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Abstract

AMONG the list of honours conferred by the King on officers of the Army, the Royal Army Medical Service has reason to be gratified by the number bestowed1 upon its members. Sir Alfred Keogh, the Director-General, is promoted to be G.C.B., sharing this distinction with Sir William Robertson. Sir Alfred. Keogh was a former Director-General of the Army Medical Service, and subsequent to his retirement, became rector of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, but soon after the outbreak of war was recalled to his former post. He found the Royal Army Medical Service confronted with a task of the first magnitude, and its staff numerically wholly inadequate to cope with the work before it. Within a few months he made a new force of it; numbers of the younger medical practitioners were enrolled in its ranks, and senior; members of the medical profession—physicians, surgeons, hygienists, and specialists in all branches—were attached to it in, a consultative capacity. For two: years this virtually new force has worked harmoniously; and efficiently. Never before have the wounded been, so promptly and so adequately cared for, while the prevention, of the numerous diseases which are so liable to follow on war and the train Oif an army has never been more successifully accomplished.