Regulations for Army medical services / War Office.

Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    SECTION III.— GENERAL REGULATIONS. L-THE INVALIDING OF SOLDIERS. 614. The invaliding of soldiers at home and abroad will invaliding be carried out in accordance with the instructions con- accordance tained in the Queen's Peculations, and none but soldiers with disqualified by actual disability—without regard to the Queen's. length of their service—are to be brought forward for Resulatloa=i discharge as unlit for service. 615. When a soldier is considered unfit for service, a Detailed detailed medical history of his case, on Army Form B 179, history! will be prepared by the medical officer in whose care he may be. 616. If the soldier is serving at the headquarters of a Soldier district, the medical officer in charge of the station hospital headg at will inform the man's commanding officer of the proposal quarters; to bring him forward for invaliding, and will submit to the Principal Medical Officer the detailed medical history (Army Form B 179) and a medical report (Army Form B 248), together with the man's medical history sheet (Army Form B 178). In order to reply accurately to questions 8, 11, and 12 on Army Form B 179, the medical officer will obtain from the commanding officer for inspection the man's company defaulter sheet, as well as the proceedings of the court of enquiry, if such had been held to investi- gate the cause of any injury which the soldier may have received. The Principal Medical Officer will carefully sift and verify the statements in the detailed medical history, and will inspect the proposed invalid. If he concur in the opinion of the medical officer in charge, he will submit to the General Officer Commanding that the soldier be examined by a medical board. 617. If the soldier is serving at an out-station, the case at an will be similarly represented to the man's commanding out-station, officer and to the Principal Medical Officer, and if the latter concur in the opinion of the medical officer in charge, he will cause steps to be taken for the removal of the proposed invalid to the headquarters of the district. If, after a period of personal observation, he is then satisfied that the soldier should be invalided, he will apply for a medical board. When from any cause it is not advisable to move the proposed invalid to headquarters, the Principal Medical (m.r.) h