ARMY VETERINARY DEPARTMENT. 
these only tend to hasten the arrival of that day which is fast 
approaching*, when the Horse Guards will see the necessity of 
reform and amendment in the veterinary department of the 
army. 
Rank and Pay. 
I have already said much on the first of these subjects: it is 
my intention, on that account, to confine my present remarks 
chiefly to the latter of them. In commencement, I would fain 
take a view of the new regulations (which have just made their 
appearance) in the army medical department. 
Although the appointment.and the duties of a veterinary sur¬ 
geon are entirely distinct from those of the surgeon of the regi¬ 
ment, still both stand upon the “ staff’’ of the regiment, and 
each has a sort of relationship to the other, inasmuch as they 
certainly, both of them, are “ medical officers:” further than this 
I would not carry any sort of comparison between them in re¬ 
gard to their respective offices ; but I cannot resist this opportu¬ 
nity of shewing how very differently they are dealt with in respect 
to their rank, and in particular to their pay. 
By a recent “ warrant regulating the appointment and pay of 
army medical officers, dated July 29th, 1830,” the annexed regula¬ 
tions have, by his Majesty’s command, been approved and deter¬ 
mined on :— 
1. The medical officers of the army are, in future, to be distin¬ 
guished by the following ranks and commissions : viz. 
Assistant Surgeon, 
Regimental Surgeon, 
Staff Surgeon, 
Assistant Inspector of Hospitals, 
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, 
Inspector-General of Hospitals. 
2. No medical candidate w ho has not passed his examinations 
at the Royal College of Surgeons of London, Edinburgh, or 
Dublin, shall be eligible for this commission; and the assistant 
surgeon must have served on full pay five years before he shall 
be eligible for promotion to the rank of regimental surgeon, and 
seven years before he shall be eligible for the rank of staff 
surgeon. 
3. Regimental surgeons and staff surgeons must have served 
ten years in the army, on full pay, before they shall be eligible 
for the next step of rank. 
4. An assistant inspector of hospitals must have served three 
years at home or two years abroad , in this rank, before he shall 
be eligible for promotion. 
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