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. Principal Medical Officers. Army Medical Staff. Keturn?. aid, will, on arrival at and departure from the base, report themselves, or be reported, to him. 102. He will render such returns to the Principal Medical Officer of the field force as may be directed by I h i m With a Division. Position and duties. Command of Army Medi- cal Staff and Medical SDaff Corps. Responsi- bility for disposal of hospitals. Frequent i nspections. Reports. Prevent unfit men remaining with corps. Guard against over crowding of field hos- pitals. Evacuation towards base. Furnish names of men from 103. The Principal Medical Officer will be on the Staff of, and remain with the Headquarters of the Division, will advise the General Officer Commanding the Division on all matters affecting the health of the division, and will receive and transmit orders from him and from the Principal Medical Officer of the Army. 104. The officers of the Army Medical Staff and the I warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the * Medical Staff Corps attached to corps, bearer companies, and field hospitals within the division will be under his orders and at his disposal, and he will, under the General Officer Commanding, be responsible for the movements and proper distribution of the companies and hospitals at all times. 105. He will frequently inspect the bearer companies and field hospitals, and ascertain that medicines, surgical appliances, food supplies of all kinds, equipment, shelter, and transport, are in every respect sufficient for the wants of the sick and wounded. 106. He will make all reports on hospital establish- ments to the General Officer Commanding the Division and the Principal Medical Officer of the field force. 107. He will see that medical officers attached to corps do not allow sick or unfit men to remain with their corps and encumber the front. 108. He will be careful to guard against the field hospitals becoming hampered and overcrowded with sick, and will endeavour to keep up a steady system of removal towards the base of such men as are not likely to become speedily effective, but he will at the same time be careful that no soldiers who are likely to become efficient in a reasonable time are allowed to pass to the rear. 109. He will keep the Principal Medical Officer of the field force constantly informed of the number and descrip-| tion of sick and wounded requiring transport towards the base, and will specify, if possible, the kind and quantity of sick carriage necessary. 110. He will, from the nominal rolls (Army Form 11226) of men sent to the rear from the field hospitals, furnish the General Officer Commanding, when called upon, with