty, e., Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Registra- C. tion District, pending further orders. 12th September, 1914, vice Lieutenant-Colonel Duer, i.m.s., on leave. Assistant Surgeon G. G. Bopardikar, l.m. & s., Civil Surgeon. Alibag, has been granted from the 20th The services of the officer named below have been replaced September 1914 such privilege leave of absence as may be at the disposal of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief due to him on that date in combination with furlough for in India such period as may bring the combined period of absence up Major G. D. Franklin, i.m.s., Agency Surgeon, to eight months and nine days. Southern States of Central India, Jan., 1915.] SERVICE NOTES. 39

The services of Major S. H. Lee-Abbott, m.b., i.m.s., Major F. A. L. Hammond, i.m.s., to continue officiating are at the of the Government as first class Civil vice Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. placed permanently disposal Surgeon of the Punjab. Castor, I.M.S., on leave. On relief by Major P. F. Chapman, m.b., C.M., I.M.S., Major i to revert to a second class Civil P. Dee, M.S., on return from privilege leave, Honorary Captain John Surgeoncy, with effect from the 18tli September 1914, the date Robertson, J.S.M.D., officiating Civil Surgeon, Nagpur, is on W. re- which Lieutenant-Colonel T. Stewart, i.m.s., reposted as Civil Surgeon, Narsinghpur. turned from leave. Lieutenant-Colonels S. E. Prall, m.b., b s. (Lond.), The following gentlemen have been appointed as temporary I.M.S. ; and J. H. McDonald, m.b., c.m. (Edin.), I.M.S., have Civil Assistant Surgeons, in Burma, with effect from the dates been allowed by His Majesty's Secretary of State for India specified against their names :? to return to duty. Mr. Pranjiwan Maneckchand Mehta, L.M. & S., 2nd September, 1914. Consequent oil the retirement of Dr. Gobind Narayan Mr. Abdul Husen -Jivaji Kapasi, L.M. & s., 1st October, 1914. Das, Dr. Shanker Das, sub. pro tem. Civil Surgeon, Pilibhit, as a from Mr. Parsram Bulchand Shivdasani, M B , B.S., 5th October, to be confirmed Civil Surgeon the 22nd September, 1914. 1914, but to be on probation for one year and to continue at Mr. Dadablioy Dinsliaw Variava, m.b., b.s,, 13th October, Pilibhit. 1914. Mr. Y. L-M. 19th October, 1914. Viswanathiab, &S., The services of A. F. i.m.s., officiating L.M. & 24th 1914. Captain Babonau, Mr. llatilal Mohanlal Fozdar, s., October, Civil Naga Hills, are placed at the 24tli 1914. Surgeon, temporarily Mr. T. L. Malkani, M.B., B.S., October, of the Military Department with elfect from the L.M. & disposal Mr. Jaganath Vishnu Shrigaonkar, s., M.R.C.S., 17th 1914. L September, R.o.P , u.p.h., and D.T-M. & H., 27th October, 1914. Mr. Marutirao Chavan, L.M. & s., 8th Novem- Narayanrao P. K. ber, 1914, The services of Captain Tarapore, l.M.s., Superin- tendent, Mandalay Central Jail, are replaced at the disposal of the Government of India in the Home Department. Lieutenant Colonel F. E. Swinton, i.m.s., Medical to Bombay, is 8 months' Storekeeper Government, granted The services of the following officers are replaced at the combined leave on medical leave for certificate, i.e., privilege of the Government of India in the Home 1 month and 4 and for the disposal Depart- days furlough remaining period, ment :? under India, Volume II, paragraph 22Army Regulations, Lieut.-Col. T. Stopart, i.m.s. ; Liect.-Col. F. J. Dewes, with effect from the 18th 1914. 23rd year pension September, ims.; Major F. V. O. Bkit, i.m.s ; Caitain H. B. Scott, service commenced 27th 1914. July, i, m s. ; Captain H. S. Matson, im s. Major C. M. I.m.s., is to officiate as a Mathevv, appointed The services of the undermentioned officers are replaced Medical to Government, with effect from the Storekeeper at the disposal of the Government of India in the Home 18th September, 1914, and is posted to the Medical Store Department : Depot, Bombay. Major J. C. H. Leicester, i.m.s. ; Major J. J. Urwin, Major G. King, i m.s. ; Captain W. Gillitt, i.m.s. Liectenant-Colonel Joseph George Hulbert, m.b., i.m.s.; has been permitted the Most Hon'ble the Secretary of by Captain R. Brown, i.s m.d , on return from is State for India to retire from the to His leave, service, subject appointed to be Civil Surgeon of Sambalpur. Majesty's approval, with effect from the 27th July, 1914. Notification No. dated the 2Gth (Army Department 601, Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. S. Vaughan, i.ms., Civil is June, 1914, hereby cancelled.) Surgeon of Bhagalpur, is appointed temporarily to officiate, in addition to his own duties, as Superintendent of Bhagal- The of J. L. F.R.C.S.I., promotion Major Lunliam, M.B., Central Jail, with effect from the afternoon of the 24th notified in Notification No. 910. dated the pur Army Department September, 1914. 9th October, 1914, is antedated from 1st September, 1914 to 1st March, 1915, i.e., G months accelerated promotion. The following promotions are made, subject to His Major E. J. O'Meara, i.m.s., on return from leave, to be Mcdical Majesty's approval : Civil Surgeon and Principal, School, Agra.

