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12. FORFEITURE OF CLAIM TO SPECIAL PENSION.—With regard to Deputy
Inspectors General, who may be compelled by ill-health
to take leave to England beyond six months, during their
five years' tenure of office, it has been decided that if an Officer is not
re-appointed for a second tour of duty, his claim to the extra pension will be
forfeited.
13. Half-pay pension.—Officers of the Indian Medical Department
compelled to leave the service on account of ill-health, and entitled to half-
pay pension, are granted the half-pay of their relative rank as follows :—
Rank.
Relative Rank.
Rates of Half Pay.
Per Day. Per Annum.
s. d.
£
s. d.
Surgeon-Major ... . . .
. . . Lieutenant-Colonel...
... 11 0
200 15 0
Surgeon
...
...
... Major...
...
...
...
9 6
173 7 6
Assistant Surgeon ...
... Captain
...
...
..
7 6
127 15 0
Ditto, under 6 years' service Lieutenant ...
...
...
4 0
73 0 0
"
3
,,
”
2 6
45 17 6
Half pay pension cannot be granted in India. An Officer must try the
effect of a temperate climate before he can be considered a fit subject for the
benefit of the half-pay pension rules.
14. STEP OF HONORARY RANK.—A Medical Officer, retiring after a service
of 25 years and upwards, may, if recommended for the same by the head of
his department, receive a step of honorary rank, but without any consequent
increase of pay.
15. LEAVE COUNTING AS SERVICE FOR PENSION.—The scale for Medical
Officers of privileged furlough and leave of absence, to be allowed to count for
the retiring pension, will be as follows :—
1 year 8 months in 17 and under 20 years' service.
2 years 0 „
in 20
" 25
"
3 „
0
" in 25
„
30
"
4 „
0 „
in 30 and upwards.
16. Wound pensions.—Medical Officers shall be entitled to all the
allowances granted to Her Majesty's Indian Military forces on account of
wounds and injuries received in action, as combatant Officers holding the same
relative ranks.
17. Pensions of Widows and Children. —The widows and children of
Medical Officers entering the service after 7th November
1864, will be granted pensions not less than those to which
they would be entitled under the provisions of the Royal
Warrant of June 15th, 1855,
G. O. G. G., No.
902 of 1865.
Des. to Gov. of
India No. 340 of 1864,
in G. O. G., No. 9 of
1865.
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18. REPORT OF MARRIAGE.—Every Medical Officer entering the service
under the new regulations, shall, in order to facilitate the decision upon the
claim of his family, after his decease, to the benefit of this regulation, notify
his marriage within six months of its taking place, to the India Office accord-
ing to the annexed form :—
(Date) — — — — — — — — — — —
Report of an Officer's Marriage, made for the Purpose of its being recorded at the India Office
with a view to facilitate the Settlement of any Claim that may be made on behalf of the
Officer's Family in the event of his Death.
Officer's Name
Officer's Age at the time of Marriage
Regiment to which he belongs........................
Maiden Names of the Lady, at full length .......
The Lady's Age at the time of Marriage.......
Date of Marriage ...............
....
Place where the ceremony was performed.....
Names of the Officiating Clergyman and sub-
scribing Witnesses.........................
Signature of the Officer———————
His Place of Residence, if he is not serving on Full Pay
19. Lord Clive's Fund. —Pensions are granted to the widows of officers
of the Indian Medical Department who were in the service before 7th Novem-
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ber 1864, according to the regulations of the fund, formerly known as " Lord
Clives" fund, viz. :—
Per diem.
Per annum.
s. d.
£ .
s. d.
Widows of Colonels and Officers of
equivalent relative rank
...
6 3
114 1 3
Lieut.-Colonel and ditto
. . .
5 0
9
1
5 0
Major Do.
...
3 9
68 8 9
Captain Do.
. . .
2 6
45 12 6
20. PROPERTY QUALIFICATION.—The Widows of Medical Officers must
produce such evidence as shall seem reasonable that their husbands, under
whom they derive their claim, did not die possessed of real and personal estate
to the amounts as given below, and further that they had not property settled
upon them by their husbands, which, together with the property left by the
husband, would exclude them from the benefit of the fund :—
£ .
Medical Officers of the relative rank of Colonel ...
... 4,000
" Lieut.-Colonel
... 3,000
" Major ...
... 2,500
" Captain ...
... 2,000
H o n o r a r y A s s i s t a n t S u r g e o n . . .
