The Minor Medical Services

to either of the others, or wherever they were required,(1) such transfers have, for nearly a century past, rarely been made. The names of the officers in these three Services were combined in one list, for the first time, in the Indian Army List of 1st October 1906. But they still remain on separate lists for promotion, lo these three Services, thirteen years ago, was added a fourth, the junior Service, in which all the members are on one list for promotion. This Service was created by G. G. 0. No 260 of 6th March 1896, with effect from 1st April 1896. There are now, therefore, four different branches of the I. M S, and presumably these four branches will continue to exist for 20 to 25 years more, until the last members of the senior Services have died or retired; after which only one Imperial Medical Service will remain. But by that time there will probably be a large Provincial Medical Service entirely recruited in India. The East India Company, however, besides the large Indian Medical Service, used to maintain several smaller Medical Services, viz :? The St Helena Medical Service. The West Coast (of Sumatra) Medical Service. The Prince of Wales Island Medical Service. rlhe China Medical Service. There was also, of course, the very numerous Marine Medical Service, comprising the Medical officers of the Company's Indiamen. These officers were not united into a service, but each