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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$purified or chang-ed, are to be examined, and allotted to their proper Divisions in the Hospital. 16. Prior to the Surgeon's second visit,' the Assistant-Registration of Surgeon, if i)resent, otherwise the Surgeon himself^ must Cases, enter in the jMcdical Case Book, Form L., page 158, eveiy acute or important case, but all cases ir.ust be entered in the Admission and Discliarg^e Book, Fomi G., page 14G, with the disease as soon as it is clearly diagnosed; the disease should also be entered in the Diet lioll. The Evening Reports in the Case Book shovdd give every change in the symptoms since the morning visit, as likeAvise a statement of the dfects of the medicine prescribed in the' morning. li i i>in] Kyoyjr.il, 17. _ Airii^isd(i^i^s;''^i^^of''t:o'iefi^V'y^^ the Com-Medicalinspec- mandiug Officer, should be taken to the Hospital at the morning visit of the same day* tb be inspected by the Surgeon, who will certify their state bf Health, to, the Ooramai:idin^ Officer. I'H'''^ ''5 iigjiu-uM jv-. •;.r ! * a<»i<jjimbA od.t ni bsTilnu od ymn aliu-i^i aill tjsdi 18. Before perfprmiog ^|,'py.,c^pi{ta,l pperation the Surgeon Capital Opera- should, if possible, except fn ^ capes, where delay would be in- expedient, obtain the advice of a superipji- Medical Officer, and he should report the operation, with its results, to the Director General at home, or at Foreign Stations to the Principal Medical OlHcei^ at the StatioU^'^''^' 19. TKc (^ommander-Yn-dlii(el^s ^^^^ Leave of to be referred to, on the subject of leave'of absence' to Absence. Medical Officers ' , . 'T -''p'*^'' ' ' -!no->'»Jl ,>!>iuoU IinnjHoii Milt (nrn'r ''^■nn- 'nil •fo't ■ : ^20. Whena Medical Officer desires leave of absence for l-eave of Ab- the purpose of keeping up and improving his professional ^'^'^'^ '^^'^y* knowledge by attendance at Hospitals or Medical Schools, he should, before applying through iiis Qomm^nding Officer for such leave, obtain the sai^ctioi), of .the Director General, transmitting with, his application to t,h,e pir.ecto.i:-General a de(;laration of the obj^ictjn view, an A stating the Hospitals or Medial .Scliools ..at .whiph, he xlc^V]es, tp attend, and for what period, and showing what arrangements can be made for the performance of all professional duties during his absence, and at what extra expense, if any, to the public. i -MM 21. When a Detachment is without a Regimental Assistant- Detachments Surgeon, and is not within the reach of any Military Medical ^itliout aMedi- Officer, a Private Practitioner may be engaged by the Com- ^''^ manding Officer of the Detachment, at the under-mentioned rates for each person belonging to the Detachment, includ-$

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