Sir Alfred Keogh, the Director-General of Army Medical Services, is
resigning his great office and returning on March 1st to his post as Director of the Imperial College of Science. He has accom- plished a wonderful work, and millions of sick and wounded men have reason to bless his name. With the skill and imagination of a born organiser, he has created the vast and complex service of doctors, ambulances, dressing-stations, hospitals, and sanitary experts which has kept the Army remarkably free from disease, has spared the wounded all needless pain, and has reduced the mortality from wounds or sickness to a degree that would have seemed incredibly low to our fathers. The modest Army Medical Service which existed at the outbreak of the war has expanded in Sir Alfred Keogh's hands to gigantic proportions and has steadily increaaed in efficiency. Its. records will be the retiring Director. General's monument.
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