Cystic diseases of the chorion / by J. Foster Palmer.

  • Palmer, James Foster.
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: Cystic diseases of the chorion / by J. Foster Palmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / 551 (2) The employment lot professorships should be thrown open to the public for Indians, Europeans, as well as EM.S. officers, through general competition. In case of I.M.S. professors, compulsory retire- ment or transfer should /iot be compelled. / (3) All the medicijl colleges must have,board of directors, in which the members of independent practitioners should predominate. (4) Health officer slid deputy sanitary conjmissioners, as suggested by the Government of: India in its despatch to local Governments should be under direct control of the Government®- (5) The annual recruitment of I.M.S. /through the competitive examinations in England should be reduced/by one-third. The hitter portion to be opened for private medical /practitioners tn India by selection on the following conditions :— / (a) The highest Qualifications of British and Indian universities must have preferential claims. / (/>) I he regard J gr experience of some/years’ practice, either in the recognised hospitals dr privately, must be in forefront. (c) Hie pay and pension should he one-third less than the members of I.M.S. (d) The pay anc/1 grade of the services should be according to the number of years’ experience. (<?) Ihe age-lii^it for employment extended. (b) The employment of military as:listant surgeons in the civil work should be discontinued, or the standard of their education be raised. (7) The status pf civil assistant su but their pay should be increased. (8) Hospitals ii. principal towns sh petent private medical practitioners surgeons, physicians and specialists, etc. and retirement should be 'geons should be maintained, )Uld be thrown open to com- their honorary work as f 31 Such is the outline of the present movement on the part of our medical brethren in| India, and it is satisfactory to note that the government m India and the Secretary of State are in favour of improving the position of the medical profession in that land. The problem is one of considerable difficulty, but is of high importance and it ought to claim careful consideration, not only of statesmen, but alsool those medical men who possess a practical acquaintance with Indian medical affairs.