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. from hospitals. Summary fromP.M.O. Certificates on vaccina- tion from corps and detachments. Source of lymph. Report of cases of small-pox. explanatory remarks, on Army Form A 33, showing the result of vaccination and re-vaccination carried out at the station during the year, from which Principal Medical Officers compile a summary on Army Form A 32. 743. Medical officers doing duty with troops will, once a year (in March), make an inspection for vaccination marks of every man, woman, and child under their care ; and will furnish a certificate by the 1st April to the Principal Medical Officer for the information of the Direc- tor-General, showing the results of such inspection. The Principal Medical Officer will, on receipt of the certificates^ forward as early as practicable, a summary of the same ; showing also action taken in the event of any j^erson bearing unsatisfactory marks. 744. The direct method of vaccination is preferable to that of lymph from tubes or points ; but in vaccination rom arm to arm, or in re-vaccination, the lymph is not to be taken from adults nor from the product of a re-vaccination. 745. All cases of small-pox, whether among officers, men, women, or children, will be immediately specially reported to the Director-General, specifying name and age of each individual, with the dates and results of the operations of vaccination and re-vaccination in each case, and whether the individual bears satisfactory marks, and the number thereof. All cases of small-pox will also be invariably noticed in the remarks appended to the Weekly Be turn of Sick. If the case of small-pox be in a soldier and no marks of vaccination exist, the fact will be men- tioned with a statement showing the date of his joining his corps, and the depot or station from which he joined. VII.—SPECIAL SANITARY RULES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Outbreak of 746. When cases of infectious disease, such as measles, a^sease0,Uil- scarlet fever, &c, occur in the families of soldiers, no chil- port of,' and dren of the families affected will be permitted to attend ^boolsnCe afc scno°l until the Medical Officer in charge reports that they can do so without any risk of carrying infection. In such cases the members of the family will be isolated as far as possible. As a rule, it will be unnecessary to close the schools, but, should the outbreak assume an epidemic form, or should the Medical Officer in charge, for any very special reason, deem it necessary that the schools should be closed, the General or other officer commanding the troops