bers to aid in a more rational distribution of the newly graduated doctors.

There are many persons who prefer the routine work of the salaried man in institutions. Appointments of this kind are generally to be had by the young medical graduate; but the fact that after a few years those who accept salaried appointments leave them to enter private practice, may be taken as evidence that the latter offers the more durable satisfactions. It is well, however, to look over the ever-widening field of salaried positions.

The Field.

I. In private practice, city or country.

II. In the service of the National Government:
The army service.

The naval service.

The marine hospital and public health service.
The pension department.

The Indian service.

The Philippine service.

The Canal Zone and coast survey.

The pure food division of the department of agriculture.

III. In state and municipal service:

Public health department.

In departments of food and drug inspection.
In departments of vital statistics.

In sanitary work.

As milk inspectors and bacteriologists and chemists.

As lecturers on health topics.

In public hospital service.

In penal institutions.

In charitable institutions.

With the state militia.

As medical school inspectors.

As supervisors of physical training in schools. IV. In county service:

As health officers.

Pension examining surgeons.

Physicians to the poor.

Coroners.

V. In service of corporations. VI. In research work.

VII. In service of fraternal societies.

Some of these newer fields of work are rapidly being extended. Corporations which employ many men or are engaged in hazardous undertakings employ physicians and surgeons to administer to the injured as promptly as possible in order to minimize the sufferings of their employees; to keep down the cost of maintaining the sick and the disabled and to lessen their own liabilities for damages. The railroad and traction companies have surgeons at convenient points along their lines, and insurance companies have physicians in all communities in which they do business. Every large steamship has a physician on its staff of regular officers.

Fraternal societies employ physicians by the year to wait upon their members, who pay annual dues for this service whether they are sick or well. Large hotels have regular house physicians for their guests, and many of the wealthy families employ physicians by the year to travel with them wherever they go.

Private sanitariums employ large numbers of young medical graduates, and many experienced physicians

conduct health-building institutions as business enterprises. Organizations engaged in movements for promoting the public welfare employ medical men to present their several causes to the public, the field of medical journalism takes up the time of others, and lately enterprising publishers of daily papers have begun to employ physicians to conduct departments on personal efficiency.

CHAPTER X.

THE ARMY SERVICE.

The medical service of the army is divided into five corps: medical corps, the medical reserve corps, the dental corps, the hospital corps and the nurse corps.

The medical corps consists of a surgeon general, with the rank of a brigadier general, 14 colonels, 24 lieutenants with the rank, pay and allowances of officers of grades corresponding to those in the cavalry service. No person shall be appointed to this service until examined and approved by an army medical board.

The appointments are made to the junior grade, or grade of first lieutenant; and after three years of service as lieutenant, one becomes eligible for examination for promotion, to the grade of captain. All further promotion to higher grades is by seniority, although the applicant is subjected to examination to determine fitness for advancement.

A first lieutenant receives $2,000 per annum, or $166.66 monthly. At the end of three years he is promoted to a captaincy and receives $2,400 a year. In two years more he receives an increase of ten per cent., making $2,640 or $220 per month. After 10 years' service the pay would be $2,880 annually, or $240 per month.

The pay attached to the rank of major is $3,000 a year, which, with 10 per cent. added for each five years' service, becomes $3,600 after 10 years, $3,900 after 15

years and $4,000 after 20 years. The monthly pay of lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general is $375, $416.66 and $500 respectively. Officers, in addition to their pay proper, are furnished with a liberal allowance of quarters according to rank, either in kind, or, where no suitable government building is available, by commutation; fuel and light are also provided. When travelling on duty an officer receives mileage for the distance travelled, including the distance covered in joining his first station after appointment as first lieutenant; the amount allowed is usually sufficient to cover all expenses of journey. On change of assignment he is entitled to cost of transportation of professional books and papers and a reasonable amount of baggage. Mounted officers, including all officers of the medical corps, are provided with forage, stabling and transportation for horses owned and usually kept by them, not exceeding two for all ranks below that of brigadier. Horses and horse equipments are furnished by the government for all mounted officers below the grade of major. Groceries and other articles may be purchased from the post commissary at about wholesale prices. Instruments and appliances are liberally supplied for the use of medical officers. Well-selected professional libraries are supplied to each hospital, and standard modern publications on medical and surgical subjects are added from time to time; current issues of a number of representative medical journals are also furnished for their use. At each military post there is also a laboratory for those interested in such work; and medical officers are encouraged to carry on special lines of professional study which appeal to them.

The Army medical officers are given one month's