Sunday Holidays

. Sir, Will you please find .1 little space for my proposal 111 your valuable paper and oblige. It is rather curious that the medical department should have no holiday unlike other departments, and it is sometimes a matter which causes great inconvenience to its employs. Some years back the work of the Indian dispensaries was light as most of the people were used to the eastern methods of treatment, and consequently very few persons attended the dispensaries, so the medical servants had some rest and could do their daily work with ease. At present I think most of the dispensaries have such a great deal of work that the medical officers in charge of dispensaries and their subordinates get tired after a continuous hard work from morning till noon and sometimes till afternoon. It would be advisable if a request be made to Government for Sunday holidays in all the dispensaries. If Sunday be not allowed for any reason, some other day of the week may be selected. The exception of urgent cases may be made even that day as they have to be seen at any untimely hour of the day or night. I hope all the medical officers who are in charge of Indian dispensaries will please consider over the matter and take action 011 the subject if they should not think it unnecessa ry. The editors of all the medical papers are requested to kindly publish the subject for general opinion, for which I shall feel highly grateful to them. Yours, etc., AHMAD HASAN, Sub-AsstSurgeon. Kaisarganj, Dist. Rahkaioh .a 21 st August 1913. ;