Show Dentists in inthe the Army To the Editor of The Herald Can you ou tell me whether or not the senate committee on the new army anny bill recommended for passage the clause providing for dental surgeons If it does are they to be employed as con contract contract contract tract dental surgeons under the terms and conditions applicable to army con eon contract contract tract surgeons Please inform me as asto asto asto to the terms and conditions applicable to surgeons In The Herald if convenient ent eat and anU oblige a subscriber L H II 31 M The army reorganization blI bH as passed by the house and reported by bythe bythe bythe the committee on military affairs of the senate provides for the appoint appointment appoIntment ment by b the surgeon general with the approval of the secretary of war of a number of or dental surgeons not to ex cx exceed coed eed one to each 1000 men in the army and not more than thirty in all These are to be employed as contract dental surgeons under und r the rules applicable to contract army surgeons and must be graduates of some standard medical or dental college trained in the several branches of dentistry and shall pass pas passa pasa a satisfactory professional examina examination tion Three of or these shall receive their appointment with a view to their fit fitness fitness ness for tor assignment under the three direction direction tion of oC the surgeon general to con conducting ducting examinations and supervising the operations of the others for which they shall receive an additional com compensation compensation of OO 60 a month Dental eel col lege tege graduates now employed in the hospital corps of the th army arm who have been detailed for a period of not less than twelve months and whose hose re potts DOtis show that their services have been satisfactory may be he appointed contract dental surgeons without ex cx examination examination |