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The names of the Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons attending the School,

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Mr. Chapple.

Mr. Teevan.

Mr. Harman.

Mr. Abbott.

Mr. Atkinson.

Seventeen of the candidates were gazetted on the 21st of November, 1862, the commissions being antedated to the 31st of March, 1862, and in one instance to 13th February, 1855, namely Dr. E. Becher, who had been an Acting Assistant Surgeon continuously from that date.

Names of Candidates, in the order in which they were Gazetted :

1. Emil Becher, M.D.

2. John Ross Murray, M.D.

3. Thomas Parker Smith, M.B. 4. John Duston.

5. John Elliott.

6. Acheson George Bartley, M.D.
7. Henry Frank Hensman."

8. William James Tyrrell.

9. John Barlow Hannah, M.D.

10. William Pile, M.B.
11. Thomas Cecil Morgan.
12. Richard Patrick Ferguson.
13. Thomas Dodd Milburn.

14. Alexander Ferrier Churchill,
M.D.

15. John Stannard M'Adam.
16. Edward Nicholson.

17. Richard Jones Owen, M.D.

The remaining Candidates, viz. Messrs. W. N. Duggan and R. W. Hooper, volunteered for service on the West Coast of Africa.

CIRCULARS, GENERAL ORDERS, MEMORANDA, &c.,

HAVING REFERENCE TO THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, ISSUED DURING 1861.

Circular Memorandum.

Army Medical Department, 7th February, 1861.

The Return of Deaths, &c., on Form 197 B, furnished to the War Office, in accordance with War Office Circular, No. 605, is invariably to be sent to this Office, with the Annual Return of Sick of each corps.

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Sanitary, Circular.

J. B. GIBSON, Director-General.

Western Australia.
New South Wales.
Ionian Islands.
Ceylon.

Mauritius.

St. Helena.

Halifax.
Bermudas.

Bahamas.

Honduras.

Jamaica.
Barbadoes.

Cape of Good Hope.

Malta.

Canada.

Gibraltar.

Army Medical Department, 11th Feb., 1861.
Sir, The Secretary of State for War having intimated that the "Scale of
will be hereafter substituted
Victualling for Troops from England to India

for the Admiralty Scale, on board all vessels that may be engaged by the
Government for the conveyance of troops, also in Her Majesty's troop ships,
I have the honour to notify the same for your information.

I have, &c.,

(Signed) J. B. GIBSON, Director-General.

The Principal Medical Officer, &c.

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Medical.

Memorandum.

The Director-General begs to make known to the Assistant Surgeons of Her Majesty's Army, that the examination they are required to pass before they can be promoted to the rank of Surgeon, in accordance with the Royal Warrant of the 1st October, 1858, will, except in special cases, take place once a year only.*

Those Assistant Surgeons who defer their examination, must distinctly understand that they will be passed over, and will not, when eventually promoted, regain their position, should the requirements of the service render the advancement of their juniors (who have been found qualified) necessary.

All applications from Assistant Surgeons who have completed five years full pay service, and are desirous of being examined, must be sent to the Director-General on or before the 31st of December each year, as the papers will be prepared and distributed about the 1st of April following. Army Medical Department, 22nd February, 1861.

E. H.

Circular Memorandum.

(Addressed to General and other Officers commanding Districts and Stations at Home and Abroad.) General No. 111.

Horse Guards, S.W., 2nd March, 1861.

Staff Clerks. 1-(1861).

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief hereby notifies that the Secretary of State for War has consented to the admission into Military Hospitals of Pensioners employed as Clerks in the District Military Offices, whenever Hospital accommodation can be made available for them without prejudice to the Service, and in cases where the Senior Medical Officer at the Station or District may deem it necessary. They will, however, be placed under the usual Hospital Stoppages during the periods of their being under treatment in Hospital.

E. H.

General No. 119.

By Command,

JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, Adjutant-General.
Circular Memorandum.

(Addressed to the Army at Home and Abroad.)
Horse Guards, S.W., 18th March, 1861.
Instruction of Musketry.
2-(1861.)

