Regulations for Army medical services / War Office.

Date:
1894
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Credit: Regulations for Army medical services / War Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Section II. Hospital Establishments. Obtain supplies from base depot of stores. Fitted pan- niers, <fcc, in veserre. Packed in handy- boxes. Keserve vouchers. Books to be kept. 570. The medical officer in charge will procure, by requisition from the depot of medical stores at the base, a sufficient supply of medical and surgical material for the field hospitals, bearer companies, and medical equipment belonging to corps in the front. 571. He will also have in charge, fully fitted, the following:— Nos. 1 and 2 reserve medicine and material pan- niers, 6 pairs (Appendix 34). Nos. 1 and 2 special surgical panniers, 4 pairs (Ap- pendix 35). g Field medical companions, with water-bottles, 12 (Ap- pendix 28). Surgical haversacks and water-bottles, 24 (Appendix 29). Surgical bags for cavalry, 6 (Appendix 30). Field fracture boxes, 6 (Appendix 27). 572. The medicines and materials supplied to the ad- vanced depot will be packed in handy packages, and the medical officer in charge will avoid having any undue amount or accumulation of stores which would hamper a forward movement with the army. 573. He will preserve and file as vouchers copies of all indents for stores on the base, and all requisitions for sup- plies from the front. The only book he will be required to keep up is the Register of Medical Stores (Army Book 168)—a copy of which he will obtain from the depot of medical stores at the base—as well as a guard book, and a supply of forms and stationery. Ill-WITH THE FIELD ARMY-HOME DEFENCE. 574. A modified equipment is laid down for field hos- pitals and bearer companies for Home Defence. Detailed instructions with regard to these units are given in the Regulations for Mobilization for Home Defence, and in the Instructions for the Organization and Distribution of the Army Medical Stan, &c, on Mobilization for Home Defence.