is worth money we have subscribed. The following letter reproducing :? To the Editor. SI it,?I have read with much interest the letters lately published in the Pioneer regarding the Indian Military Service Family Pension Funds, and am prepared to join tlie any movement that has for its object an inquiry into administration of these funds. All Indian Army officers are in the same position as shareholders, but have no voice in the management. An examination of the accounts published in April 1911 shows the receipts to exceed the jlpice Hotes. expenditure by ?773,634 in the years 1903 to 1908, and owing to the increased amount on which interest is allowed, the receipts during the current five years will probably exceed the expenditure by some ?850,000. The expenses of LIST. management are put down for the five years at ?11,107-11-11 THE DURBAR HONOUR in India, and ?6,270 6-3 in England, or some Rs. 2,900 a month in India and ?1,250 a year at home. It is open to (MEDICAL MEN.) doubt if the Controller of Account?, Eastern Command, gets Rs. 500 a mouth extra for managing the accounts and K.C.S.I. it leaves a balance sufficiently large to pay an army of Babus to lis. 40 a Surgeon General C. P. Lukis, C.S.I. at pay from Ks. 80 month. at Home Surgeon-General Trevor, P.M.O., India. As the work apparently only consists in deducting the authorised amounts from pay of officers on C.S.I. furlough and from pensioners and paying pensions, the Surgeon-General Bannerman, Madras. emoluments appear sufficient. Colonel G. F. A. Harris, I.M.S. If the balance, now amounting to ?2,165,649, were Lt.-Col. Aldrige, R.A.M.C. distributed among three or four Insurance Companies and contributions paid to othcers' widows K.C.I.E. the present thein, would probably get better pensions than they do now and Surgeon-General A. M. Branfoot, I.M.S. (retd.) single officers would be able to get a lump sum at the age to leave to C.I.E. of 52 or have money their relatives. Two cases have come to my knowledge : (?) A colonel, Lt.-Col. C i.M.s. Mactaggart, now dead, subscribed for over 30 years, donations L. paid Major Rogers, I.M.S. and for four sons and five daughters. At the Lt.-Col. E. P. subscriptions Frenchman, I.M.S. (retd.) time of his death all the sons were over 21 and all the H. Major Burdon, i.m.s. daughters married; he must have paid altogether some Lt.-Col. J. 11. I.M.S. a Roberts, ?1,200 to ?1,500 and not single member of his family F. F. I.M.S. A a Major Elwes, received any benefit,, (b) colonel, now serving, widower with one married daughter, lias up to date paid some ?800 M.V.O. (4th Class). to the funds and will receive nothing back. In both these had been and Colonel J. Bamber, I.M.s. cases if the money spent in insurance both (a) (/j) would have been entitled to at least ?1,800 and ?1,0110 To be Knight. respectively on attaining the age of 52 or at death if it The amount in Lt.-Uol. C. H. Bedford, I.M.S. occurred previously. paid subscriptions by both (?) and (b) would not have provided enough to pay the widow and but it must also be Kaiser-i-Hind Medals. annuities for daughter, remembered that the annuity to a colonel's widow is not Gold. likely to be drawn for very many years. Major A. E. Walter, i.m.s. A credit balance of ?2,165,649 seems to the lay mind quite Major A. Gwyther, i.m.s. sufficient to meet any abnormal increase of pensioners, Capt. J. N. J. Tyrell, i.m.s. due to a war on a large scale, and pending such a war it the Major W. H, Tucker, i.m.s. would seem well within resources of the fund, instead of some ?160,000 a year, to increase the Silver. accumulating present scale of annuities by 50 per cent. Calculating from Lala Mathura Dass, Punjab. the figures given in the report dated April 1911 this would Subedar A Rassali Khan. absorb about ?27,400 a year, and enough would remain to Sub-Asst. -Surgeon Ihsa Ali. be able to refund to unmarried subscribers and any others Usman Navvas Khan. who elect to withdraw their subscriptions with interest. Shailc Ali tshutash. Enough should still remain to add some ?100,000 a year to Mahomed Naimullah. the accumulated balance. Government generously allows interest on the accumulated Khan a Bahadur. balance at 4^ per cent, year, but in reality is not called R. J. Kapadia, Bombay. upon to pay anything as the amount received in subscrip- tions, donations, etc., exceeded the payments by ?378,100 Rai Bahadur. for the five years 1903 to 1908. Dr. Upendranath Bramachari, Calcutta. The following useful information is republished Khan Sahib. With reference to the correspondence ending with