Mr. Brodrick ended his speech by declaring that he was
alive to the defects of the Army Medical Department, and that he means to remedy them. He believed that they might found, on the recommendations of the Commission and on other outside advice, an efficient medical system for the Army. We sincerely trust that an honest attempt will be made to return to the regimental system. A regiment wants its own doctor just as much as a parish. Why should not one doctor with the rank of Captain or Major, and one with the rank of Lieutenant, be attached to each regiment? From the regiments the ablest senior doctors might be moved to appointments in the Army Medical Staff Corps. A year in a medical hospital for training, ten years as a regimental doctor, and the rest of his service, if not then retired, in the Medical Staff Corps might produce a more expensive type of Army doctor, but it would certainly produce a more efficient one.
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