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. Local purchases of medicines and appli- ances. Bills to be approved at home by Director- General. Payment of bills. Purchases at stations abroad. Articles supplied by officer in charge of supplies for medical purposes. Disinfectants not a medical supply. the subdistrict, accompanied by receipts for the amountI paid, and the carriers' notes as vouchers. 665. Medicines, leeches, or other articles or appli- ances, not enumerated in the list laid down in Appendices 9 and 10, if purchased locally without previous sanction from Principal Medical Officers, will not be allowed at the public expense, unless under circumstances so urgent as not to admit of reference: medical officers so purchasing will at once apply for covering authority, and will state fully the grounds of urgency. 666. All local purchases will be certified by the medical officers as having been absolutely necessary, and obtained on the best and cheapest terms, and the bills will be sent to the Principal Medical Officer for examina- tion ; the latter will cause an abstract in duplicate to be prepared on Army Form I 1210, which, with the bills, will be forwarded to the Director-General at the end of each quarter for approval. 667. The Director-General will return the bills, with one copy of the abstract, as soon as possible to the Principal Medical Officer, for payment by the district paymaster. 668. At stations abroad, the Principal Medical Officer will approve the payment of bills for local purchases of medicines and appliances. 669. Such articles as vinegar, loaf sugar, treacle <fec, when necessarily provided by the officer in charge of supplies for purely medical purposes, will be included in the abstract (Army Form I 1210) mentioned in paragraph 666, the Officer in charge of Supplies giving the necessary information as to price. 670. Articles for disinfecting or fumigating purposes will not be included in requisitions put forward to the Director-General, and when obtained locally will not be included in the quarterly abstracts on Army Form I 1210 (see paragraph 761).