PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICE
An official communique appeared in the Australian papers on December 20 as follows:—The Minister of Defence has given approval to a scheme which provides for the organisation of the pharmaceutical service, of the CommonweaKn Military Forces on a somewhat similar basis to the dental service. The main principles of the scheme provide (or the appointment of a senior pharmacist in each military district, with the honorary rank of captain, whose duties it will be to select officers for positions at various'hospitals, both at home and abroad.''. A pharmacist with the rank of honorary lieutenant is to be allotted to each general hospital in the Commonwealth, with a proportionate number of dispensers, who will be given tho rank of sergeant-majors. ■ Instructions have now been issued to the State command'ants in regard to the matter, with a request that they should confer with tho State pharmaceutical societies regarding the nomination of pharmacists to fill the senior positions.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2674, 21 January 1916, Page 11
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157PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2674, 21 January 1916, Page 11
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