The Colonial Medical Service

A meeting was held under tlie presidency of Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., K.C.S.I., in the Bast Conference Hall of the Imperial Institute, on Wednesday, March 2nd, 1898, and Mr. James Cantlie gave an address on the Organisation of the Colonial Medical Department. The scheme which was proposed for consideration was based upon that contained in a paper on the organisation of the Colonial Medical Service hy Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel Evatt, published in the British Medical Journal of September 26th, 189(5. The main points in this scheme were that all appointments for the service should be made after a competitive examination to be held in London at stated intervals; that successful candidates should undergo a special training in tropical medicine before taking up their duties; that fixed titles, periods of service, and pay proportional to such periods of service should be arranged, and that a Director-General should be appointed to control the Colonial Medical Service. It was suggested that a medical officer on appointment and for two years after joining, should have the grade and title of Assistant-Surgeon, for the next ten years that of Surgeon, from twelve to twenty years of service that of Staff-Surgeon, after twenty years that of Senior Surgeon, after twenty-five