Instructions to medical officers of the United States Navy.

  • United States. Navy Department. 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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    [rf.] Abstract of Patients,'^ Iform M.'] to Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and a duplicate of the same to the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing; also similar account of Marines at a post, to their Commanding officer. [e.] Complete entries in the book of Receipts and Expenditures, of Medi- cines, Stores, &c,, received during the quarter. 9. At the end of the fourth quarter, complete inventory for the year, and prepare Eeturn, Iform C] for Bureau, with account of Expenditures of Annual Return. Hospital Stores, I form if. ] . 10. Surgeons of Hospitals are positively forbidden to make any changes in Hospital grounds. Hospital buildings or grounds, without permission from the Bureau. ARTICLE XI. NAVAL ASYLUM. (^ The Medical Department of this establishment will be governed by the rules Asylum. for other Hospitals. ARTICLE XII. NAVAL LABORATORY. 1. The Director of the Laboratory will receive timely notification of the Laboratory, probable force to be kept afloat; and,:for this and other current wants, he will keep on hand, by manufacture or otherwise, an adequate stock of the articles ke^fo^n hand^^ enumerated in the allowance table. Whenever any vessel is to be got ready for sea, he will be notified to supply Notification her outfit; and, on forwarding it to her, he will transmit form B, in duplicate, ^°^ '^*^'- to the Senior Medical officer aboard, who, after ascertaining that the invoice is correct, will sign both the attached receipts, retain one of the forms, and send the other, by mail, to this Bureau. 3. In plain cases of emergency, the Director may make irregular issues to j^egular issues, the Surgeons of the Hospital, Navy Yard and Receiving Ship, at New York, to be included in their next quarterly requisition ; and, under the same circum- stances, he may furnish requisite articles to vessels in commission at New York; in the latter case, however, the Bureau must be immediately notified; and, in all cases, deviations from quarterly requisitions must be discouraged, as involving undue labor. 4. Articles returned by Surgeons must be accompanied by an Inventory, the Returned arU- omission of which shall be reported, by the Director, to this Bureau; and, upon verifying such inventory, he shall make receipts in duplicate, one of which shall be sent to the Surgeon to be credited, and the other to the Bureau; then the 2