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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    Statistics of Sickness. Section II. VI.—WEEKLY RETURNS IN THE FIELD. (Service Abroad and Home Defence), 608. The medical officer in charge of each hospital Fromaii whatever may be its designation, in connection with an hoapA^iw army in the field, will furnish to the Principal Medical MedfcSl Officer of the field force, or of the Army Corps in the Officer of the case of Home Defence, a weekly return, on Army Form army* A 29, commencing on the day the troops take the field, and continuing until the operations are terminated, or the force broken up. 609. The weekly returns to be rendered to the Principal Channel* Medical Officer of the field force, or of the Army Corps in 553? the case of the Home Defence, will be forwarded through forwarded, the following channels :— From field hospitals, through the Principal Medical Officers of divisions, or when with corps troops, direct. From hospitals on the lines of communication direct (Service Abroad). From general hospitals, or hospital ships, through the Principal Medical Officer at the base (Service Abroad). VII. SPECIAL RETURNS IN THE FIELD. (Service Abroad and Home Defence). 610. As soon as possible after an action, medical officers Nominal in charge of field hospitals will furnish nominal rolls, in ™ou'n°dea. duplicate, on Army Form A 6, of officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who had received wounds or injuries in battle, specifying as tersely and accurately as possible the kind of wound or injury and the deoree of severitv. One copy will be sent through the Principal Medical Officer of the field force, or of the Army Corps in the case of the Home Defence, to the General Officer Commanding, and the other to the Principal Medical Officer of the division to which the hospital is iattached, for transmission to the Director-General In the case of field hospitals with the .corps troops both copies will be sent direct to the Principal Medical Officei ■ of the force. . „ , ., , -n 611 Medical officers in charge of all hospitals will, Classified when called upon by the Principal MedxcaL Officer furnish a descriptive numerical classified return of wounds „onH. and injuries, together with the results of operations per- formed, on Army Form A 7.