THE SUCCESS OF THE MfvDlCAL FUND AT BOMBAY. 
73 
means of retirement to several gentlemen high in the service. 'Fhe Hon’ble Court has 
also made it obligatory, we learn, on those nou'' entering the service to join the fund. 
It is going on for one year and a half since the medical men here sent the Court of 
Directors a memorial, to grant similar privileges in proportion to. tlie number of medical 
men on this establishment, and although there was a rumour that the Court’s reply, com- 
plying with the prayer of the memorial, had reached India, it has never been published. We 
have Surgeons therefore on the list upwards of 30 years in the service, and if Government 
do not do something to ameliorate their condition,‘how is it possible for them to retire with- 
out being worn down by decrepitude and age I The pensions of these gentlemen were they 
to quit the service, is 190 £ per annum, from which is to be deducted the usual subscriptions 
for the Military and Orphan Funds. Now we merely put the question whether there is any 
reward to a professional man for such a length of service — for such sacrifices as he has made, 
such perils as he has encountered, and wliether something ought not to be done to bring 
into operation the fund to enable him to return once more to his native country, 
that his bones may be laid in the land of his fathers? The Hon’ble Court of Directors 
have no doubt long since received three separate memorials on three separate subjects 
from their medical servants, none of which has* yet been replied to. 'I'he consequence is, 
that our brethren are greatly depressed at such disheartening results. There is one 
act of the committee of management which we think has been most injudi- 
cious, that is, their proposition for a discontinuance of the monthly contributions. The 
larger the amount is, when the sanction of the Court of Directors ariives, the more retire- 
ments would be effected, and the fund would have been placed upon a permanent ba.sis ; 
the error may still be rectified, and we should be glad to see a proposition to that effect 
circulated for the votes of subscribers. We are however glad to say that the Members of 
the service generally are disposed to afford to the fund their support, which encourages 
us confidently to predict its complete success eventually. Some few Members have with- 
drawn in disappointment, but others have enrolled their names — that of Mr. Assistant 
Surgeon J. Bowron has been recently added, and the fund now embraces 2 Members of 
the Medical Board, 7 superintending Surgeons, 59 Surgeons, and 108 Assistant Surgeons — 
total 176. 
STAI'EVlENr FROVl THE YEAR ,1833 to 1836. 
Donations 
ment 
and Sui)scripti()iis recovered by Military Pay Depai tinent, state- 
dated 31st Au«ust 1833 . . . .. 
Sa Ra . 
. .5,989 
10 
1 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. Statement dated SOth November 1833 
3,106 
0 
5 
Do. 
Do. 
1833.. 
Do. by Civil Pay Depaitment, Slatemeut dated 1st November 
3.601 
1.5 
4 
Do. 
Do. 
by Military Pay Department, Staten)ent. dated ‘2lst February IS34 
5 622 
10 
7 
Do. 
Do. 
try Piesidency Pay Master, Statement dated l 7 lh March 1834.. 
J J 
1,73.3 
15 
m 
Do. 
Do. 
by Civil Pay Department, Siafement dated 17 th Apiil 1834. . 
,, 
4,6 i6 
2 
7 
Ho. 
Do. 
by Military Pay Department, statement dated iQibMay 1834.. 
10.090 
13 
3 
Do. 
Do. 
by Civil Pay Department, Statetnent dated 224 Augtist 1834. . . . 
J, 
2, ;93 
8 
10 
Do. 
Do. 
by Military Pay Departirtent, Statement dated 22d September 1834 
,, 
5,g30 
10 
6 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. Siatemeni dated 7ih Jatitiary I 835 .. 
5,687 
6 
8 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. Statemettt dated 5th March 1835 
91 
1/282 
12 
13 
Do. 
Do. 
by Revenue Pay Department, Statetnetit dated 3lst March 1835.. 
, J 
414 
12 
i 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. Statement dated 3!st March 1835 
9 f 
629 
9 
2 
Do. 
Do. 
by Military Pay Depat tnieitt. Statement dated Mill May 1835.... 
>9 
5,461 
10 
5 
Do. 
Do. 
by Civil Pay Departmetit, Statement dated 2611) Jutie 1835 
99 
1,066 
I 
I 
Do. 
Do. 
by Military Pay Department, Statetnetit dated lOtb J itly 1835.. 
6,660 
11 
3 
Do. 
Do. 
by Civil Pay DepatTment, Statement dated 93)d September 1335. 
1,378 
13 
10 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. Statement dated I3ili October 1835 
1,041 
7 
6 
Do 
Do. 
by Military Pay Department, statement dated 2d December 1835 
>> 
8 270 
12 
0 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. Statement dated lltli December l?35 
4,657 
13 
J 1 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. by Civil Pay Department, Statement dated l9lb March 1836. 
1,505 
8 
i 1 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. Statement dated 2lsl March 1830.. .. 
>■ 
1,501 
4 
2 
Total Sa. Us.. 
Deduct refunded to the widow of Snie^oii J, Allan 781 0 0 

82,707 
3 
3 
Do. 
Do. to Do. J. Eckford 784 o 0 
91 
1,568 
0 
0 
Sa [Is 
81,130 3 3 
