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. eyes, without the aid of glasses, at any distance the can- didate may select. Squint, inability to distinguish the principal colours, or any morbid condition, subject to the risk of aggravation or recurrence in either eye, will cause the rejection of a candidate. Form for the 674. The proceedings of the Board, referred to in para- 51• theiVoard graph 672, will be made out on the following Form :— Name. Age. Height. Chest girth. Remarks as to fitness or the reverse. II.—RECRUITS. Definition of 675. All' military medical officers, and also medical medical8 officers of Militia and Yeomanry, and of the Army Medical Officers. Keserve, when their battalions or regiments are embodied or out for training, or when they are appointed to the charge of a regimental district or station, are empowered to carry out the medical examination of recruits. Responsi- r> 676. The approving medical officer, as defined in the bility for & preceding paragraph, is responsible for the measurement IIh'^'oT of recruits, as regards standard of height, chest, and recruits. weight, as well as for their age being in accordance with the schedules given from time to time in Army Orders. Entries on 677. The medical officer will be careful to see that the attestation, following particulars are correctly entered on both at- testations before signing them:—Age, height, weight, chest- measurement, complexion, colour of hair and eyes, and any distinctive marks or marks indicating congenital pecu- liarities or previous disease; writing none when there are no distinctive marks. Note 678. If the medical officer is of opinion, judging from whether the inspection, or from the general appearance of the * reviousf^ recruit, that the man has served before, he will (unless the served. man acknowledges to any previous service) attach a slip i to the attestation, statiug his opinion thereon, for the! information and guidance of the approving field officer. I Declaration 679. The signature of an examining surgeon to an hy exa- attestation will be considered tantamount to a declaration office^ tnat ne Persona^y examined the recruit in question according to these instructions, and that the man has no blemish or defect, except those noted on the attestation ; remarks relative to any defects in the recruit will be in the examining officer's own handwriting.