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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$M-ere placed on half-pay. Pro.-ided always, that should the interests of the service require it, the Director-General may recommend to the Secretary of State that the Roster may for special reasons he departed from. 4. Staff appointments on foreign service to be for five years Duration of except to unhealthy stations, such as Jamaica, the Windward IjJ^^J'PP^* and Leeward Islands, Bermuda, Ceylon, and Hong-Kong, ^• where the periods shall be limited to three years, unless such period be incompatible ^vith the interests of the public service. V.—^\Vest Coast of Africa. 1. Each Medical Officer volunteering for the West Coast ^ervice and of Africa will be required to serve at one of the stations J^J^ ° on the Coast for a period of twelve months; every such year of service on the coast to count as two years for promotion and retirement; and for every such year's service on the coast, lie will have a year's furlough at home; and for every additional period beyond a year, he will have an equivalent extension of furlough. While he is on leave, he will receive lodging money for such periods as may be fixed by the Secre- tary of State for War. 2. When a A'acancy to a Surgeoncy occurs, the Assistant- Promotion. Surgeon who has served longest on the coast will be entitled to the jiromotion, unless disqualified; and when a vacancy to a Surgeoncy arises in a West IntHa Regiment, it will be filled by the transfer to it of the Surgeon who has served longest on the Coast, and who, when thus transferred, will not be required again to ser^ e in Africa, unless with his Corps. 3. Any Medictil Officer who has volunteered for service on Eemoval to the the West Coast of Africa, may be removed to the StatF or 1^'^. to a Line Regiment after three years' actual service on the Coast, provided he has given satisfaction in the discharge of his duties. VL—Duties of Regimextal Medical Officers. 1. Medical Officers are to ])crform their respective ])ro- Superinten- fessional duties under the instructions and control of the''^'nce and Director-General of the Army INIedical Department, subject, Control, except as regards Mechcal treatment, to the orders of tlieir respective Commanding Officers. The Commanding Officer will possess, and should exercise, an ettective supervision over the manner in which the various duties are performed, in$

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