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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![Diet, how to be 18. Oil home service, or on Stations where a Deputy provided. Purveyor of Hospitals is .employed, every article of diet for the sick in HospHifls t,Q^ be provided under his immediate superintendence, , ' tOi^t, .|pp I oth Stations, the Assistant Steward is to provide the supplies, and to see that the same are delivered and paid for, and duly charged in the quarterly accounts, vouched by the tradesmen's bills. Whenever a Regimental or Depot Hospital is furnished with provisions from a Purveyor's store, the Deputy Purveyor, or, if there be no Deputy Purveyor, the Assistant Steward, will place him- self in direct communication with the Purveyor, as the best means of ensuring prompt attention to the wants of the sick. AA .H to 87olhtf-l_-10 gioibJo'^. vns ,3lKli(p,ol i li>]i Meat,Biead,&c. 19. On th^ arrival of a Begirtieilt or Detachment at a station where a Hospital is to be established, if there be no Deputy Purveyor, the Assistant Steward will take the proper steps for procuring Uie supplies of bread and meat and other ai'ticles of diet. The bread to be of the best household sort, and the meat of good quality, and of pieces best suited to the sick. If any charge beyond the contract price of meat for the troojiB shalf be found necessaiy, such extra charge, not exceeding one penny per pound, will be allowed. Articles of Diet '20.,|n order that the patients ijiay he satisfied that justice in ^re^en^^of ^oile to' them, 6he ' from eadiji,Ward inay ^he present at the Patients'^'^'^ ° weighing of the i|.rtic].ek'' ol^_^'6rdinat^ diet before they are ^°^^^^'M*i:»ib»nt7 bowolfs .eisrbfoJ^ 'io iijnblifiO bm '^ ^il^MEDiyiL^* A^T^i:NfikNc'j^fk^^fe Insane Officers An insane Officer or Soldier, Avhether at home or abroad, and Soldiers, should, under ordinary circmnstances, be , attended by the Medical Officers of the Corps to which hje, belongs, for one month at least; as those Officers, from knowing the probable origin and causes of the complaint, may be most competent to its treatment in its earliest stages. But if, after a reasonable time, the patient shall not recoveTj he' should he sent to any General Hospital, where temporarj^ lunatic wards may have been provided, and if, after a further reasonable period, there be no prospect of his ear|y recovery, a detailed history of the case is - to be transmitted t^o the Director-General, in order that the permission of the Secretary of State for War may be obtained for the removal of the patient to a Lrmatic Asylum, if such removal shall be deemed advisable. In every such case of removal, the j)atient should be sent in charge of a careful Non-commissioned Officer; and at the same time, a minute history of the disorder, its origin, causes, and treatment {see page lOG), must be transmitted to the Asylum, not only from the Regimental Medical Officer, but from any Detachment, Garrison, or General Hospital, where the Patient may have been under treatment.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22274182_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
