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. clothing, under clothing, or necessaries be absolutely required, they will be obtained for patients on requisi- tion by the medical officer in charge on the depots of clothing established under the General Officer Com- Washing. manding the lines of communication. The washing of the clothing and under-clothing of patients will be carried out by the washermen attached to the hospital ; all washing materials, such as soap and soda, will be supplied on requisition by the Officer in charge of Supplies. .Instructions. Report before embarka- tion. Accounting. Every name to appear in admission hnd dis- charge book. Returns. Evacuation. Replenish panniers of corps and bearer companies. Medical Officer in Chargre. 539. The medical officer in charge will be guided generally by the instructions contained in paragraphs 360 to 407, as far as they can be carried out on field service. 540. He will, on mobilization and before embarkation, direct the Quartermaster to draw the equipment and stores of the Field Hospital. He will satisfy himself, and report to the Director-General that his charge is complete in personnel aaid equipment in every particular. 541. He is the Accounting Officer for the clothing and I equipment of the personnel; and also for the equipment I and stores of the hospital in the same manner as laid I down for bearer companies in paragraph 560. 542. He will be responsible that the name of every man admitted into the hospital is at once entered in the admissiou and discharge book (Army Book 27), and that no man is allowed to pass through the hospital towards the base whose name has not been so entered and every particular recorded. 543. He will furnish the returns laid down in para- graphs 605, 608 to 611 of these Eegulations, and those required by the Queen's Eegulations. 544. He will, under instructions from the Principal Medical Officer, send all sick and wounded to the hospitals along the lines of communication as soon as practicable, only retaining under treatment cases that are likely to be fit for duty within a short period, or those which might suffer by removal. In sending parties to the base he will follow the system laid down in paragraphs 514 and 515. 545. He will, on requisition, replenish from his reserve panniers the field medical and surgical panniers, field com- panions, and surgical haversacks held by medical officers attached to corps and bearer companies.