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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$A complete statement of the senice of any Soldier so transferred from his Corps to a General Hospital should be sent to the Governor or Commandant, together with the fullest information that can be obtained relative to his place of settle- ment and nearest of kin. XL—Medical ATt'E'ijlil'ii'i'i^ ox Sick SottoiEiis of other '(] ttirv/ iQqjjpcj j^^q Sick Sailors. Medical Officers ar^ under the sanction of the Governor Sick Soldiers in General Hospitals or of their Commanding Officers, to ^^^g^^^^g^^J^j^ take medical care of, and if necessary, to receive into General or Regimental Hospitals, any Soldiers or Sailors of H. M. S. who may be on Sick Furlough, or too far detached from their respective Regiments or Ships to be attended by their own Medical Officers. Soldiers or Sailors, whilst on Ordinary Furlough, are entitled to Medical treatment by Military Medical Officers, and may be received into Military Hospitals, subject, in the case of Soldiers, to the usual stoppage. ■jji'i.iiiir., jd/ buM7'j(i v^iiiil.-- Viii-; iii; All.—|^EDiG-(!i,?t Attendance . ON. Sick' Women ,.aj^ri \,., j/nWr. wf'' Children. ;, Where Hospital accommodation is provided for me sick Medieiaes and Wives and Children of Soldiers, they are to receive Hospital Attendance for diets as long as they are in Hospital. V: '^'^^•?^^ The Wives, Children, and Servants of^ 5fficers, and the ll^dfo^officeiV W ives and Children of Soldiers, are allowed medicine from Servants, the Chest, and jNIedical Officers are to visit and prescribe for them accordingly. Xni.—Medical Attendance on Staff Officers, Office-keepers, Orderlies, Labourers, &c. 1. Medical attendance and medicines are allowed for the ^ledical Aid for Staff Officers who pay and superintend the Out-Pensioners, ^^taff.Officers of and for the Non-commissioned Officers employed on the said staff, as well as for their families, in the saji^e vfay as for Officers and Non-commissioned Officers on the General Staff. 2. All. Clerks, Office-keepers, Orderlies, permanent La-Clerks, &c. bourers, and persons permanently employed in the Military and Civil Departments of the Army, their wives, families, and domestic servants, are to be considered entitled to professional attendance from the Medical Officers in charge of the Troops, and to Medicines from the Public Stores, provided their places of residence shall be within one mile of the Staff Dispensary or Hospital; the attendance, &c., however, to be extended to such children only as are under fourteen years of age; and it should be clearly understood that Medical attendance cannot be claimed for the wives of those holding the above appointments in cases of parturition, unless in$

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