to be i.m.s Captains Majors. Major W. S. Wilmore, , Civil Surgeon, from Agra William Samuel Jagoe Shaw, m.d., Dwarka Prasad Goil, to Moradabad. m.b., F.u.c.s.G., 3lst July, 1914, i.e., both officers receive 6 months i.m.s accelerated promotion. Lieutenant-Colonel J- Morwood, , Civil Surgeon, from Moradabad to Shahjahanpur. Lieutenant-Colonel E. R. Parry, i.m.s., made over | charge of the Midnapore Central Jail to Major J. 13. Honorary Captain J. T. Parkinson, j.s.m.d., Civil Christian, I.M.S., on the forenoon of the ?Gth October, 1914. Surgeon, from Shahjahanpur to Hardoi.

Major W. G. Hamilton, i.m.s., made over the executive The services of Captain \V. P. G. Williams, i m.s., on charge of the Presidency Jail to Mr. A. H. W. Leonard, the plague duty, Lucknow, are replaced at the disposal of' the Deputy Superintendent of the Jail, on the afternoon of the Government of India, Army department, with effect from 26tli October, 19 4. the date on which he relinquishes charge of his present duties.

Major J. M. Woolley, i.m.s., made over medical charge Under Section 6 of the Prisons Act, 1S94, the Chief of the Dacca Central Jail to Lieutenant-Colonel A. R. S. Commissioner is pleased to appoint Mr. A. Macleod i.c.s. Anderson, i.m.s., on the afternoon of the 25tli October, 1914. Assistant Commissioner, Nagpur, to the executive charge of

vice F. ' the Central Jail, Nagpur, Major O. N. Mell ' M B '' Major J. M. Woolley. i m.s., made over the executive c M., i.m.s., transferred. charge of the Dacca Central Jail to Mr. D C. Patterson, i.C.s., Additional District on the afternoon of the Magistrate, Major H. J. i.m.s., of 2Gth 1914. Walton, professor October, medical on King George's college, Lucknow, being relieved'' to be civil surgeon, Saliaranpur. On being relieved of his duties as officiating Professor of Ophthalmic Medical Calcutta, W. Surgery, College, Major Miss A M. Benson m.d., First V. i.m.s., is to do at the Physician, Pestonji Cnppinger, appointed general duty Cama for Women and General with effect from the afternoon Hormasjt Hospital Children, Bombay Presidency Hospital, has been leave of absence for six weeks with of the 21st October, 1914. granted privilege effect from the 7th September, 1314. Captain H. B. Drake, i.m.s., was posted as Deputy Capt. R. E. Flowerdew, i.m.s., Port Assay Master, Bombay, with effect from the 5th September, Blair, having been at tlid" of the J. H. ' 191t, and his services have since been placed disposal Army, Major Murray ' temporarily replaced took over his duties in the at the disposal of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief I.M.S., S.M.O., Andanians. in with effect from the 23rd and until India, October, 1914, notification further orders. Corrigendum.?From No. 2678-Est. A. dated the 22nd October, 1914, replacing the services of certain officers of the Indian Medical Service at the Lieutenant-Colonel J. J- Bourse, i.m.s., was disposal of His posted the Commander-in-Chief in as Master, Calcutta, with effect from the 10th Excellency India, omit the name Assay of F, D. S. i.m.s. September, 1914, on being recalled from furlough. Major Fayrer, 40 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Jan, 1915.

