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 III. General Regulations. IXL-SUPPLY OF SURGICAL INSTRU- MENTS, APPLIANCES, AND MA- TERIALS, AND OF MEDICINES AND MEDICAL MATERIALS. I.—SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, APPLIANCES, AND MATERIALS. District equipment d1 surgical instruments Charge and issue. Returns from Principal Medical Officers. Station Hospital Surgical instruments and materials. 635. At the headquarters of each district an equip- ment of surgical instruments, appliances, and materials, consisting of the articles specified in Appendix No. 7, will be provided for use throughout the district. These instruments and appliances will be placed by the Prin- cipal Medical Officer in charge of a quartermaster, who will be responsible to him for their safe custody and good condition. They will be issued on loan to medical officers in charge of hospitals within the district on requisi- tion on the Principal Medical Officer, and will be returned when no longer required. When received back from loan, a medical officer and the quartermaster will at once examine them, and report on their condition to the Principal Medical Officer. Principal Medical Officers of districts at home will forward half-yearly on the 1st January and 1st July, and those of commands abroad annually, on the 1st April, on the approved form, a list of these instruments and appliances to the Director-General ; stating the condition of each article, and if unserviceable whether from fair wear and tear or otherwise. In all cases of loss or damage not attributable to fair wear and tear, the instructions contained in the Queen s Regulations will be attended to. 636. At each station hospital an equipment of surgical instruments, appliances, and materials consisting of the articles specified in Appendix No. 8, will be provided. The medical officer in charge of the hospital will be respon- sible for the custody and condition of this equipment, and requisitions for all repairs, completions, and replace- ments will be included as far as practicable, in the half-