Abstract

AT the Mansion House on Wednesday in last week, the Lord Mayor gave a banquet to the Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons and Royal College of Physicians and leading members of the medical profession. This was the first occasion upon which the hospitality of the Mansion House has been extended to the medical profession as such, and a very large and distinguished company was present in response to the Lord Mayor's invitation. Lord Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, was one of the guests, and in responding to a toast he announced that the Government proposed to make several concessions with regard to the rank of medical officers in the Army. It is proposed to form—out of the Army Medical Staff and the Medical Staff Corps—a Royal Army Medical Corps, the officers of which will bear the same military titles as other officers of the Army. These concessions have been received with great satisfaction, by the medical profession, and they will doubtless lead to a marked increase in the number of candidates for the Army, medical service. We give below a few extracts, from some of the speeches made at the banquet.

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