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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$ing any Recruiting or other Military Parties on the same station, viz. :— If he supply Medicines. 2d. ■ Ud. ■ If he do not supply Medicines. \^d. per week, for each person up to 50 inclusive. Id. per week, for each person above 50. Private Prac- titioners re- ceiving Con- tract Rates. charges for these allowances are to be be made ttled Bills of Private Practitioners 7iot receiving Contract Rates. Sanitary Duties. Cubic Space. 22. All according to the Form, page 16G, and are to De se quarter!}', if the Practitioner shall have the medical charge during an entire quarter, or immediately on the termination of the service, if during less than a quarter. [Blank forms for these charges are supplied by the War Office.] 23. Bills of Private Practitioners, not receiving contract rates, in the form prescribed page 169, are to be submitted to the Director-General, in London, or the Principal Medi- cal Officer in the Colonies, as the case may be, for approval (care being taken that the Certificate in the margin of the Form be properly filled up and signed) ; on the receipt of which approval the amount may be charged, if supported by proof of pa^mient, without reference to the War Office. [Blank Forms of these Bills may be obtained from the War Office, on requisition.] VII.—Hospitals. 1. Wherever a General Hospital is organized, all sanitary duties connected with the Hospital shall be performed by a Medical Officer appointed by the Director-General to dis- charge the sanitary duties of such Hospital, as detailed in these regulations. In Regimental Hospitals, the Surgeon or Medical Officer in charge shall perform all the sanitary duties connected with his own Regimental Hospital. 2. The minimum space to be allowed for each bed in any permanent Hospital shall be 1,200 cubic feet at home, and at stations in temperate climates, and 1,500 cubic feet at stations in tropical climates.* The number of beds which each ward is capable of containing in accordance with these measure- ments shall be painted outside the door of the ward, and the number of beds shall not be increased beyond the num- ber so notified, without the sanction of the Secretary of State. In detached wooden huts in temperate climates the minimum of space is to be 600 cubic feet per bed ; and the number of beds per hut is also to be painted on the door. Each patient shall have a separate bed. » The amount of cubic space per bed in this Regulation must be given in all permanent Hospitals where the accommodation admits of it. When Hospitals are not fully occupied, the sick must be distributed so as to f;ive, as nearly as may be, the amount specified. In all new or enlarged Hospitals the full amount will be given.$

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