1,000
21. Pensions granted to widows shall continue during their widowhood,
and no longer.
22. Pensions of widows, when payable in India, are converted into Rupees
at two shillings and a half-pence the rupee.
23. DECLARATION FOR ADMISSION.—The following form of declaration is to
be adopted in applying for admission to Lord Clive's Fund.
I—do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am the widow of
—late a—in Her Majesty's—service, and that I have
not contracted marriage with any other person since the death of my afore-
said husband ; and I further solemnly and sincerely declare that my said hus-
band was not at the time of his death possessed of, or entitled to, either by
himself, or by any person in trust for him, real and personal estate to the
amount in value together of—including any settlement that may have
been made at the time of marriage ; and that my said husband did not to my
knowledge at any period in any way dispose of his estate, or any part thereof,
in order that I might be enabled to claim the regulated amount of pension
from Lord Clive's Fund ; and I also declare that I do not myself possess or
enjoy any property, or any such interest in any property, as either alone or
together with the real and personal estate of which my late husband died,
seized or possessed, will amount to the aforesaid sum of—; and I make
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this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by
virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the Session of Parliament
of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the
Fourth, entitled " an Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parlia-
" ment, entitled an Act for the more effectual abolition of oaths and Affirma-
" tions taken and made in various departments of the State, and to substitute
" declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary
" and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits, and to make other provisions for
the
" abolition of unnecessary Oaths."
Declared at—this—day of—18.
Magistrate for the—of—
G. O. G. G., No.
255 of 1866.
24. Good service Pension. —Officers of the Indian Medical Department
are considered eligible for good service pensions. In
these cases, in accordance with the principle observed
with respect to officers succeeding to the Colonel's allowance, a Medical
Officer in receipt of his pension will give it up on retirement from the service
on the pension of £700 a year, or on coming into the receipt of the special
additional pensions of £350 and £250, allotted respectively for the grades of
Inspector General and Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, on retirement,
The following are the regulations regarding good service pensions.
a.—Fifty good service pensions, of £100 per annum, will be distributed
among the Officers of the several Staff corps, and of Her Majesty's Indian
Army at the three Presidencies.
b.—Officers of all ranks will be considered eligible for the pensions on
the recommendations of the Government of the Presidency to which they
belong, supported by that of the Government of India ; but, except under very
special circumstances, the grant will be restricted to Officers above the rank
of Lieutenant.
c.—The good service pension will be given up by an Officer on resigna-
tion of the service ; but an Officer placed on half pay, or retiring upon full
or half pay pension, will retain the good service pension in addition to such
half pay or pension.
d.—Ordinarily the good service pension will be conferred upon Officers of
the effective list ; but Officers who may have been placed on half pay, or
who may have retired from the service on full or half pay pension, will also be
considered eligible for them.
e.—On the nomination of any Officer to a good service pension being
sanctioned by the Secretary of State for India in Council, a notification to
that effect will be published in the Gazette of India, specifying the Military
services of the Officer.
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Resoln. of Govt. of
India, Fin. Dept. No.
717, 1865.
25. PENSION TO MEDICAL OFFICERS EMPLOYED IN PRIVATE HOSPITALS.—When
the services of a Medical Officer are lent to a charitable
Dispensary, which is wholly maintained by private contri-
butions, the period of such employment shall count as
qualifying for pension, under the rules of the service to which the Officer
belongs.
Subordinate Medical Department.
26. APOTHECARY CLASS.—The furlough pay, retiring, invalid, and wound
pensions of the several grades will be as follows :—
GRADES.
Annual Furlough
Pay and Retir-
ing Pension.
Monthly Invalid
Pension.
Annual Wound
Pension.*
£.
Rs.
£.
Honorary Assistant Surgeon
...
150
175
70
Senior Apothecary
...
100
150
50
1st Class do
...
80
100
35
2nd Class do
...
60
85
35
Assistant do
... ...
40
25
These retiring and invalid pensions are inclusive of any pension, which,
as Warrant Officers, the recipients may be entitled to from Lord Clive's
Fund.
27. SERVICE REQUIRED FOR INVALID PENSION.—If invalided in India mem-
bers of the Apothecary class must have served fifteen years, exclusive of the
period passed as Hospital Apprentice, to entitle them to the benefits of the
invalid pension, unless they are invalided in consequence of wounds or injuries
received, or disorders contracted on service, or in the execution of their duties
when their individual cases will be specially considered.
