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 I. Army Medical Staff. Confidential reports. Inspection of recruits. Detail of orderly medical officer. Detail of orderlv medical officer for more than one day. Delegation of duties at out stations. Roster at stations abroad. Disposal of diet and extra-diet sheets. Snperyision f)f nature of diets and extras. duties. They will furnish officers leaving their districts with a certificate showing the amount of leave taken up to the date of transfer. 17. Principal Medical Officers will,on the first of Janua ry in each year, or as soon after as possible, draw up con fidental reports upon all officers of the Army Medical Stall who may have served under them during the preceding year. Such reports are to be prepared on Army Form 0 338,and submitted to the General Officers Commanding for Iran ; mission to the Military Secretary. They will furnish similar reports, on the 1st January and 1st July, in manu- script to the Director-General on the Lady Superintendents of Xurses serving under their supervision, and forward the reports directed in paragraph 228. 18. They will make inspections, at such limes as may be found most convenient, of the recruits of the corps stationed in their immediate vicinity, to satisfy themselves regarding the physique of the men entering the service. 19. They will, at stations where they consider it neces- sary to detail an Orderly Officer, keep a roster for thel duty, which if practicable will be limited to officers under! the rank of Surgeon Lieut.-Colonel ; from this roster they will detail the Orderly Officer for the day, and nominate the next for duty as the officer in waiting. They will file the Orderly Medical Officer's report for after reference il required. 20. At stations where it may be impracticable to de- tail an Orderly Officer daily, but necessary that one should be nominated for a longer period at a time, the Principal Medical Officer will make such modifications of the regulations referred to in paragraphs 305 to .312 as will meet the altered circumstances of the case. 21. At large hospitals not at the headquarters of the district, the Medical Officer in charge will keep the roster and detail an orderly medical officer. 22. At stations abroad Principal Medical Officers will keep a roster, showing the dates of the arrival of medical officers and nursing sisters in and departure from the command. They will at the end of each year furnish the Director-General with a return compiled from this roster. 23. On receipt of diet and extra-diet sheets from the hospitals in their districts or commands, they will examine them and transmit them as soon as possible to the district officer in charge of supplies (see paragraph 385). 24. They will supervise the nature and quantities of diets and extras, as ordered for individual cases. They