§ Dr. ADDISONasked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he will say how many Indian medical men hold appointments as professors or chief teachers in the teaching hospitals and medical colleges of India; and whether it is the intention of the Government to appoint suitable Indian medical men to such posts so far as opportunity may provide?
§ Mr. MONTAGUNone of the highest posts is at present actually held by an Indian, but the question of appointing Indians to two such posts is now under consideration. The answer to the second part of the question is in the affirmative. The decision of the Secretary of State in 1909 to allow no further increase in the civil side of the Indian Medical Service was intended to have among its results the appointment of Indian medical men to some professorial appointments of the first rank.