WHEN INVALIDED IN ENGLAND.—If invalided in England they will receive
invalid pensions in accordance with G. G. O. No. 549 of 5th June 1868,
at the following rates, should they have served fifteen and less than thirty
years :—
" Honorary Assistant Surgeon ...£120 per annum.
" Senior Apothecary ...£80 "
" First Class do ... 64 "
"Second Class do ...£48 "
" Should their services be under fifteen years, they will receive the Eng-
* Wounded Warrant Officers who may be permitted to continue on the effective estab
-lishment will be entitled to draw their wound pensions in addition to the pay and allow-
ances or their rank.
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lish Invalid Pension of the next lower grade, a Second Class Apothecary in
such case being allowed £36
.
G. O No. 4,213 of
1868, M. D.
28. THREE YEARS' SERVICE IN THE GRADE.—No Medical Warrant Officer,
unless disabled on actual service, will be entitled to the
benefits of the grade he may hold at the time of being
invalided, unless he shall have served in that grade for three years complete ;
should he have served a shorter period, he will receive the pension only of
the next inferior grade from which he was promoted; his united service in
the two grades, amounting together to full three years.
29. Widows' pensions.—The following pensions are granted to the
widows of the Apothecary Class of the Medical Subordinate Department :
—
(This regulation has effect from 1st January 1866.)
Annual in
Europe.
Monthly in
India.
R.
R S .
Widows of Honorary Assistant Surgeons
...
3 0
30
Do. Senior Apothecary
...
...
26
26
Do. Apothecaries
...
...
20
20
Do. Assistant Apothecaries
...
...
15
15
30.
Hospital Assistants.—The scale of pensions for Hospital Assist-
ants is,—
One-third of the average pay of preceding five years after fifteen years'
service, and one-half after twenty-five years' service as Hospital Assistants, if
invalided by a competent Medical Committee, counting from the date of their
passing for the grade of Hospital Assistant.
After thirty years' service, one-half of the average pay of preceding five
years, without the necessity of producing a medical certificate.
If invalided on account of wounds or injuries received on service, they
will be allowed,—
One-third of the average pay of preceding five years, if under fifteen
years' service ; one-half, if above fifteen years' service as Hospital Assistants;
and the fall amount after twenty-five years' service.
31. RETIREMENT TO PRACTISE AS NATIVE DOCTORS.—Hospital Assistants in
the service before 5th June 1868 shall be entitled to their discharge after
twenty-five years' actual service, provided their regiments be not at the time
on field service, or preparing for it ; receiving a pension equal to one-half of the
pay of their rank, with a view to their practising as native doctors ; but un
-less a discharge be wished for on this ground, substantiated to the satisfaction
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of the Inspector General, Indian Medical Department, they will be allowed
pension only under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
32. PASSED APPRENTICES AND PUPILS RECKON SERVICE FOR PENSION.—Me-
dical Apprentices and Pupils, who have been pronounced by the Medical College
to be fully qualified for employment as Assistant Apothecaries and Hospital
Assistants respectively, are permitted to reckon as service for the retiring
pension, all time subsequently passed by them in the performance of the duties
of those employments.
SECTION X
SANITARY REGULATIONS.
I.—Military Cantonment Rules.
I I . — T r o o p s i n G a r r i s o n .
I I I . — M a r c h i n g o f T r o o p s .
IV.—Field Service.
V.—(a.) Cholera epidemics.
(b.) Investigation of cholera.
VI.—Jails and Prisoners.
VII.—Pairs and festivals.
VIII.—Municipal Regulations.
IX.—Conservancy.
X.—Water supply.
XI.—Contagious diseases
XII.—Lock Hospitals.
XIII.—Vaccine Department.
I.—Military Cantonment Rules.
1. Power to frame sanitary regulations under Act I. of 1866.
— T h e G o v e r n m e n t h a v e t h e p o w e r u n d e r A c t I . o f 1 8 6 6 t o f r a m e r u l e s a n d
regulations for Military Cantonments, not inconsistent with the provisions
of the Act, for amongst other things;
( a.) The definition and prohibition of public nuisances.
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Clause 19.
(b. ) For the maintenance generally of Cantonments in a proper sani-
tary condition ; for the prevention and cure of disease ; for the management
and regulation of * * * conservancy and drainage ;
for the regulation and inspection of public and private
necessaries, urinals, cess-pools, drains and places in which filth and rubbish are
deposited ; of slaughter-houses, public markets, burial and burning grounds,
and of all offensive or dangerous trades and occupations.
