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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    General Hospital. Section II. 253. A standing Medical Board of which the Principal standing Medical Officer is President, will be part of the organiza- jjP^f1 tion of all general hospitals (see paragraph 796). Principal Medical Officer. 254. Subject to the General Officer Commanding the Disciplinary district, the Principal Medical Officer will have command power (1) of all officers of the Army Medical Staff, and soldiers of the Medical Staff Corps attached to the hospital; (2) of all patients in hospital, and officers and soldiers of other corps attached to the Medical Staff Corps for duty ; and he will be responsible for the discipline of the whole estab- lishment. 255. He will nominate medical officers to the charge of Distribution divisions, and will see that the duties of the Army Medical duties!^1 Staff and Medical Staff Corps are carried out in accordance with Regulations. 256. He will detail an orderly medical officer for the Orderly day according to the instructions laid down in paragraphs officer^ 19 and 20, and issue such further local orders for his guidance as he may find necessary. 257. He will detail warrant officers, non-commis- of sioned officers, and men of the Medical Staff Corps for Medical staff the various duties connected with the hospital, and will Corps, make such arrangements for night guards as he may consider necessarv. 258. He will, when a Lady Superintendent and nurses Female are employed in the hospital, detail them for duty (see duties, paragraphs 209 to 242). 259. He will approve and sign requisitions submitted o^ospitah and initialed by the quarter master ; and will satisfy himself that the hospital is completely organized as laid down in paragraphs 243, 244, and 247. 260. Pie will see that inspections of buildings, quarters, inspection of and enclosures connected with the hospital are system- ^ld,n^s atically carried out, and will approve and sign all requi- sitions on the Eoyal Engineers for alterations and repairs, stating whether such are of an urgent nature. At all inspections of the hospital by the Eoyal Engineers, or the (officer in charge of barracks, he will detail a medical officer to be present, and will furnish the certified state- ment referred to in paragraph 368. 261. He will satisfy himself as to the clothing, bedding, ^[gsms and nursing, and general comfort of the sick, and as to the 1C s* quality and cooking of diets and extras. 262. He will satisfy himself that medicines and medical Medicines.