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 II. Hospital Establishments. Administra- tion. Minimum establish- ment of men of Medical Staff Corps attached. Ward orderlies. Diet table.] Equipment and stores. Held on inventory. Navy, Royal Marines, and other persons as may be admitted nnder special sanction (see paragraphs 711, 712,. 727, and 735). 335. All station hospitals are subject to the authority of the General or other Officer in command of the troops : but the internal administration is under the Medical Officer in Charge, subject to the control and superinten- dence of the Principal Medical Officer of the district. 336. An establishment of officers of the Army Medical Staff, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Medical Staff Corps, is provided for each station hospital according to requirements. The minimum establishment of hospital subordinates in a station hospital is one non-commissioned officer to act as wardmasteiv steward, and compounder of medicines, one private to perform the duties of cook, and privates as ward orderlies in the following proportion :— When the number of sick under treatment is belo*v 15—one ; When the number of sick under treatment is over 15 and below 25—two ; When the number of sick under treatment is over 25 and below 35—three ; and so on. As medical officers are authorized by the Queen's Regulations to employ without pay, on light hospital duties, such patients as they consider able to assist the- fixed hospital establishment, it is unnecessary to employ additional ward orderlies in the above proportion if, from the nature of the cases under treatment, the duties of the hospital can be efficiently carried out. 337. Except as specified in paragraphs 352 and 357, station hospitals will be dieted in the manner laid down for general hospitals in paragraph 250, and copies of the diet table will be hung up as described in that para- graph. Army Form C 345, Orders for Patients in J Military Hospitals, will be hung up in every ward, audi in the pack store and linen store. 8 338. Every station hospital is equipped, as far as may be necessary, according to the revised schedules of hospital equipment, see paragraph 247. Any articles of equipment beyond the regulated scale will only be issued on special sanction obtained through the Principal Medical Officer of the district. 339. The equipment, stores, buildings, and enclosures are held on inventory under the rules laid down in para- graphs 247 and 249.