(c) For inspecting and controlling houses of ill fame, and for prevent-
ing the spread of venereal disease.
(d) For the supervision and regulation of public wells, tanks, springs,
or other sources from which water is, or may be, made available for public
use. * *
(e) For the registration of births, marriages and deaths, and for making
and recording observations and facts important for the public health and
interests. * * * *
(f.) For the imposition of penalties on persons convicted of the breach
of any sanctioned rule or regulation.
Clause 18.
2. RULES TO BE SANCTIONED BY GOVERNOR GENERAL.—All rules and regu-
lations made or altered under clause 17, of Act I. of 1866,
require the confirmation of the Governor General of India
in Council before they can become law. A copy of every rule so confirmed,
in English, and in the Vernacular language chiefly in use, shall be hung up
in some conspicuous part of the office of the Cantonment Magistrate, or in
such other place as the Government, or the Commanding Officer may direct.
Clause 26.
3. DISEASED WOMEN OUTSIDE or CANTONMENTS.—When necessary for the
protection of the public health, places outside the limits
of Military Cantonments may be brought under the
operation of the Cantonment Act, so far as regulations for the prevention of
venereal diseases are concerned.
4. Rules for the Madras Presidency. —The following rules and regu-
lations under clauses 4—11, of Section XIX., of Act I. of 1866, having been
confirmed by the Governor General of India in Council, are held to be applica-
ble to all Cantonments in the Madras Presidency.*
*NOTE.—The rules have been declared applicable to Saint Thomas' Mount, Poonamallee,
Wellington, Palaveram. In Bellary, Cannanore, and Trichinopoly their operation is sus-
pended, temporarily. The stations of Kamptee, Secunderabad, Bangalore, Rangoon,
Tonghoo, Thyetmyo, and Cuttack are brought under similar rules framed under Bengal
Act XXII. of 1864. Other Military Cantonments come under regulations of Act X. of 186
5.—(See " Municipal Regulations.")
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5. ALTERATION OF RULES.—Additional rules and regulations may be
made from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the Act. When-
ever it may be necessary to amend or rescind a rule, or to make a new rule, a
report is to be made to the Commander-in-Chief, who, if he think fit, will make
such reference to Government as the matter may appear to require.
* * * * * *
(CHAPTER II. OF REGULATIONS FOR MILITARY CANTONMENTS.)
The Cantonment Committee and Cantonment Fund.
I. Cantonment Committee.—There will be appointed in every Military
Cantonment in which the Commander-in-Chief shall so order, a Committee
called the Cantonment Committee. The constitution of the Committee will
ordinarily be as follows, but the Commander-in-Chief, with the concurrence
of Government, will make any alterations therein which may for any reason
seem desirable :—
The Officer Commanding the Cantonment... President.
The Sanitary Officer or Officers of the Cantonment
The Executive Engineer
...
... Members ..
The Magistrate of the District
...
...
The Cantonment Magistrate
...
... Member and Secretary.
II. The Commander-in-Chief will appoint any other persons, not more
than three in number, to be members of the Committee.
III. CANTONMENT MAGISTRATE TO BE SECRETARY.—Unless it shall be
otherwise specially ordered, the Cantonment Magistrate will be Secretary to
the Cantonment Committee, and will keep all accounts and records.
IV. NATURE OF DUTIES OF THE COMMITTEE, AND OF COMMANDING OFFICER
.—The Cantonment Committee will be mainly a consultative body, appointed
to advise and assist the Officer Commanding the Cantonment i.n those por-
tions of his duties which are connected with matters that affect the public
health, safety, and convenience.
V. The Officer Commanding the Cantonment is responsible, so far as
his authority extends, for insisting upon the due enforcement of the present
rules and regulations. * * * *
VI. DISTRIBUTION OF DUTIES AMONG MEMBERS.—The executive duties of
the Committee shall be, as far as possible, distributed among the members,
so that one member shall be specially responsible for certain duties. Any
Member may inspect any place, other than the interior of private houses,
within the limits of the Cantonment.
VII. DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL AND OTHERS TO BE MEMBERS OF ALL
COMMITTEES.—The Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals will be a Member of
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every Cantonment Committee formed under these rules in his Division or Dis-
trict. The Sanitary Commissioner for Madras, the Inspector General of the
Indian Medica1 Department, and the Inspector General of the British Medical
Service, will also be ex-officio Members of all such Committees within the
Madras Presidency.
