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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    certificate as to the nature of the illness from which any soldier, who is a member thereof, may be suffering. 4i0°'1^vhen m.ilitiamen are treated by their own militia Militiamen medical officers, mthe hospital, under his charge they will treafced in not be discharged without his permission ; and if con- CriSls sidered permanently unfit they may, with his concurrence be discharged without a medical board. 401. He may grant passes to visitors to see'patients at con- Passes for vement hours, and for this purpose will use Army Book visilors- 402. When, from an increase of sick or other cause, he Additional considers the subordinate staff of the hospital insufficient attendants, to carry on its duties, and that the employment of staff Cor^ additional attendants is absolutely necessary, he will apply to the Principal Medical Officer, in order that, if available, a man of the Medical Staff Corps may be sent for duty. If the Principal Medical Officer is 'unable to detail a man of the Medical Staff Corps, but considers the employment of a temporary orderly from the troops Temporary necessary, the medical officer in charge will apply to the orderly- Officer Commanding the station for the required aid, and will at once make application on Army Form I 1229 to the Principal Medical Officer for authority for the issue of extra-duty pay, which will under no circumstances be issued before the receipt of the special authority of the Director-General. The medical officer in charge will only in cases of emergency apply in the first instance for such attendants to the Officer Commanding the station, and it will be understood that men will not be entitled to extra- duty pay unless their employment is subsequently sanc- tioned by the Principal Medical Officer and approved by the Director-General (see paragraph 336). 403. Such untrained attendants will not be detailed as Duties for special orderlies over patients who are seriously ill, as such avall~ cases should invariably be in charge of trained men of the corps, and, if practicable, of 1st Class orderlies, the ser- vices of the temporary orderlies being utilized in assisting m the routine duties ; and the medical officer in charge is responsible that, in every case, such men are at once sent back to their corps as soon as the necessity for their employment ceases. 404. When, owing to an increase in the number of sick, Reappoint- or other justifiable cause, it is found necessary to apply ^mental for the re-appointment of any regimental non-commissioned non-com- officer or man whose services have been dispensed with, a JjJj^JjJ1 new authority will be obtained for the issue of his extra- man. duty pay from the date of his re-employment.