HC Deb 21 June 1898 vol 59 cc949-50
CAPTAIN NORTON

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India when it is proposed to amend the Indian Medical Regulations so as to ensure that officers of the Indian medical service who have no previous military experience, or, at all events, have not any lengthened period of experience in military duties, shall be made to pass a longer period for military medical training than two months in the office of a principal medical officer prior to being selected for promotion to administrative grade; whether any changes, and, if so what changes in this respect have been proposed or recommended; and when they will be promulgated?

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA

I have not received from the Indian Government any proposal to amend the Indian Medical Regulations in regard to the training of medical officers selected for promotion to the administrative grade.