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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    Station Hospitals. Section II 376. He will, in the event of a sick soldier sent to bos- Men pital not being likely to require treatment beyond the day hosMta? on which he has reported himself sick, detain him in the 10SI>1 ° hospital for that day only. The kit of a soldier so detained will not be taken over by the Medical Department; he will be subsisted from his corps (see paragraph 144), to which he will return if considered fit for duty ; but if at the evening visit he should be found unfit for duty, he will be regu- larly admitted and ordered hospital diet for the following day, notice (in writing) to that effect being at the same time sent to the Officer Commanding his corps. (See paragraph 299.) 377. Themedical officer in charge will furnish a daily state Daily sta of the sick in hospital to the Officer Commanding the station, 01 s.ick and on Army Form A 27. At the headquarters of a district this sen^o/mer state will be sent to the Principal Medical Officer for disehi . transmission to the General or other Officer Command- ing. He will furnish on Army Form B 256 the names of men intended for discharge from hospital as early as possible to the Officer Commanding each corps, in order that a non- commissioned officer may be sent to see that the men receive over their kits correct, and to conduct them back to barracks at such suitable hour after tea in the afternoon or evening as may be determined on. 378. When, in accordance with the Manual for the custo Medical Staff Corps, Section III, paragraph 38, valuables valuables are taken over from a patient for safe keeping, he will forward the quartermaster's or wardmaster's acknow- ledgment of the same to the patient's Commanding Officer. In the event of a patient's death, he will com- municate with the late soldier's Commanding Officer as to the disposal of his kit and valuables (if any), and he will be responsible that these are only given over to some one authorized by the Commanding Officer to receive them. (See the Manual for the Medical Staff Corps, Section III, paragraphs 37 and 38). 379. He will, when a patient under treatment m Report on hospital becomes dangerously ill, or when there is appre- ^ngerousl, hension of a fatal result, at once inform the Commanding m. Officer of the corps to which the man belongs, in order that, if practicable, his friends may be communicated with. He will also inform the Chaplain of the denomination to which the patient belongs. . 380 He will when a man dies m hospital, at once Reports of report the death to the Officer Commanding tire corps to which the man belonged, as well as to the Officer Com- manding the station, on Army Form A 27 ; and will state