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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    Statistics of Sickness. Section I Special Returns. 133. When a body of troops is brought together as a Special separate command, in a camp of exercise, for autumn returns on manoeuvres, or other service in time of peace, the Principal camps of °f Medical Officer of the force will at the conclusion of the exercise, &c. service furnish to the Director-General a special return on Army Form A 29, similar to that specified in paragraph 137 for an army in the field. J Returns in the Field—Service Abroad and Home Defence. 134. The Principal Medical Officers of divisions will Daily send consolidated daily states, on Army Form A 28, of the ^rom*13' sick and wounded in the field hospitals under them, to the P.M.O.'sof General Officers Commanding the divisions, for their infor- dlvisions- mation and that of the General Officer Commanding, and .to the Principal Medical Officer of the field force, or, in I the case of Home Defence, of the Army Corps. 135. The Principal Medical Officer of the field force, or, FromP.M.O. I in the case of Home Defence, of the Army Corps, will J?h£f°'C'm~ send a consolidated daily state of the sick and wounded (Army Form A 28) to the General Officer Commanding- in-Chief. 136. From the returns furnished by medical officers in ^0ul^eacrt^r. charge of field hospitals on Army Form A 7, Principal General. Medical Officers of divisions will prepare a consolidated summary of the whole, and forward it, together with the originals, to the Principal Medical Officer of the field force, or, in the case of Home Defence, of the Army Corps, for transmission to the Director-General. 137. The Principal Medical Officer of the field force, or, G^ralt in the case of Home Defence, of the Army Corps, will, on a' the termination of the campaign, furnish to the Director- campaign. General a general return of sickness and casualties in the force, on Army Form A 29. 138. A scale of army forms and books, and of stationery, ^ts;vf ' for the Medical Department of an army in the field, is laid service. down in the Manual for Field Service, Army Medical Staff* * The new Manuals entitled Distribution of Stores for a BearerCompa y and - Distribution of Stores for a Field Hospital, should, when pubh,bed, be used for this purpose instead of the ' Manual for t leld Sen ue.