Regulations for the duties of inspectors-general and deputy inspectors-general of hospitals : for the duties of staff and regimental medical officers, for the organization of general, regimental, and field hospitals, and for the duties of officers, attendants, and nurses, for sanitary measures, and precautions for preserving the health of the troops, for the duties of sanitary officers attached to armies, and for drawing up sanitary and medical statistics and reports.

Date:: 1859

Credit: Regulations for the duties of inspectors-general and deputy inspectors-general of hospitals : for the duties of staff and regimental medical officers, for the organization of general, regimental, and field hospitals, and for the duties of officers, attendants, and nurses, for sanitary measures, and precautions for preserving the health of the troops, for the duties of sanitary officers attached to armies, and for drawing up sanitary and medical statistics and reports. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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There are no printed regulations for the African coast service. And there are no printed regulations for the medical care of troops and sick on board transport ships, though on some of these heads lithographed circulars have from time to time been issued. ■ We have supplied these defects in Sections II., IV., V., and XXII. Besides the changes stated above, we haA'^e introduced amendments in the remaining regulations to render them more etHcient, and we have recast the instructions placed at the end of the Regulations. Another subject which was referred to our Commission was, to introduce certain sanitary alterations into the Quarter- master-General's instructions. Our proposed changes refer to the appointment of a Sanitary Officer to be attached to that Department in time of war; and we hope that, with the able assistance of the Quartermaster-General, we have so arranged the duties and responsibilities as that the Quarter- master-General's Department shall have the advantage of the best scientific advice, together with that entire liberty of action which is indispensable to the due performance of its duties. The only remaining subject included in our instructions refers to certain modifications required to be introduced into the Barrack regulations. The most important of these are inferred in the sanitary regulations, Section XX. We have not yet been able to revise those portions of the existing regulations for the Barrack service, or of the Queen's Regulations, referred to in our instructions, but we hope before long to address ourselves to the task. Should any questions arise res])ecting any part of the accompanying Regulations, if you will have the goodness to refer tliem to me, I shall be happy again to submit them to the Commission. I have the honour to be, Your obedient servant, SIDNEY HERBERT. The Right Hon. Major-General J. Peel, Secretary of State for War.

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