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The foßiewifg are tuT: print: pit unisrovenser
recoonneided by this Consuirs.iouers of Milieu
Eugoiry in their Fifth Report :
iikaAIUaMIENT OF THE ARMY MEDICAL D'

PAIITM I'.
l'crsions not to euraloyed as Assistants to
i4targeori arid Inspector;t:erieral, who, in addiL
to their office posy, lute the pay and emoluments
well as raids attached to service of a very !ittli.:rti
description.
The office of Agent to be discontinued as being
an unuecessary expense; also the additional
lowauce to the Deputy lnspectiars when abseat
duty, at the umes they hare as allowance of forage
for two horses, and when their sole duty is that of
inspection. The lialtepey List to be first resorted
to, tOr the supply of all ()Wooers of the floepitall
Staff. The present Half-pay List to be, therefore,
intrefully examined, for the purpose of ascertaining.
whether any cflicieot officers can be obtaiued from
whether all who may deelioe to gel mi. emir.
employ are justly entitled to retain their half-ixty
a reward for their past services.

lf throe be a necewa. ty for the continuance of an.
general hospitals at house, the seine should be
periutended by experienced military men.
There is no raison for confining; two military
superiuteudauti ut the York hospitals nor for ar
pointing field °Maws to this duty—nor for allowin6
them [onset( for homes. whilst the/teal/4y is entirely
epolined to one spot.
Tits General Hospital Spends, which has beret
carried on to tooth an ex,tent Abider the iniperiii-
teodeaccof the Assay' Medical Board, to he di*.
continued ; and the hospitals, both at home and
almost], whether they receive the sick of the army
generally, or erase of :a particular regiment only,
should be managed regimentally ; that is, on ate.
duced soak gf. officers and servants, and ou the
pried* of providing all'the articles of subsistence
on the spot, and of a speedy examination and sef
tlemeat of all accounts. The hospital* at Eliog
col Lymiugton, in which the sick belonging to the
fureigi corp. in our service are aecotausorieted, to
be also put on the regiuiesital footing; suggesting,
that, at all events, Dr. Veriturtne's proposal of re
'fluent.; the Eling Hospital to Lymington, and t'
placing, conseqoeutiy, all the Sick of the foreign
corps under one estublishment, was highly deserv-
ing of cousitleration..
The ReginseutalStaff, on the Home Service'
least, is larger than appears to be requisite; r
when the present mode of controuliog the Regi-
mental Hospital accounts shall be deemed to be
suffeekotly nucl.mstood, and acted on, if might be
couvenieut to leave this superintendence nod con-
trout with the Commanding Officer, assisted by the
Paymaster and Surgeon of each regiment ; when
, the interference of a superior Medical Authority
1 e would be confined to the *peuditure of medical
stores, and the profewiional tr.tot anent of the sick.
EXPENDIT VR E.

There has been great inattention to the public
interest in the quantity, assertmeot and prices of ar-
ticles furnished by the Apothecary Cienerall new
comae is therefore reetianended. The very large
quantities of hospital stores now in store to he used
before shiers, ore provided, and in future ncne to
be provided emit kronen that they are %anted...
• eritiert.e• meter -lertlfCTL sYsTrx. '-
The offices of Physician General, Surgeon Ger,
neral, Inspector General, and Comptroller of Army
Hospital Accounts, to be diseoutinsed. and the
sapenutendenee of the Medical Department of the
Anuy to be placed in a Board of Commissioners,
constituted of a Chairman and of two junior Meru-
ben. The Chairman should be well acquainted with
the detsels of miiitary service, both at home and
abroad, and the two junior Members should be
Medic:A Officers who have served in the capacities
of -Regimental and' Stitt Surgeons in different
climates and on active service.
The duties of the Board should be to recommend
to all the medical appointments, and to controul
the conduct of all the medical officers and hospital
servants belonging to the-army; to superintend
the whole expense of the department; to order the
medicines, materials, and hospital store's of all kinds;
and to controul the expenditure of them; and to
examine and check the tradesmen's bills, and to or-
der the payment of them.
Three Inspectors of Hospitals to be attached to
the Esrablishineat, and to supersede on the home
service the present Deputy Inspectors. These offi-
cers, like the Inspectors under theTraneportßoerd,
should not be emitined to particular districts, Ind
should be, generally, in a course of progress in vi-
siting the hospitals and depots of all kind belong-
ing.to the Ann, at home.
One of these Officers to he for Feotland, and the
three to be selected from aeorregst the most ge-
nerally experienced of the army medical staff,
would lie competent to such service of general in-
spection. The Commissioners and Inspectors, w hose
appointments are recommended, should be re-
strained from private practice ; end shou:il devote
their whole time to the dollies of their emplov- •
moats. The eateries now recommended are forniZl-
erl on this principle; and thoie proposed for the
medical part of the establishment are the same as
ere given to the seine description of officers in the
,
medical
department of the imiv.
It is proposed, therefore, to give to the First Com-
mtsiiioner our thousand two hundred poui:ds, and
to the two junior Members one thousand pounds
each, per annum :---to the Inspectors of Hospitals
five hundred pounds per annum each, and one
guinea per day subsistence, when *brut on duty
from London, and one shilling and six pence per
mile travelling expenses —to the hispeetee of
Alt.liciries, six hundred pounds per annum
and to the Secretary and Cashier, 8001. per son.;
but no hiking nor forage allowance to auv officers:
Nu new appointment to be made to the ranksof
Inspector, Phyecian, or principal Medical Officer ;
bat the rauk of Deputy Inspector to be the our:,
interveidug rank between the three Inspectors of
Hospita!s, reconunerided as part of the Ogee Estee
hlishment, and die Sorgeous to the Forces: and
the rank of Deputy Inspector to he a prow,
non from die rank offlteff Surgeon. lqo Surgeon
to he railed to the rank of Deputy Inspector. who
has not been on full pay, as Regimental or Staff
Surgeon, toe seven years at lead ; apd no addition
to he made to the member of this elan of Officeis,
without fat authority of the Cosimaader-inaCtief
and Secretary at War.

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