Regulations for Army medical services / War Office.

Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Regulations for Army medical services / War Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Section I. Principal Medical Officers. forms'and ^ie^ provide the necessary Army Forms, stationery, Books, and Stationery ; and will cause their use to be how explained to the civilian practitioners in charge of hospitals, supplied. anc| £0 regimental non-commissioned officers employed in place of Medical Staff Corps. Employment 53. If there be no Medical Officer at a station where medicaian there are troops entitled to medical attendance and practi- medicine at the public expense, Principal Medical tioners. Officers will make all necessary arrangements for the medical charge, and will submit the same for the approval of the General or other Officer in command, who will cause the arrangements made, together with the rate of remuneration sanctioned, to be promulgated in Orders. Civilian medical practitioners may, when I necessary, be employed under the terms specified in the * Royal Warrant relating to Pay, &c. (which include the cost of medicines and ordinary surgical materials), without reference to higher authority, but no exceptional rate of remuneration in excess of these terms will be admitted as a charge against the public, without the recommendation of the Director-General, Army Medical Department, and the sanction of the Secretary of State. On the employ- ment of a private medical practitioner, all persons at the same station who are entitled to medical attendance, on the conditions laid down in these Regulations, will be included in the numbers to be attended by him. Officers of the Army Medical Reserve, who are willing to offer their services, will have a prior claim to employment in the district in which they reside to other Medical Officers of the Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteers, or to civilian medical practitioners, of movement 54' -^arty intimation of the movement of troops, and of of troops^ the intended occupation of camps and posts, for the medical charge of which no provision has been made, will be given to the Principal Medical Officer, in order to enable him to make the necessary arrangements. Should a body of troops be, through any emergency, left without medical aid, the Officer Commanding will at once report the circum- stance to the Principal Medical Officer, making in the meantime such local and temporary arrangements as may Terms of be necessary to meet the emergency. The terms on which o™civmment crvnian medical practitioners are employed will, under practi- all circumstances, be at once reported to the Director- tioners. General, Army Medical Department, War Office. Claims for 55. Under ordinary circumstances no claim for medical Attendance attendance will be entertained unless made in conformity how ' with the rates laid down in the Royal Warrant relating forwarded, to Pay, &c, and unless it is submitted by the Officer Com-