The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-12 00:00:00

THE ASSISTANT SURGEONS' PETITION.

Dr. Andrew Smith, Director-General of Hospital
In the Crimea. has received a reply from Lord Paay, le
the petition in which 116 surgeons lately 'toed varies
@deviates and asked for redress. Lord Penmen says he
cannot admit that the rate of military pay to these grade.
men is too low, but the present regulation meninx' tell roe
of service before the higher rate of 10s. is attained, is "a fit
subject for reconsideration hereafter." Lord Peaseretw
not draw from the more rapid promotion of the exetedies
than of the medical officers any ground for the osselesis
that it implies an nodeservedly low estimate of the no.
lions of the latter; but "with referer.ce to the complelat M
the inferior character of some of the duties that now fill 1)
the junior medical officers, the memorialists should be la.
formed that this ground of complaint is under ecosiderelim.
Lord Penman, cannot, hoe ever, relax the principle white
requires that the amistaat-surgeons in military hospitals be
prepared to do any duties, even those of dispenser, dna"
or clerk, which may be required of them by their peohsimsl
superiors. With reference to leave for professional improve.
meat and other purposes, Lord Pismire can only remark
that when leave can be properly granted it is not withheld.
Leave of absence most always depend upon the calls ef
duty, to which pleasure or study must molly yielL
Lord Penman will not be iadisposed to consider the can
of the medical officers in respect to the length of sleeks
which gives a claim for retirement, but upon this poise, si
well se the general propositions following, bis lordship tea
give at present no other reply than that they shall naive
sir consideration in any change of the medical deparnesst
that may take place. The complaint of the memorieliatsea
the introduction of civil practiuooers to posts of aethanty
and emolument created by the necessities of the war,
is, In
the opinion of Lord Panmure, entirely uncalled for. De
ranks of the Military Medical Department were totally
unable to supply the extensive hospitals treated is the Nat
These establishments ware only temporary. It would hate
been unwise and improvident to have loud on them ea ia•
crime of permanent establishments, to become a bodes
the couatry in after years. The comparatively high pay el
the civil practitioners appointed to these hospitals, man d
whom gave up valuable private practices at the of
inanity, is based entirely upon the temporary esters.'
their services, and can tarnish no ground for complamt that
the regular department has been overlooked."

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