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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    damages. (General supervision, Persona] charge. Matters of doubt and difficulty. Responsi- bility when civil prac- titioner called in. Attendance of medical officers at hospital. Disposal of sick on arrival at hospital. the contractor's default or absence, by some other tradesman. In all such cases, however, the Medical Officer will send a copy of his order simultaneously to the Royal Engineer officer. (See Regulations for Royal Engineer Service.) 370. He will, where no quartermaster is attached to the hospital, deal with damages to buildings, equipment, and stores, as directed in paragraphs 320 to 322 (also see Manual for the Medical Staff Corps). 371. He will exercise a general supervision over all the sick in the hospital, and the expenditure of medicines, diets, and extras. He will distribute the duties between himself and the medical officers serving under him, retaining under his immediate care a proportion of patients, except when a departure from this rule is specially sanc- tioned by the Director-General. As a rule all soldiers whom it is proposed to invalide for men fcal or other diseases will be transferred to his care, in order that he may satisfy himself of the necessity for this course before proceeding as directed in paragraphs 614 to 632. 372. He will refer to the Principal Medical Officer all matters of doubt and difficulty either in the management of the sick, or in hospital administration, which cannot be decided by himself. 373. When a civil medical practitioner is called into consultation at a station in the West Indies under the Royal Warrant relating to pay, the medical officer in charge will not thereby be relieved of any portion of his duties or responsibilities in connection with the particular case for which the assistance of such civil practitioner has been obtained. 374. He will visit the hospital twice daily, and at such other times as may be required. At home stations the hours of morning visit will be 9 a.m. in summer (April to September inclusive), and 10 a.m. in winter ; the hours of evening visit will be between 5 and 8 o'clock. Where there is no orderly medical officer of the day, he will arrange that a medical officer is available for the exami- nation of recruits up to 1 p.m. At stations abroad the morning and evening visits will be made at such hours as are suitable to the climate and station. 375. He will examine, as soon as possible, all men sent to hospital, and will, as far as possible, diagnose their diseases and allot them to wards. He will write the disease and the word Hospital in ink opposite each man's name on both the company sick reports (Army Form B 256) : one of these will be sent back by the non-commissioned officer to the Officer Commanding the corps ; the other will be retained as an office record.