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:The stewards and their assistants are charged with all the details relating to the food, clothing, and similar interior economy of military hospitals. Both classes aid the surgeon in the preparation of official reports and statements."
'''Change of Duties'''<br> There is a British Library catalogue entry '''IOR/F/4/661/18358 Mar 1821''' which appears to be in respect of Bengal: Appointment of J.T. Hodgson as [[Veterinary Surgeon ]] to the Governor General's Body Guard - he is to select and train eight Assistant Apothecaries as Veterinary Surgeons for the Light Cavalry Regiments.
<br>''The New Annual Bengal Directory and Calcutta Kalendar'', available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, for the year 1823 has a listing on page 76 of the Army List, computer page 221, of "Assistant Apothecaries, Veterinary Students" at Ballygunge, Calcutta . For the year 1824 three of these students are shown as Sub -Assistant Veterinary Surgeons.
<br>An advice from Fort William dated April 12, 1827 advised that following the decision to appoint regularly educated Veterinary Surgeons, Sub -assistant Veterinary Surgeons were to be given the choice of taking their discharge, or of entering the subordinate branch of the medical staff.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=PYcEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR111 ''Naval and Military Magazine Volume 3''], 1828, page cxi of "Naval and Military Miscellany"</ref>
*This [http://books.google.com/books?id=d22WUEmG49IC&pg=PA46-IA5 link]<ref>
[http://books.google.com/books?id=d22WUEmG49IC&pg=PA46-IA5 ''Poor relations: the making of a Eurasian community in British India, 1773-1833''], page 46, image 5, by Christopher Hawes 1996 Google Books</ref> shows a drawing of an Apothecary, First Class, c 1840
