Volume 1
Regulations and instructions for the medical officers of His Majesty's fleet.
- British Admiralty Office
- Date:
- [1825]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Regulations and instructions for the medical officers of His Majesty's fleet. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![General Economy of the Establishment. Efficiency of the Officers and.other Persons employed therein. And he is also to attend at any Survey which may be held, during his Visitation, on Men supposed to be unfit for the Service, and assist the Surveying Officers with his Opinion. He is likewise to examine with great attention the state of the Agent’s Accounts, particularly that of his Contingent Disbursements. He is to transmit to the Commander-in-Chief, and also to the Victualling Board, a Report of the result of each Visitation, with such Observations thereupon as | may be necessary to guide him, or them, in the adoption of any measures which may be found expedient, in consequence thereof. 8. He is also, as opportunities occur, to communicate with the Vic- tualling Board on the Health of the Fleet, and to state to them whatever circumstances, relating to the Medica] Department, it may be proper they should be informed of, in order that they may take such Measures as may be deemed necessary for the occasion. 93 The Physician is to give immediate Information to the Victualling Board, of the Day on which he shall have joined the Fleet; and when unemployed, during peace, he is to state his Address to the said Board on the 31st December, and as often as he shall change his Abode; and during War, on the 31st March, 30th June, and 30th September, as well as on the 31st December, in each year, in order that the Board may at all times be informed of his Residence.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22006126_0001_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
