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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    Embarkation of Troops. Section L IHospitals, Extra-Duty Pay to Non- commissioned Officers and Men employed A.F. O 1645 Application for Extra-Duty Pay to Medical Staff Corps A.F. I 1228 IApplication for Extra-Duty Pay to Hospital Subordinates not belonging to the Medical Staff Corps A.F. I 1229 Casualty Keturn, Corps Pay A.F. O 1601 The number of forms necessary will be estimated accord- ing to the duplicate copies required and the duration of the trooping service on which the ship is to be employed ; the number of forms of Army Form B 182 required will vary (see paragraphs 437 to 439). Sufficient stationery and writing material will also be supplied to enable the medical officer to furnish the various reports and returns required in manuscript. 65. He will, when troops are embarked on board a ship instructions in charge of a naval medical officer, or of a civilian dvifsur-*1' surgeon, furnish him with such books and forms as are geons in necessary, and will explain their use ; he will also explain charge of how claims for extra-duty pay for hospital attendants necessarily employed during the voyage are to be pre- pared and dealt with, as shown in paragraph 424. 66. He will be responsible that the following medical Medical and and surgical equipment is put on board one of Her Majesty's equipment of ships or a hired vessel at a port of embarkation ; and troopships, the medical officer in charge, or in his absence the Ipaymaster or master of the ship, will give a receipt for the same in duplicate, to be forwarded at once to the Director-General. For ships proceeding on voyages a,broad: Medicine chest complete (Appendix 31). Case of surgeon's instruments (Appendix 12). Tooth instruments (Appendix 19). Stomach pump (Appendix 22). Box of apparatus for fractures and dislocations (Appendix 26). For ships proceeding between ports in the United Kingdom :— One field medical companion fully equipped (Appen- dix 28). Case of surgeon's instruments (Appendix 12). This paragraph does not apply to Her Majesty's ships when employed on Indian service. 67. At the termination of a voyage he will be re- sponsible that the medical and surgical equipment is ing service received over and returned into Army Stores.