ARMY VETERINARY DEPARTMENT. 
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5. A deputy inspector-general of hospitals must have served 
five years at home or three years abroad , in this rank, before he 
shall be eligible to the highest rank of inspector-general. 
6. The rates of daily pay for the before-mentioned ranks are 
to be, in future, regulated by the length of time which the officers 
of each class shall have served upon full pay, according to the 
annexed scale. 
RATES 
OF 
DAILY 
PAY. 
RANKS. 
Under 
10 1 After 10 ‘ After 20 
After 25 
years actu- years actu-'vears actu- 
vears actu- 
al 
Service, al ! 
Service. 
al Service. 
al J 
service. 
£ 
S. 
d. £ 
S. 
d. 
£ 
S. 
d. 
£ 
S. 
d. 
Assistant Surg-eon - - - - 
0 
7 
60 
10 
o 
o 
10 
0 
0 
10 
0 
Regimental Surgeon - - - - 
0 
13 
00 
1 
15 
0 
0 
19 
0 
1 
2 
0 
Staff Surgecn ------ 
0 
14 
0,0 
16 
0 
1 
0 
0 
1 
3 
0 
Assistant Inspector of Hospitals 
0 
19 
0 
1 
2 
0 
1 
4 
0 
Deputy Inspector Gen. of ditto 
1 
4 
0 
1 
8 
0 
1 
10 
0 
Inspector General of ditto - - 
1 
16 
0 
1 
18 
0 
2 
0 
0 
With the above scale let us compare the one by which the 
pay of the veterinary surgeon is regulated. 
Veterinary Surgeon - - - - 
Under 
3 years. 
After 
3 years. 
After 
10 years. 
After 
20 years. 
£ s. d. 
0 8 0 
£ s. d. 
0 10 0 
£ s. d. 
0 12 0 
£ s. d. 
0 15 0 
From which comparison we find that the veterinary surgeon 
commences his service with 8s. per diem, the assistant w ith 7s. 6d.; 
and in three years attains the same increase for which the other 
has to serve ten : but, alas! flattering as this appears, the pros¬ 
pect henceforth is sadly, sadly lowering and cheerless: ten long 
years he has to serve before he can claim the same rank w ith 
which the assistant surgeon commences his career, and before he 
can obtain l*2s. per diem; a period at which his cotemporary, the 
assistant surgeon, has, most probably, become promoted to the 
rank of surgeon, and in the receipt of 15s. per diem. Farther on, 
as will be seen by contrasting the two tables afore-described, the 
poor Vet. is left still further behind his more fortunate compeer; 
and so the rates of their respective pays, proportionate to their servi¬ 
tudes, will be found to diverge until there is no longer any sort 
of comparison betw een them —until, in fact, it becomes manifest 
to any one at all acquainted with military matters, that the 
veterinary surgeon is the worst remunerated officer in his Ma¬ 
jesty s service . 
An Army Veterinarian. 
