MEDICAL CORPS WANTED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8700, 20 December 1899, Page 3

MEDICAL CORPS WANTED.

tg&K-: ; -■ ' : ; ,.. : . '■■' ■' Stonbt, Dec. 19. K"vX message has beon received from Mr f:'Cß»robJßrjaui asking the colony to provide iphalf ' : i i field .. medical corps for service in ,Tae request is the result of Isunduo pressure on the medical department mil tfa¥ War Office;;,. ?#'iLater.rT%Che request for a medical corps ShM;bjW'nioqecled to. the army upon whioh the S ; dpe»|ioSs'in;Boutb Africa are casting a [!ltmo?i^idn Will becomo greater and fl'gwwii^ith' the .progress of the war %(wr(ieV?& London correspondent) is the i/BijiyalArmyfiiedfoatCorps. At the pre* ?' sent time there are 44 doctors at the front, J^iaMd;with those on the way to the theatre Iflof war, wejjhalbbaye Buffioient.for our own K' : Be]Bds,'. provide^ we. do not undertake the J ..icare'-:;pt.' too many wounded Boers. It however, that many of the Vmedidal.meu who will be employed in South'. Africa, ought to be elsewhere, and -^'thetiji order to bring the'S. A. Medical : Corps. up to the requisite strength we shall '- have denuded our troops in other parts of the world of medical attendance. At the present time the total strength of the department is 20 per cent, lower than it was 30 years ago, and .fully 10 per cent. . below the absolute minimum laid down by f Sir Thomas Crawford, Director-General of .:tha A.M.D., a dozeu years Ago, This state of affairs arises from War Office parsimony, the salary offered to young - doctors beiug quite insufficient to attract first rate men.]