INDIAN ARMY VETERINARY SURGEON. 
99 
£ 
s. 
d. 
Mess bill 
13 
6 
0 
Breakfast 
1 
14 
0 
House rent 
3 
10 
0 
Servants 
5 
8 
0 
Keep of two horses 
1 
4 
0 
Subscription to funds (compulsory) 
1 
4 
0 
Total 
26 
6 
0 
My pay, &c., has been— 
Pay and allowances 
15 
9 
4 
Horse allowance 
. 6 
0 
0 
House ,, 
5 
0 
0 
Palkee „ 
3 
0 
0 
Extra batta 
4 11 
4 
Total 
34 
0 
8 
Deduct expenses 
26 
6 
0 
Balance . . 7 14 8 
Thus there remains a little over £7 a month to purchase 
clothes, uniform, horses, &c., &c., and to make a purse to 
pay one’s passage home to England, and out again (£300 at 
least), when the time comes round to take leave for a year or 
two. India is a vile hole to live in—a most trying climate 
for seven months of the year—no English places of amuse¬ 
ment at any time—everything dull, dreary, and monotonous. 
There ought to be some inducement to make men spend 
twenty or thirty of the best years of their lives in it. At 
present there is none for veterinary surgeons . 
Taking all things into consideration, the pay at home is 
literally better than out here; the position is unquestionably 
so, and an Englishman enjoys life there, instead of moping, 
vegetating, and cursing his fate, as in India. i( Punch’s” 
advice—I don’t agree with him, though—to people about to 
marry, is about the best which can be given to any one think¬ 
ing of coming to this country — (t Don’t.” Stay at home on 
£200 a year, rather than come out here on £500. 
The “ Warrant” is a dead letter in India. For three and 
a half years we have been waiting, waiting patiently for some 
improvement in our pay and position. We have been under 
the impression that " something was being done for us ”— 
that “ our case was under consideration.” Now, however, 
we are told by a very high authority out here that nothing 
has been done, nothing is being done, and nothing will be 
done, unless we make some stir ourselves. This suspense 
and disappointment is sickening. 
Yours faithfully. 
To the Editors of * The Veterinarian 
