THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.

56

LONDON LETTER. SCHOOL OF TROPICAL

THE

This school is

being started

MEDICINE.

under somewhat

unpleasant circumstances. I alluded in a former letter to sundry indications of differences and disputes which threatened the prosperity of the scheme at its inception. The nature and cause of these have now been fully revealed. The honorSeamen's Hospital, ary staff of the Dreadnought which is now located at Greenwich, have pub-

lished a correspondence with the Committee of the Seamen's Hospital Society, which renders it in this matter been very clear that they have not treated with the consideration and courtesy duo The small to their position and long service.

the Albert Docks, where it is proposed locate and organise the new school, is a receiving branch of the parent institution at It appears that the proposal to Greenwich.

hospital at to

centre the school at the Albert Dock Branch was entertained and sanctioned by the Commit-

consulting

tee without

the

Dreadnought Staff,

announced that the members of the staff would give instruction without obtaining their consent, and that it was decided to retain that it

was

cases at the Branch Hospital for purof clinical teaching to the detriment of poses the parent institution, of which the treatment of this class of diseases has hitherto been a

tropical

special

It is quite function and distinctive feature. clear from the correspondence that the staff of the Greenwich Hospital have good ground of complaint, and the replies made to their reasonable and

respectful representations have not It is further means, satisfactory. that the scheme has been rather rushed,

been, by any evident

and that the questions of location and organization have not been sufficiently deliberated on. seems to

There tion

to

brought

be

strong and growing conviceffect, and that the influences bear on Mr. Chamberlain were too a

this to

much of the hole-and-corner kind. This is much to be regretted ; for the necessity and

utility

project stand beyond question; and it a pity that its realization should not have

of the seems

been essayed in a more open and wise manner. Meantime the formation of a Committee has

been announced for the purpose of " drawing up a constitution for the school and defining the curriculum."

[Feb.

1899.

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