Instructions for the Royal Naval Hospitals at Haslar and Plymouth.

  • British Admiralty Office
Date:
1834
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Instructions for the Royal Naval Hospitals at Haslar and Plymouth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the day on which it is to commence. In cases of real emergency, however, you are authorized to give such leave as shall appear to you absolutely necessary, representing the same to Us, stating your reasons, and the time for which you shall have allowed any Officer to be absent on such emergency. You are also authorized, occasionally, to grant such leave of absence to the Labourers and Servants of the establishment as shall, without prejudice to the Public Service, appear to you reasonable and necessary. 15. The Hospital Matefe and Clerks are to be within the gates by eleven o’clock every night, and all other persons belonging to the establishment, except the Lieutenants, Physicians, Sur- geons, Agent, and Chaplain, are to return by ten o’clock, unless your permission to stay out later shall have been obtained; and you are to cause the Porter to report to you, every morning, the names of those persons below the rank of the above principal officers who may return to the Hospital after the hours appointed for them, as well as the time at which they do return. 16. You are to take care that divine service be regularly per- formed in the Chapel of the Hospital, as directed in the Chaplain’s Instructions, causing such of the patients to attend as may be able so to do, without injury to their health ; and you are likewise to see that the Chaplain perform all the other duties of his station, agreeably to his Instructions. 17. If complaint be at any time made to you of irregularity, neglect, or misconduct, in any Officers, or other persons, in the Hospital, or if you should yourself observe any thing improper in their behaviour, you are to.inquire into the same as soon as possible, that every just cause of dissatisfaction may be removed by prompt redress, and the commission of faults be prevented by the fear of immediate correction. To Servants. Persons to be in the Hospital by eleven o’clock at night. Ditto by ten. Divine Service to be regularly performed. Irregularities to be immediately inquired into.
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