A reduction in the number of Assistant Surgeons of regiments having been determined on, the General Commanding-in-Chief desires that the attendance at ball practice of Medical Officers attached to regiments and depôt battalions may, after such reduction, be dispensed with at all stations at home and abroad, except the East and West Indies, Ceylon, and China; and as the Secretary of State for War has sanctioned an increase of Staff Assistant Surgeons for duty at rifle practice at

Gibraltar,

Malta,

Aldershot,
Shorncliffe,
Dover,

Portsmouth,
Plymouth,
Dublin,

and

The Curragh,

*The examination papers for Assistant Surgeons serving in India will be forwarded from this Office in October, and for those serving at other Foreign Stations and at Home in April of each year.

Such number only of the Senior Assistant Surgeons can be examined as will suffice to keep up the passed list to 50.

The Topographical or Medico-statistical Reports required by the Regulations to be transmitted by Medical Officers with their answers, must be Original Reports specially written for this purpose. Copies of, or extracts from, Annual Reports will not be accepted.

These examinations are to be conducted by Principal Medical Officers of Districts or Stations, in accordance with the instructions contained in the Medical Regulations, p. 244.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge further desires, that General Officers Commanding will take care that Staff Assistant Surgeons only are employed on this duty, as soon as the additional Officers of that rank arrive at the respective stations.

E. H.

By Command,

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The General Commanding-in-Chief desires that paragraph 1, page 5, and paragraph 28, page 34, of the Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army (Edition 1859), may be altered as follows, viz. :—

Staff Officers of regiments, and Officers of the Civil Departments attached to the Army, are, in regard to choice of quarters, to be classed with the several ranks specified below; but this is not to give Regimental Staff Officers, nor Officers of the Civil Departments, any claim to military command, nor to salutes from ships of war, forts, or guards.

All guards and sentinels are to pay the same compliments to the Officers of the Royal Navy and Marines, when in uniform, as are directed to be paid to Officers of the Army; sentinels, only, will pay similar honours to Officers of the Civil Departments attached to the Army, according to their relative ranks.

By Command of His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief,
JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, Adjutant-General.

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Whereas it has been represented to Us that it is expedient to amend that part of the 16th Clause of Our Royal Warrant of the 1st October, 1858, which assigns to Staff or Regimental Surgeons the relative rank of Major, according to the date of their Commissions; Our will and pleasure is, that Staff or Regimental Assistant Surgeons, who may be promoted to the rank of Staff or Regimental Surgeon on or after the date of this Our Royal Warrant, shall rank as Majors, but juniors of that rank; and that Staff or Regimental Surgeons, who were commissioned as such before the date hereof, shall continue to rank as Majors according to the date of their Commissions.

Given at Our Court of St. James's, this 28th day of March, 1861, in the twenty-fourth year of Our reign.

Circular No. 682.

12593

10

Victoria R.,

By Her Majesty's Command,

HERBERT.

Whereas it has been found expedient to revise the regulations under which an allowance is granted for the hire and maintenance of black male servants to Officers of the General, Garrison, and Departmental Staff, and to Regimental Officers of Our Army, serving at stations within the tropics: It is Our Will and Pleasure, that instead of the provisions contained in pages 61, 62, and 63, of Our Royal Warrant of the 1st July, 1848, which are hereby cancelled, those contained in this Our Royal Warrant, to be administered and interpreted by our Secretary of State for War, shall, from the date hereof, be adopted.

23rd April, 1861.

1. The number of black male personal servants and grooms for the hire and maintenance of whom Officers on certain stations within the tropics are entitled to an allowance from Government, shall be regulated as follows:

*Cancelled by Royal Warrant (Circular 808), dated March 7th, 1863.

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2. Although the number of grooms specified above has been fixed with reference to the maximum number of horses for which each class or rank of Officer may draw forage, the issue of the commuted allowance, in lieu of grooms, is to be regulated by the number of horses actually and necessarily kept for the performance of the Officer's public duty, according to the following scale:One groom for one or two horses. Two grooms for three or four horses. Three grooms for five or six horses. Four grooms for seven or eight horses.