VIII. DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL OP HOSPITALS.—If the Principal
Medical Officer of the Cantonment be the Deputy Inspector General of Hos-
pitals, residing at the head quarters station of the Division or District, he
will, unless a separate Sanitary Officer be appointed, or it be otherwise
ordered, act as Sanitary Officer and Member of the Cantonment Committee.
In the event of his leaving the head quarters station, the next senior Medical
Officer will act as Sanitary Officer and member of the Committee, during the
absence of the Deputy Inspector General.
* * * * *
IX. OFFICER COMMANDING MAY EXERCISE THE POWERS OF THE CANTON-
MENT COMMITTEE.—In any Cantonment in which no Committee is appointed,
the Commander-in-Chief, with the concurrence of the local Government,
may authorize the Officer Commanding the Cantonment to perform all or
any of the functions, and to exercise all or any of the authority given under
these rules to the Cantonment Committee.
X. Cantonment Fund. —There will be formed in every Cantonment a
Fund called the " Cantonment Fund." * * * *
XI PURPOSES FOR WHICH THE CANTONMENT FUND MAY BE EXPENDED.—The
purposes for which the Cantonment Fund may be expended are the follow-
ing :—
1st.—For the payment of Police, and of the Officers and establishments
required for the maintenance of the Cantonment in a proper sanitary condi-
tion or for other local purposes ; for ensuring the enforcement of all rules
and regulations laid down by lawful authority regarding matters that affect
the public health, safety, convenience, and decency, and for observing and
recording facts of sanitary importance and interest.
2nd.—For the construction, promotion and maintenance of works of
public utility and convenience, such as works of drainage, paving, public
necessaries and urinals, water-supply, planting trees, public slaughter-houses,
markets, hospitals, and dispensaries, and public roads not being roads
ordinarily made or maintained at the expense of the Government.
XII. NO EXPENDITURE TO BE INCURRED FOR OTHER PURPOSES.—Except for
the purposes stated in the last preceding rule, no expenditure shall be in-
curred from the Cantonment Fund without the sanction of the Commander-
in-Chief and of Government.
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* * * *
XXXVII. Returns to be furnished. —The Cantonment Committee will
furn
ish such periodical Returns and Reports as may, from time to time, be
prescribed.
XXXVIII. ALL MATTERS OF SANITARY IMPORTANCE TO BE LAID BEFORE THE
COMMITTEE.—It will be the duty of the Officer Commanding the Cantonment,
of the prinicipal Medical Officer, and of the other Members of the Committee,
as well as of all other persons residing in the Cantonment, to bring to the
immediate notice of the Cantonment Committee every matter of importance
affecting the health of the troops or of the public, which may come to their
notice.
XXXIX. WEEKLY REPORTS.—The Weekly Reports regarding matters
which affect the public health, which the Commanding Officers of Regiments
are required to submit to the Officer Commanding the Cantonment, will be
regularly laid before the Committee.
XL. WEEKLY REPORTS TO BE SUBMITTED BY OTHER OFFICERS.—The following
Officers will submit a weekly Report to the Officer Commanding the Can-
tonment, to the effect that the parts of the Cantonment over which they have
control, and for which they are responsible, have been inspected, and are kept
in a proper sanitary state, or, when necessary, they will state the defects the
removal of which is required ; these reports will be regularly laid before the
Cantonment Committee :
—
The Chaplains, regarding the state of the enclosures of the Church or
Chapel and of the burial grounds.
The Executive Engineer and Barrack Master, regarding all public
establishments and works under their charge.
The Commissariat Officer, regarding the Bakery, Slaughter-house,
Cattle-yards, and other establishments under his charge.
The Cantonment Magistrate, regarding the general conservancy and
sanitary administration of the Sudder Bazaar, and of all parts of the Canton-
ment for the maintenance of which in a proper sanitary condition he is
responsible.
XLI. MONTHLY REPORT TO BE FURNISHED BY COMMITTEE.—The Canton-
ment Committee will report monthly on the sanitary state of the Cantonment
generally, for the information of the Officer Commanding the Division or
District.
CHAPTER III.
Offences affecting the Public health, Safety, Convenience, and Decency, punishable
under the Rules and Regulations of the Cantonment.
I. Penalty for breach of Rules and Regulations.—Any person, who,
within the limits or the Cantonment, shall commit a breach of any of the