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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    Officers/VVives, and Children. ~Secti(mT. season of the year ; also any more effective drainage of camps and barracks and their neighbourhood that^may have been carried out, and, wherever gymnasia exist, the effect of the training on the health of the troops (for guidance see Appendix No 4). On the medical officer being relieved he will hand over this report completed to the date of his handing over his charge. These reports will be attached to the Annual Eeturn from the Station Hospital. III.—DUTIES IN CONNECTION WITH OFFICERS AND THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF SOLDIERS. 173. The necessary medicines and appliances for officers Medicines and their families, and for soldiers' wives and children, 'or officers will be procured from the surgery at the station hospital! and others' The name and designation of the person so prescribed for must be stated on every prescription, which will also be signed by the prescribing medical officer. 174. When an officer is placed on the sick list, or officers on removed from it, the medical officer will, with as little sick list, delay as possible, report the circumstance on Army Form A 27 direct to the Officer Commanding the regiment or corps to which the officer belongs, as well as to the medical officer in charge of the station hospital. 175. Wives and children of non-commissioned officers Soldiers' and men who are unable to attend at the inspection room or hospital will be visited at their own quarters. whenvisited. 176. At stations where there are hospitals or rooms set Admission apart for their treatment, cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, ro hospital and small-pox will always be admitted with a view of cuLTses.tl0U& preventing, or limiting, the spread of such diseases. Other infectious maladies will, as a rule, be treated in quarters, and such cases will only be admitted into hospital under circumstances which justify a departure from the general rule. 177. When a Medical Officer considers that a woman Admission or child labouring under serious or acute disease requires ^gj^g™1 hospital treatment, he will submit an application for admission to the Principal Medical Officer on Army Form B 247. Cases of chronic disease at home will not be admitted without the approval of the Director-General. 178. The wives of non-commissioned officers and men ^^J*011 will invariably be admitted to hospital for their first con- COniine- iinement, provided there be sufficient accommodation, ments. They will be entitled to admission in subsequent cases of confinement— When occupying wooden huts ; When occupying one room in quarters or barracks.