Mr. KELLYasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is yet able to state the amount of money annually spent by the Government of India on the entire medical education of Anglo-Indian and Eurasian students for the military assistant-surgeon grade; whether the-re are similar officers to look after the troops in this country; and on what grounds is the existence of that branch justified in India?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe answer to both the first and second questions is in the negative.
Mr. KELLYasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the senior assistants in the chief civil medical institutions at Madras are military assistant surgeons; whether the entire cost of their medical education has been defrayed by the Government of Madras; whether he 117W would state the reasons why they have been invariably preferred to Indian civil doctors who have better qualifications and who have been trained at their own expense; and when does he propose to make a statement on the reform of the medical service in India?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe answer to the first question is yes; the second I have already answered. As regards the last, I cannot yet say when it will be possible to make any further statement on the subject.