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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the Half-yearly Returns, in duplicate, of Professional Books and Forms and of jNledieines, as pointed out in pages 172 and 173, completed to the first of the month in which the em- harkation takes place. IMedical Offi- 12. On the arrival of a Ilcgiment at its destination abroad, on arrivlfo? the Surgeon will present to the Principal Medical Officer lk4ir.ientat upoii the Station a; condensed report of the diseases and home or abroad, casualties, from; the journal of medical occurrences ke])t during the voyage; a lleturn of Medical Comforts expended on Form 2, page 113; also a List of Casualties, with the diseases and their dates, w hich may have taken place since em- barkation. Tiie Medical Officer is also to fill up the Medical Certificates (Medical Certificate Book, page 155,) of the results of cases of sickness embarked, and which were entered in the Admission and Discharge Book left behind at the Depot, and he.is^ tp transmit the Certificates to the Medical Officer of the Depot, through the Principal Medical Officer, in order that the results may be entered in the Admission and Dis- charge Book. The same rules are to be observed on the homeward voyage from all Foreign Stations, in accordance with the instructions furnished by the Principal Medical Officer on the Station. Arrangements 13. On the removal of any Medical Officer in charge of a when a Medical liegij-nental Depot or Detachment Hospital to another m^ved Station or Service, he is to furnish the Director-General with a sin ilar Distribution of the Sick, made up to the date of relinquishing such charge, and is to deliver over the IVIedical Stores, Hospital Books, Records, &c., taking receipts in duplicate for the same from the Officer receiving them, and forthwith transmitting those receipts to the Director-General or Principal Medical Officer. Arriv;d Aom, 14. Each Mcdical Officer, under whatever circumstances or Departnie either of duty br otherwise he may embark for a Foreign iTtat^on to^be Station, or disembark in this country, will immediately report reported. the date thereof, in writing, to the Director General, stating the circumstances under which he is proceeding abroad or returninu-home. ' -rnv/o,!. .!..■ Attendance at 15. Medical Officers in all General and Regimental Hos- thc Hospital, pltals must regularly visit the Hospital twice a day ; in the morning before nine o'clock in simimer, and before ten in winter, and in the CN ening between five and six throughout tiie year, and at such other times as may be requisite; at whicli hours the Patients are to be prescribed for, and those newly admitted, al'ter having had their persons cleaned, and clothes

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