If the duties of an Officer, for whom no provision is made for a groom, require him to keep a horse, and entitle him to forage at the public expense, such Officer may draw the allowance for a groom in addition to that for his personal servant. But in every such case, reference should be given on the pay list to the authority under which forage is drawn.

3. Officers having Brevet rank are not entitled to draw this allowance according to the Brevet rank, unless they be in the actual discharge of higher duties than those which attach to their Regimental or Staff commissions, nor unless those duties have been performed for a period exceeding one month.

4. If, in consequence of the death or temporary absence of an Officer from the station, an inferior Officer succeed to the duties of a superior commission or appointment, he shall, on making the declaration prescribed by Article 6, be permitted to draw the allowance for the number of black male personal servants and grooms allotted to the superior commission or appointment, whilst he continues to execute its duties, provided the period shall exceed one month, and provided also that the Officer thus acting be in the next degree of rank or situation to the dead or absent Officer, as, if he be more than one degree below that rank or situation, he shall draw the allowance only according to the rank or situation next above his own.

5. The rate of allowance for each black male servant in the Windward and Leeward Island Command, in Jamaica, and at Honduras, shall be 1s. 6d., and at the stations on the Western Coast of Africa, 1s. a day.

6. The object of this allowance being to prevent the employment of European soldiers in hot climates upon any duties not strictly military, Officers commanding corps will accordingly be held responsible that European soldiers be not employed in any way as servants; and every Officer drawing the said allow

ance for one personal servant and no groom, will sign the declaration in support of his claim, according to Form No. 1, annexed hereto. Those drawing it for more than one servant or groom will be required to furnish a declaration, according to Form No. 2.

Rations of provisions are not to be issued from the public stores to the black male servants of Officers unless their masters be employed in the field against an enemy; and while rations are so issued, the value thereof, as fixed by the Officer commanding on the station, shall be deducted from the allowance granted by this regulation.

7. This allowance shall not be granted to Officers of corps composed wholly of black soldiers, or partly of black soldiers and partly of Europeans, whether the Officers be employed on the Staff or not, provided any black soldiers of their corps be present on the same station; and no Officer in a corps composed wholly or in part of black soldiers, shall be permitted to employ an European soldier as a servant.

Given at Our Court at St. James's, this 23rd day of April, 1861, in the By Her Majesty's Command, twenty-fourth year of Our reign.

Form of Declaration, No. 1.

HERBERT.

I hereby declare, upon honour, that I have not had attending me, in the capacity of a servant, during any part of the period for which I now claim servants' allowance, any soldier or labourer, or any other person employed and paid by the public, and that no ration of provisions has been drawn for the servant for whom the allowance is claimed.

Dated at

Name
Rank

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Form of Declaration, No. 2.

I hereby declare, upon honour, that I have employed the number of personal servants and grooms for whom I claim the allowance above specified, and that no rations have been drawn for them; nor have I had attending me, in the capacity of a servant or groom, during any part of the time, any soldier or labourer, or any other person employed and paid by the public, and I further declare that I have kept for the performance of my public duties the number of horses specified, and have drawn forage for them at the public [To be quoted]. expense, under the authority of

Dated at

Name Rank this

day of

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In the case of Officers who are allowed to employ soldiers for the care of their horses, the following addition is to be made to declaration No. 2, viz. :" Except [here insert the number] soldier or soldiers, employed by me for the care of my horse or horses (as the case may be), and for whom a corresponding deduction has been made from the number of grooms, for whom I should otherwise have been entitled to receive the pecuniary allowance." Circular No. 683.

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Home and Foreign.

War Office, 20th May, 1861. Sir, -With reference to Section XVI., page 59, of the Medical Regulations of the 7th of October, 1859, prescribing a more liberal and much more varied class of diets for use in Military Hospitals, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to inform you, with a view to remove a misunderstanding which appears to exist regarding the extent to which extras may be given with any of the diets in the scale, that it was in no way intended, by the concluding paragraph of Article 2 of the said Section, to sanction the issue of extra articles of food to patients in hospital, in addition to the diet prescribed by the Surgeon, as will appear obvious on referring to the Diet Forms printed at pages 222-225 of the Regulations before mentioned.

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