Abstract
In our Washington news of January 5, note was made of an order of the Commissioner of Pensions preventing clerks in the Bureau, who are physicians, from practicing medicine after office hours. In this branch of the government service, as well as in others, there are a number of graduated physicians who attend patients after office hours and are known as "Sundown Doctors." This item has been recurring frequently to our mind since it was published, and always coupled with the idea that if there were no evening colleges in Washington, D. C., there would be fewer "sundown" doctors in that city. A medical man may find practice unremunerative or uncongenial to him and may accept a place in the government service, particularly in the Bureau of Pensions, the Record and Pension Division of the War Department or the Office of the Surgeon-General of the Army, Navy or Marine-Hospital Service,
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