History of the Indian Medical Service

10. Honours and Rewards.? It lias sometimes been alleged that the number of Honours and Decorations bestowed upon officers of the I. M. S. is small. The following table shows that members of the service, on the active list or retired, have been the recipients of close upon 200 decorations. The larger share, nearly two-thirds of the whole, have gone to Bengal ; but that service has always been stronger in numbers than the other two together. The new I. M. S., composed of men entering the service in 1897 and subsequent years, has done well in earning three D. S O.s, all by war service, in the first few years of its existence. For such decorations usually go to the senior men It is curious that the Bombay service, always much smaller in numbers than Madras, has gained nine decorations. A Bombay officer was the first to earn the Y.-C ; another held the only G. C. B., yet bestowed upon the I. M. S. It is probable that some Honours and Orders have been omitted, especially in the Madras and Bombay services; certainly all those entered in the table have been given and received. Various other distinctions, Honorary Physicianships and Surgeoncies to the King, Honorary degrees of Universities Fellowships of the Royal Society, Baronetcies, Knighthoods, and Good Service Pensions, are also entered 111