Civil Surgeons in India

duties are heavyr, and who think that a little management might give relief;?we would say, " Go and live with one," "Where a Civil Surgeon, in a large station and in full practice, has the charge of a jail, (administrative and professional,) of a lunatic asylum, and dispensary, besides the charge of outposts, no one, -who has not witnessed it, can tell the amount of " work" which he has to perform. The local civil officers? the Inspector-General of Prisons, the Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, the local Sanatory Commissioner?one or more expect the usual periodical reports (some of them in duplicate), and information must be furnished, whenever called for, at any time, by any of the above-mentioned authorities. Civil Surgeons are the back-bone of the service. They supply the pabulum for the reports which represent the health and sickness and sanatory requirements of the country; but their energies are over-taxed ; and they are crying aloud for help ! We understand that an application has been submitted to the Bengal Government for a writer to be allowed to the office of