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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    Bearer Companies. Section II. Medical Officers Attached. 562. The medical officers attached for duty will act under the medical officer in command, and will be guided by the instructions contained in the Manual for the Medical Staff Corps, Section II. Acting Quartermaster. 563. The warrant officer attached to the company will perform the duties of quartermaster, and will be responsible that the accounts of equipment, stores, and medical comforts are kept in accordance with paragraph VI—DEPOTS FOR MEDICAL STORES. At the Base. 564. A Depot of Medical and Surgical Stores will be Depot for established at the base of operations of an army in the hospit^and field, for the supply of medicines and surgical appliances ships. to ail hospitals connected with the force, and also to hospital, troop, and transport ships. 565. The staff of the depot, as shown in Field Army staff. Establishments, Service Abroad, is included in the general staff of the Principal Medical Officer at the base. 566. The medical officer in charge of the depot will Medical be responsible that the stores in his charge are carefully ^^g^ preserved from the weather, and so arranged that supplies responsible, of all kinds can be readily sent to the front on the shortest notice. 567. He will obtain fresh supplies by requisition on Fresh the Director-General, and all such stores will be packed ani in handy cases at home so that repacking at the depot pac m*' may be reduced to a minimum. 568. The stores will be conducted according to the Conduct of instructions laid down in paragraphs 201 to 208. Advanced Depot (when ordered). 569. An Advanced Depot of Medical and Surgical staff of .Stores will, as laid down in Field Army Establishments, deP0t- Service Abroad, be in charge of a medical officer, assisted by the following :— One serjeant compounder of medicines. One corporal as clerk. Two privates as packers and storemen. The last will, if possible, be carpenters accustomed to the use of tools, and will be supplied with a tool chest from the depot of medical stores at the base.