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. Scale of 489. The scale of hospital equipment for a hospital ship I equipment. °f heds is laid clown in the Equipment Eegulations. J Scale of 4:90. The scale of hospital clothing is laid down in the hospital Clothing Eegulations. social Special fittings, such as ice-making machines, re- fittings, frigerating chambers, &c, will be determined on, according to the nature of the service on which the shiiis are to be employed. Dispensaries 492. Dispensaries will be fitted up on board, or medicine store?GdlCal cnes^s or °ther medical stores supplied, as maybe determined by the Director-General. For an Each division of an Army Corps will, when con- Army Corps, sidered necessary, have a Hospital Ship (with steam power) capable of making up 200 beds, or 250 on an emergency. Relieving 494. There will be one or more fast steam vessels, each ship and making up 60 beds, which will be employed as Relieving mail packets, gfcjpg for tlie hospital ships to take the worst cases to England or elsewhere. Despatch vessels, each fitted out with canvas cots, will carry less severe cases to any avail- able packet station to meet the mail packets on their way to England, within which special arrangements will be made for carrying a small number of invalids, s mall steam 495. Each hospital ship will have a small steam transport JJJJJPJjftas attached as a Store Ship, and will be supplied with 400 soie sups. canvas co£g -n addition to the cots required for use on Canvas cots board. These will be fitted into transports remaining at ai^os^tai11 ^ne ^ase °^ operations when additional hospital accommo- accommoda- dation is required. tionin 495 ^he dieting of patients on board hospital ships Dietij, on and their relieving vessels will be conducted in the same board & way as in general hospitals, and the same army forms will hospital^ be used. Daily requisitions for articles of diet and medical reiTevmg comforts will be made on the paymaster, or, if it be a hired vessels. ship, on the master of the vessel. statement of 497. A statement of provisions received, issued, and provision. remaining will be completed on Army Form F 735, at the end of each month, and forwarded to the Director-General. Arrange- 498. Hired transports taken up in time of war will, nientsin as regards medical arrangements, be dealt with in accord- hired . transports. ance with Section XVII, Queen's Regulations and Ordera for the Army, and Section I (V) of these Regulations. Sick accom- 499. Every transport ship will accommodate temporarily modation on in ftg sick bay three per cent, of the entire force that it 6htps.P°rt carries, but transports remaining at the base of operations can on an emergency be fitted for the temporary reception of additional sick and wounded officers and men.