Handbook of the medical organisations (chiefly for war) of foreign armies / by Lieut.-Colonel Frank Howard.

  • Howard, Frank, Lieutenant Colonel.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Handbook of the medical organisations (chiefly for war) of foreign armies / by Lieut.-Colonel Frank Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hospital and Ambulance Service in War. The following significant note appears at the end of a paper contributed by Major John Van Eensselaer Hoff, surgeon, United States Army, on the sanitary organisation of the United States Army* :— The paragraphs (1590 to 1G02) of Army Eegula- tious, 1889, under tlie Caption Hospital and Ambu- lance Service in War, give a general outline of sanitary organisation ; this outline embraces simply the principles of battlefield assistance, and fails to enter into the details of organisation so essential to successful work ; hence it inay be justly said that in the medical department of the United States Array there exists to-day no detailed scheme of organisation for active service. In the latest (1901) edition of the United States Army Eegulations, under the heading Field Ser- vice (paragraphs 1616 to 1620), it is stated that :— In field service, troops will be accijm]janied by such number of men of the hospital corps as may be deter- mined by the post-commander on the recommendation of the surgeon. On the march each medical officer will habitually be attended by a mounted private of the hospital corps. Hospital stewards, acting stewards, and at least one private of the corps in each separate command will be mounted when serving in the field, and all privates of the corps will be mounted when serving with mounted conmianda. Horses will be furnished by the quartermnsters' department for members of the corps on duty in the field when practicable. When no horses are available special application for authority to hire must be made. ' * Fourth annual proceedinpi of the Association of Military Sureeons of the United Slates, held at Washington, Ut, 'ind, and 3rd May, 1894.