David Boyes Smith

David Boyes Smith (19 November 1833 - 3 June 1889) was deputy surgeon general of the Indian Medical Service (IMS).

Early life David Boyes Smith was born on 19 November 1833. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he was president of the Royal Medical Society.

Career Smith joined the Indian Medical Service in November 1855 and served during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was civil surgeon of Delhi, Mussoorie, Patna, Dacca, and Howrah, and became the first Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Bengal in 1863.

In 1866 Smith founded The Indian Medical Gazette and afterwards was appointed principal of the Medical College, and First Physician in the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta. When he left India in 1885 he was elected professor of Military Medicine and Tropical Diseases, at the Army Medical School, Netley.

Death Smith died on 3 June 1889 in Woolston, Southampton.

Selected publications Report on the Drainage and Conservancy of Calcutta, Sanitary Commission for Bengal, 1869.