Mr. letter No. Munshi Mahomed Yasin. Stephenson's 1090T., dated the 3rd October 1910, Sayed Ali Naki. I am directed to forward a copy of a letter from the Sanitary with the Abdul Aziz. Commissioner Government of India, No. 1495. dated ^ayed the 29th June 1911 ; and to V1'* H; Cawasji, i,.u. & s. say that the Government of India Ardeshir Cawasji. hare approved of the revised procedure therein suggested for the selection of officers to attend the next malaria class Rai Saheb. at Amritsar. I am to request that it may be arranged that liirish to attend Chunder Banerjee, Calcutta. applications the class which are approved by you vjirish Chunder Das, Tczpur. may be forwarded to the Sanitary Commissioner with the Lala Kishan Chand, Punjab. Government of India. oobha Singh. Punjab. 2. The officers and subordinates attending the next and Satish Chandr Ba'bu, Port Blair. all future malaria classes, and their locum tenentes will Rama Rao, Madras. receive pay and allowances on the following terms : Mutha Golab Roy, Madras. (1) Officers (including subordinates) deputed? Wadathil Madhava Menon Avergal. (a) full pay and allowances and other local P. D. including jail Sawmy Pillay. allowance* which they were drawing immediately before their Pandit Govind Gadey. deputation ; (b) travelling allowances under the ordinary rules for the P. I. M. F. Fund. journey to and from the class ; but We have more than once commented on this Fund and (/?) no deputation allowance ; are their locum glad to see a correspondence in the Pioneer on the subject. (2) tenentes will get the allowances which would I he Fund is invaluable to I.M.S. Officers and all that anyone ordinarily be admissible to them if the officers for whom they has a right to complain of is that we subscribers do not and act were absentees within the meaning of Article 6 of the have not got the full assurance or actuarial value for the Civil Service Regulations. 46 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Jan., 1912. No. 1495, dated Simla, the 29th June 1911. 6th September 1911. regarding promotion to the Commis- sioned in the Indian Medical -The Commissioner with the Government grades Subordinate Depart- From Sanitary ment of India. To?The Secretary to the Government of India, Depart- George, r.i. ment of Education, Simla. Whereas we have deemed it expedient to alter the rank and With referenoe to correspondence ending with Education designation of the senior officers of the Indian Subor- endorsement No. 376, Sanitary, dated the 4th dinate Medical Department. Department Our will of March 1911, 1 have the honour to state, for the information and pleasure is that Our Warrant 12th March 1894 be of Government, that at the meeting of the Central Com- hereby cancelled, and the Commissioned grades in on the Indian mittee for the study of malaria in India, held the 24th Subordinate Medical Department shall hereafter last, it was suggested that a change should be made in be as follows :? May I- the method of selecting officers to attend the class of instruc- Senior Assistant-Surgeon with the honorary rank of tion held at Amritsar from time to time. Lieutenant. 2. The present procedure is for this office to inform the II. Senior Assistant Surgeon with the honorary rank of Government of India of the date on which a class will be Captain. assembled, and for the Government of India to instruct local III. Senior Assistant-Surgeon with the honorary rank of Governments to nominate candidates. The names of these Major. candidates are submitted to the Government of India for Promotions to the grade of Senior Assistant-Surgeon with approval, and this office is consulted, unofficially, as to their the honorary rank of Lieutenant or Captain shall be made selection. This procedure, which was necessary in order according to the Regulations governing such promotion. that the officers selected for malaria investigation by local Promotion to the grade of Senior Assistant-Surgeon with Governments might be trained before taking up their duties, the honorary rank of Major shall not ordinarily be made has now served its purpose, and it is proposed to modify it so until after 15 years' service in the Commissioned grade. that any officer who is specially desirous of studying malaria Senior Assistant-Surgeons shall enjoy the precedence and may be given the opportunity of joining one of the classes. other advantages attaching to their honorary military rank. 3. I would, therefore, suggest that the procedure approved They shall have authority, under the medical officers, to in Home Department letter No.