and since సినిe ख्रिशक्-गन्रf१ ।। [ (R, సిసి 64 arrangement may be made for Hospital Assistants whereby they could be appointed as Assistant Surgeons. The second disability is about the designation ; ‘Hospital Assistant” which might be construed to mean anything a compounder, a ward-servant, or a dresser. I pray, therefore, that you may be kindly pleased to alter the designation “Hospital Assistant” to one that may give us some professional status. If I may be permitted to make suggestions, I may mention any one of the following :-Assistant Physicians, Deputy Physicians, or Extra Assistant Sur geons. 顧 , The third disability is about our exclusion from the charge of dispensaries entitled to hold “post mortem” examinations. We are taught in the Medical School to make an autopsy like Assistant Surgeons. I understand that some years ago a Hospital Assistant was guilty of some misconduct relating to a “post mortem* case, then all Hospital Assistants have been deprived of this privilege. . With all deference I submit that it seems unfair to condemn all for the misbehaviour of one or two. The fourth grievance is that no compounders are maintained in any of the Canal Hospitals, and in most of the Jail Hospitals as well as in the Lunatic Asylum, consequently, the Hospital Assis. tants at such places have to do the compounding in addition to their own duties. I pray, therefore, that either provision be made for the employment of compounders at such institutions, or else an allowance sanctioned for those Hospital Assistants in charge of such hospitals. It might be urged that the Hospital Assistants having the privilege of private practice must be earning a good deal besides their pay. But, I humbly submit. that it is simply a delusion in the case of most of us. There might be an exceptionally fortunate Hospital Assistant here and there, who has got a modest private prac. tice. But in all Punjab the number of such lucky persons might be hardly counted on one hand’s fingers. In the case of the rest private practice is absolutely nil. Hospital Assistants are chiefly stationed in poor outlying districts 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, I am sure, would be fully borne out. (1) In conclusion, . I pray,
