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in the Indian Red Cross office as Director of the Maternity and Child
Welfare Bureau. The remainder of the members were employed as
executive officers in charge of hospitals in various parts of India.

      7. Indianisation of the Service is being carried out. At the end of
1936 the Cadre consisted of:—

The money allotted from the Silver Jubilee Fund enable the Committee
to employ one extra Indian W. M. S. officer and 3 temporary medical
officers.

     8. The cadre of the Training Reserve was increased to 14. Two mem-
bers were deputed to England in the autumn for post-graduate study—one
to work for the Conjoint of the English Colleges and the other for the
Primary F. R. C. S. The two officers who were deputed to the United
Kingdom in 1935 returned to India in 1936, one having obtained the
Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrology (Cambridge) and the other
the Membership of the College of Physicians (London). Both were given
appointments as temporary medical officers on their return—the former
as Assistant Radiologist in the Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi, and
the latter as Senior House Surgeon at the Dufferin Hospital, Calcutta.

     9. One member of the Training Reserve was awarded a Fellowship by
the Rockefeller Foundation in 1935 for the study of Public Health Work in
the United States of America and England. On return in 1936 this officer
was given a temporary appointment at the All-India Institute of Hygiene,
Calcutta, to carry out some important research under the Indian Research
Fund Association on "Maternal Mortality in Calcutta". These officers
will be considered for vacancies as they arise in the Senior Service.

4. BRITISH EMPIRE LEPROSY RELIEF ASSOCIATION (INDIAN
COUNCIL).

     The new light thrown upon the problem of leprosy by the establishment
of the fact that early cases were more readily amenable to treatment,
coupled with the more effective and practical methods of treatment result-
ing from recent researches of science, brought about a great mobilization
of effort for the eradication of leprosy, and, in 1924, the British Empire
Leprosy Relief Association was founded in London under the august patron-
age of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales. Leprosy was not a forgotten sub-
ject, but with the inauguration of the Association the subject came into
greater prominence, and resources for dealing with it were augmented.

     2. The Association at once decided to make its campaign against
leprosy Empire-wide and, as a result of this move, the Indian Council of
the Association was inaugurated in January 1925, by the Marquis of Reading,
the then Viceroy and Governor-General of India.

     3. The Indian Council was not established a moment too soon. Accord-
ing to census figures which expert investigations have shown to be far short
of the actual numbers, India contained by far the largest number of lepers
in the Empire and perhaps in the world. The disease was so wide-spread

Contributed by Sardar Bahadur Balwant Singh Puri, O. B E.