The services of the officers named below have been replaced Mr. F. B. Plunlcett, Jailor, Central Prison, Ahmedabad, His at the disposal of Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in to act as Superintendent of His Majesty's Common Prison India : and Civil Jail and Governor of the Government Female Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Grant, i.MS. (Ben.); Major Work house, Bombay. W. R, Battye, I.M.S. ; Major G. King, M.B., I.M.S- ; Captain W. Gillitt, M.D., I M.S. ; Major M. H. Thornely, F.R.C-S.E., Khan Saheb Kaikhosru Personal I.M.S.; Major T. H. Delany, m.d., i.m.s. ; Major VV. C. Ross, IWancherji Clubvala, Assistant to the of to act as M.B., I.M.S. ; Major F. H. Watling, M.B., I.M.S. ; Major L. E. Inspector-General Prisons, Gilbert, M.I)., I.M.S. Superintendent of the Hyderabad Central Prison. The Assistant The services of the undermentioned officers are placed Surgeon attached to the Civil Hospital, temporarily at the disposal of His Excellency the Commander- Hyderabad, to be in medical charge of the Central Piison, in-Chief in India : Hyderabad, in addition to his own duties. Major J. VV. F. Rait, M.B., I.M.S.; Major C. A. Gourlay, Mr. to hold M.D., I.M.S.; Major E. O- Thurston, M.B., f.r.c.s., I M.s. ; Raghumal Chataram Motwani, M.B., B.S., medical of the Majon M. Mackelvie, m.b., f.r.c.s.e., I.M.S.; Major H. B. charge Ahmedabad Central Prison. Steen, M.D., I.M.S.; Major D. Munro, M.B., F.R.C.S.E., I.M.S..; 11. H. Lee, M.B., I.M.s. ; J. A. Shorten, M.B., Captain Captain His Excellency the Governor of Bombay in Council is Lieutenant-Colonel T. M.B., I.M.S.; Stodart, I.M.S.; to make tha further Lieutenant-Colonel F. J. F. V. O. pleased following appointments pending Dewes, I.M.S.; Major Beit, orders :? M.D., i.m.s.; Captain H. 15. Scott, I.M.S-; Captain H. S. Matson, M.B., i.m.s. Assistant Surgeon Ardeshir Manekji Dotiv^la, L.M.&S., to act as Civil Surgeon, Larkana, vice Captain M. S. Irani, I. M.S. The services of Major R. i.m.s., are at McCarrison, placed Assistant Mehta, L.M. k S., to the of His the Commander-in-Chief in Surgeon Sliapurji Manekji disposal Excellency act as Civil with attached vice, India. Surgeon, Karwar, duties, Major B. B. Paymaster, i.m.s. Assistant Surgeon Ganpat Damodar Chitre, L.M. & S., to of are The services the undermentioned officers placed act as Civil Surgeon, Nasik, vice Major A. J. V. Betts, m.b. temporarily at the disposal of His Excellency the Commander- (Lond.), I.M.S. in India : ? in-Chief Assistant Surgeon Pirozshali Pestonji Balsara, L.M. & s., H. M S. Major J. C. Leicester, m.d., F.R.C s., I ; Major J. J. to act as Civil Surgeon, Sholapur, vice Captain R. F. Steel, Ul'win, M l!., F R.C.S., I.M.S. M.B,, B.ch. iDub.), I.M.S, The undermentioned their military pupils having passed C. R. to hold final examination to be 4tli Class Assistant with Major Bakhle, J.M.S., Civil Surgeon, Sukkur, Surgeons, of the Civil at in effect from the 5th October 1914 visiting charge Surgeoncy Jacobabad, addition to his own M. A. Borkman Lovell Austian Noel Greenway, duties, vice Captain Nicholson, George Pigot, I.M.S. George John Boucher, Norman Alfred Michael, Robert M.B., Mascarenhas, Stanley Christian Vanderwart, Henry Lionel Cl oning, Trevelyan Kenneth Clarke Boswell. Military Assistant Surgeox A. H. Bhodie has passed the Higher Standard test in the Baluchi language. Captain Gerald Lewis Colhoun Little, m.b., has been transferred by the Most Hon'ble the Secretary of State for India to the Temporary Half-Pay List, subject to His Majesty's approval, with effect from the 15th November, 1914. Captain Little entered the service in August, 1908, and the Army List showed liim as with the 95th Infantry. The undermentioned officers have been permitted by the Most Hon'ble the Secretary of State for India to retire from the service, subject to His Majesty's approval, with effect from the dates specified Lieutenant-Colonel George Yeates Cobb Hunter, 25th October, 1914. Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Wilkinson, F.R.C.S,, 13th November, 1914,

Lieutenant-Colonel Hunter entered the service in January, 1903, and became Lieutenant-Colonel 17th November, 1913- He served and did excellent work in the Jail Depart- ment of Bengal and the C. P. He went home on 30th March, 1911, and has been on the sick list ever since.

Lieutenant Colonel E. Wilkinson, f.r.c.s., i.m.s., was Sanitary Commissioner, Bengal, and went on leave last February. He recently obtained a Sanitary appointment under the Local Government Board, Loudon.

Lieutenant-Colonel D. T. Lane, m.d., i.m.s.. made over charge of the duties of Superintendent of the District Jail at Ambala to Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. T. Buist, M.B., I.m.s,, on the forenoon of the 23rd October, 1914.

William Patrick O'Connor, m.d,, m.r.c.s., to be Surgeon-Lieutenant, Chota Nagpur Light Horse, dated the 1st September, 1914.

Surgeon-Captain William Brown, m.d., to be Surgeon- Major, Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles, dated the 1st September, 1914.

Surgeon-Lieutenant Oliver Edward McCutcheon, m.b., to be Surgeon-Captain, dated the 1st September, 1914. The Governor of Bombay in Council is pleased to make the following appointments vice Captain S. W. Jones, i.m.s, and Captain W. A. Mearns, i.m.s., on military duty Khan Salieb Nasarvanji Rustamji Vachha, Acting Superintendent of His Majesty's Common Prison and Civil Jail, Bombay, to act as Superintendent of the Ahmedabad Central Prison.