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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    Hospital Ships. Section II. Medical Officer in Charge. 500. The medical officer in charge will be gfiided in the Duties, performance of his duties by the instructions contain paragraphs 360 to 407, so far as they are applicable. 501. He will be responsible for the clothing and equip- Accounting ment of the men of the Medical Staff Corps on board, Officer, and he is the Accounting Officer for the hospital equip- ment placed on board by the War Department (see paragraph 560). 502. He will furnish the returns laid down in paragraphs u. rurns. 607 to 609, 611. 503. On the arrival of a hospital ship at home for Transfer of discharge, the medical officer in charge will at once com-st0,vs t0 municate with the nearest Senior Ordnance Store Officer, stop requesting that a representative of the Ordnance Store pwrtnenl Department should be detailed to take over from him chaw* all War Department stores, notifying the time most con- venient for the transfer to take place, and quoting this regulation. Vouchers giving details of the stores in question will be prepared by the medical office)* in charge in the usual manner. 504. On the conclusion of the service he will he re- Document.*, sponsible that all documents, books, and hospil ^ Snded ovei are'.handed over to the Principal Medical Officer. Xetley. Medical Officers, Quartermasters, and Nursing- Sisters doing- Duty on Board. 505. Medical officers, quartermasters, and nursing Duties. sisters attached for duty to a hospital ship will perform their duties in accordance with the instructions com in paragraphs 286 to 311, 316 to 332, and 209 far as they are applicable. III.—HOSPITALS ON THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION. Organization. 506. These hospitals will, if possible, he cKete plied paragraph 484) and will be equipped as laid iown in Jjjj^ the Clothing and Equipment Regulations with a view to c.t.aj1)men3 their being readily moved when necessary. They will not be supplied with special wagon transport. The pera >nnel is laid down in Field Army Establishments—Serv i \ 507. The medical officers in charge of these hospitals will Returns to renderthereturnslaiddown in i)aragraphs()06,(jO8.(;«M), :Uid bo rendered- 611 of these Regulations, and those required by the Queen's Regulations.