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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    Appendix No. 3. 22. Health inspections should be frequently made, but in such a manner as not to create alarm. 23. The minds of the men should be occupied by healthy amusements and exercise. 24. Each man should be provided with two flannel belts as part of his necessaries, and flannel shirts should likewise be worn. 25. The non-commissioned officers should be instructed to be on the watch for men suffering from looseness of the bowels, so as to have them at once brought under treatment in hospital. 26. The women should be warned that if they or their children suffer from diarrhoea they must at once apply for treatment. 27. On the occurrence of a case of cholera in barracks, the room from which the man has been taken will be vacated, fumigated, and cleaned. 28. When the disease has invaded a barrack, the troops will, under the orders of the General Officer Commanding, and when so advised by the Principal Medical Officer, be camped out, when practicable, on ground selected and under arrangements previously made by the Quarter- master-General's Department. 29. When cases occur in camp, the site will, if possible, be changed. 30. Barrack bedding will, if possible, be used in hospitals in the treatment of cholera patients, and will be <lealt with in accordance with the Sanitary Instructions in these Regulations. 31. The evacuations of patients suffering from cholera or choleraic diarrhoea should be destroyed, and medical officers will see that the stools and vomit are passed into vessels supplied with chloride of lime, or carbolic acid powder, and thereafter buried in some place, or disposed of in a drain, set apart for the purpose. 32. All bedding and clothing used by cholera patients will be treated as laid down in the paragraph No. 747 of these Regulations.