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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    Medical Attendance. Section III. 735. Pensioners or others employed in tlu; military or ivnsionns civil departments of the army and occupying quarters in all,,,ll, Is barracks by War Office authority, when attacked by any ^SS?8 contagious or infectious disease which, in the opinion of attacked the senior medical officer, renders their removal to fnt>I.ti()U3 hospital necessary on sanitary grounds, will be admitted diseate. to military hospitals (subject to special hospital stoppages under the Allowance Eegnlations) whenever hospital accommodation can be made available for them. VI—VACCINATION. 736. Every recruit, except those bearing distinct marks Recruit, of small-pox, will be vaccinated at the depot of the corps to which he belongs, unless the operation is certified to have been already successfully performed subsequently to his enlistment, or, in the case of a recruit joining from the Militia, during his service in that force ; and the officer in medical charge of such dep6t will be responsible that this is done, and that the necessary information regarding vaccination or re-vaccination is recorded in the soldier's medical history sheet (Army Form B 178) and in the vac- cination register (Army Book 28). 737. When a man has been successfully vaccinated or Kepetition re-vaccinated on or after his entry into the service, it will unnecessary, not be necessary to repeat the operation at any subsequent time during his period of service with the Colours. 738. In the case of Militia recruits it will only be Militia necessary to vaccinate or re-vaccinate such of them as do recrui' not bear distinct marks of small-pox or vaccination. 739. The wives of all soldiers will be re-vaccinated Wives, where they do not bear distinct marks of previous vaccina- tion or small-pox. 740. All soldiers5 children will be vaccinated, and Children. |re-vaccinated when necessary. The form of vaccination certificate given to the parents on the registration of birth will be filled in and transmitted by the medical officer to the registrar of births in all cases where the operation of vaccination of an infant has been performed by a military medical officer. 741. Wherever vaccination is carried out, Vaccination Vaccination Eegisters (Army Books 28 and 28a) will be kept, showing Registers, the results of vaccination and re-vaccination among men, women, and children. 742. Every medical officer in charge of a general or Vaccination station hospital will compile an Annual Eetum, with returns