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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$48. In every General Hospital a ISIedical Officer, specially Kkgistrar. appointed by the Director-General, shall act as Registrar, j^^^^^^^ and shall keep the statistics of the Hospital in such manner statistics, as the Director-General may require. 49. He shall make up the details of cases from the Hospital To make ab- books, so as to bring under one view the results of the p-t!if]3ooks^'' medical and surgical treatment within the Hospital. 50. A Superintendent-General of Nurses, specially selected -^ogjETii,^ for her personal qualifications for the office, appointed by the jjogpf^^L^. Secretary of State for War, and removable by him, will be at the head of all Superintendents and Nurses in all General Superintendent Hospitals, where there are Nurses, at home and abroad, in ^^^''''^ peace and m war. 51. It will be her special duty to enforce necessary discipline To enforce among all Superintendents and Nurses, so that the orders of ^'^'^'P^*^- the ^ledical Officers in matters relating to the comfort and care of the sick may be efficiently carried out. 52. Her appointment will be notified in General Orders, Communica- and she will have the joower of communicating directly with tion with the Secretary-of-State for War. The Director-General will Secretary of 1 1 \ • otate and Di- commumcate mrectly with her on any change he may desn-e rector-General. to have introduced in the arrangements, having for their object the nursing of the sick in General Hospitals; and it will be her duty, in combination with her other duties, to make such arrangements as shall give the Director-General satisfaction. In the event of any difference of opinion between the Direc- tor-General and the Superintendent-General, the matter shall be decided by reference to the Secretary-of-State for War. 53. The Superintendent-General of Nurses shall choose and One Saperin- appoint a Superintendent in every General Hospital where tendent for each there are Nurses, as Head over the Nurses in the Hospital. ^^'^'•^J Hos- She shall have an Assistant, ranking and paid as a Nurse, to S'.erelrr^ take charge under her of the linen, who is to have nothing Nurses. to do in the wards. No Superintendent shall be appointed to or removed from any General Hospital, without the Superin- tendent-General's sanction; and all appointments or removals of Superintendents made by her must be notified to the Director-General. 54. The Superintendent-General of Nurses shall choose Nurses not to and appoint Nurses for each General Hospital, on requisition exceed one for of the Director-General, in such proportion that no Nurse ^^f^^y-^^e shall have charge of fewer than twenty-five cases. No nurse ' shall be appointed to, or removed from, any General Hospital$

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