Regulations for the medical services of the army, 1932 / War Office.

Date:
1932
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Credit: Regulations for the medical services of the army, 1932 / War Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (D). INSTRUCTIONS: FOR THE: GUIDANCE OF THE NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER OF THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS, DETAILED FOR DUTY ON TRANSPORTS (Ref. para. 617.) 1. All hospital records must be neatly compiled and kept up to date, and in accordance with the instructions contained in these regulations. These records will be produced for inspection by the E.M.O., Southampton, at the end of each voyage. (a) Admission and discharge book, A.B. 27.—Instructions for the compilation of this book will be found on the first page of every A. and D. Book, and must be strictly complied with. (b) Medical transfer certificate, A.B. 172.*—A medical transfer certificate will be made out for every case to be transferred to a hospital ashore. The counterfoils will be properly filled in and will not be taken out of the book. (c) Requisition book, A.B. 30.—AIl requisitions will be made out in duplicate, the carbon copy being left in the book as a record. (d) Pack store book, A.B. 182.—Will be made out for every patient admitted to hospital, and will be signed by the patient and the N.C.O. in charge of the pack store. (e) Prescription book, A.B. 36.—Every prescription will be signed by the medical officer. The carbon copy of each prescription will be left in the book, and the original filed. (f ) Dangerous drugs prescription book, A.B. 39.—Will be kept in accordance with the instructions contained in paras. 127 and 128 of these Regulations. (g) Patients’ valuables and receipt book, A.B. 191.—A record of all valuables received, showing disposal, will be kept in this book. (h) Tveatment book.—One A.B. 39 will be used for the purpose of showing the treatment given to patients. (1) On ships on which a permanent R.A.M.C. trooping party is employed the above records will be kept on board until the end of the trooping season, when they will be handed over to the E.M.O., Southampton. * At ports other than Southampton. Transfer certificates are not required for convoys sent to Netley with A.F. A 36. (685) —13