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Madras 1863. Promotion of three Senior Apothecaries to Honorary Assistant Surgeons, without, however, any additional allowance by virtue of the honorary rank. This is contrasted unfavourably with the situation in Bengal, where Apothecaries had been promoted to the rank and position of Commissioned Officers. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2xm1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA465 Madras Quarterly Journal of Medical Science 1863 Volume 6, page 465]
In November 1870 “It is notified that at the age of fifty-five an officer of the Subordinate Medical Department shall be required to produce a medical certificate of his fitness for further service. This certificate shall, in accordance with a rule laid down for commissioned medical officers, extend to a further period of service of three years, at the expiration of which service retirement shall be compulsory in all cases".<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=iGFDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1039#v=snippet&q=%22Subordinate%20medical%20department%22&f=false Allen’s Indian Mail, July-December 1870, page 1039] Google Books</ref>
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