Instructions to medical officers of the United States Navy.

  • Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Date:
1867
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Credit: Instructions to medical officers of the United States Navy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Between the first and tenth day of January, April, July, and October, Quarterly re- Surgeons of regular Kendezvous shall forward to this office a summary of such points of statistical interest as may be of value to the Bureau, together with the abstract of candidates enlisted or rejected. 7. Surgeons of Marine Eendezvous will be governed, in all respects, by the Marine Ren- dezvous, foregoing Instructions for those of Naval Kendezvous. AETICLE V. RECEIVING SHIPS. 1. When recruits arrive aboard, the Surgeon will repeat the examination of Recruits re- examined. them, in the manner as ordered for Eendezvous; and, in case of discovering any defects, he will report to the Commanding Officer that the recruit ought not to be received. [_ Regulations, p. 184, paragraph 1041. ] 2. Every recruit accepted by the Surgeon shall be immediately vaccinated; Vaccination. and a record of vaccinations and their effects shall be made according to form O, for the quarterly returns. 3. Eequisitions are to be made quarterly, as at Navy-Yards, \_Art. VI, Sec. 4,] Requisitions. and outside purchases are prohibited, as at Article VI, Sec. V. 4. In all matters not relating to recruits, as such. Surgeons of Eeceiving Ships General duties, will be governed by the rules prescribed at Article III, for General duties OF Medical Officers. AETICLE VI. NAVY-YARDS. 1. Surgeons of Navy-Yards are frequently required to assist in supplying and stipp]|eg ^^ replenishing the Medical Department of vessels. Such supplies will be drawn from articles on hand for distribution, as far as possible, and the remainder will be procured by purchase; for these receipts will be taken, to be forwarded to the Bureau with the Quarterly Eeturns. If the articles are furnished from the stock already charged to the local account, they will credit their own Sum- mary of Expenses for the current quarter with the value of such issues. 2, No article is to be returned to the Laboratory, unless there is a probability of its being made fit for reissue. 3. Articles received from vessels about to be put out of commission, and Returned stores likely to be required on the station within six months, are to be retained at