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. private medical practitioner is employed at contract rates, provided that in each case they reside within a radius of one mile from the hospital (see paragraph 722). 724. The families of non-commissioned officers and men may be admitted into a hospital for soldiers' wives and children or ward allotted in barracks, under the con- ditions laid down in paragraphs 176 to 181, and those who have a claim to free treatment in hospital when their husbands are with them, do not forfeit that claim when their husbands are absent on duty. 725. The wives and children of the Militia staff occupying quarters in barracks will not be entitled to medical comforts unless the non-commissioned officers are transfers serving under their army engagement, in which case the medical comforts detailed in paragraph 181 will be issued. 726. Medical officers are at liberty to attend the wives and children of soldiers who are married but are not on married roll, the married establishment, and to supply medicines for them from the public stock at the discretion of the Principal Medical Officer. Admission to hospital, Medical comforts for families of Militia staff. Attendance on families not on VI.—WAEEAXT OFFICERS AND NON-COMMIS- SIONED OFFICERS OF THE INDIAN SERVICE, AND THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN. Attendance on warrant and non- com mis- sioned offi- cers. On wives and children. 727. Warrant officers and non-commissioned officers of the Indian Service requiring medical attendance while at home on sick leave, or on leave on private affairs, who have been certified by the Medical Board at the India Office to be fit cases for admission into hospital, will be admitted into military hospitals where suitable accom- modation exists. When admission into hospital is not required, they will be granted medical advice and medicines only, as out- patients, on application to the Army Medical Officer in charge of the military hospital, provided they reside within the radius as denned in paragraph 709. When the wives and children of the warrant and non- commissioned officers referred to above accompany them home, they will, if accommodation exists, be admitted into a hospital for soldiers' wives and children, or be otherwise provided with medical attendance and medicines, on the Scune conditions as those laid down for the warrant and non-commissioned officers.