The Times of Saturday, May 12th, contains a letter signed
by Mr. Howard Marshall, Civil Medical Officer to the Cirencester Voluntary Aid Hospital, which contains one of the most amazing allegations ever made in respect of a Public Department. So amazing is it, indeed, that we feel there must be some mistake. According to Mr. Howard Marshall, the War Office, in June, 1915, decided to authorize the payment on application of a certain remu- neration to those devoted men, the civilian medical officers, who attend to the medical and surgical wants of our wounded soldiers in so many V.A.D. and Military Auxiliary Hospitals. The War Office are, it is alleged, ready to pay if required 3d. per bed per diem for hospitals with direct cases, and 2d. per bed per diem for hospitals receiving transfer eases from other hospitals.
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