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of ordinary merit can pass the B. A. or B. Sc. Examination in 4 years after the Entrance Examination. A candidate after passing the B. A. Examination can secure a Sub Deputy Collectorship ; and by gradual promotion he has every chance of being promoted to the rank of an E. A. Commissioner or a Deputy Magistrate, drawing a big salary of Rs. 6oo or Rs. 8oo'a month, before he retires on pension. But a passed candidate from any medical school in India though he has undergone a tedious and laborious training of four years after passing the University F. A. or . Entrance. Examination, can never aspire to a post carrying a salary of more than Rs. 7o a month at the time of pension. Man like Rai Shaheb Dr. Kailash Chandra Das whose research in the matter of Kalajar in Assam is well known to the Assam Administratién has retired on awfull pension of Rs. 35 only. Is it not a gross injustice to the poor Hospital Assistant class 7 . It is therefore quite clear that the prospects and emoluments of the “Hospital Assistants” are too meagre for their arduous, laborious and responsible training in the T medical science. It might be urged that the Hospitik Assistants, having the priv[ege of private practice earn a | our humble opinion it is merely a delusion in the case of most of them. There might be an exceptionably fortunate Hospital Assistant here and there, who has got a modest private practice, and in all Assam the number of such lucky persons can be counted on one's own fingers. In the case of the rest, private practice is absolutely nil. Hospital Assistants are always stationed chiefly in peor outlying districts or subdivi-- sions in independent charges, where the inhabitants are too poor to pay for their medicines and much less for medical advice. And in towns to which they are fortunately posted such practice as exists is absorbed by members of the superior services. And if an official enquiry were to be held in | this matter, our contentions, we are sure, would be fully borne out. In the Punjab compounders and ward orderlies can be appointed as Hospital Assistants after some years of good service, 3 years of medical training in the medical school and passing the final Hospital Assistant Class Examination. In the like manner some kind of arrangement may be made for Hospital Assistants whereby they could be appointed as Assistant Surgeons. We beg to submit. below our humble opinions and suggestions . to the Honorable the Chief Corm