Medicine and the public / by S. Squire Sprigge.

  • Squire Sprigge
Date:
1905
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Credit: Medicine and the public / by S. Squire Sprigge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mittee of experts to inquire into, and report upon, the steps needed to effect the following objects :— 1. The establishment of the staff of officers and orderlies of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and its equipment on a scale sufficient to enable it to dis¬ charge adequately the duties ordinarily cast upon it in times of peace, and by the smaller wars in which the Empire, by its vast extent, is so frequently engaged. 2. Regulations and provisions which will enable surgeons and trained orderlies in sufficient numbers to be rapidly obtained and added to the ordinary staff of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the event of a great war; and that will also ensure a rapid supply of all hospital and other equipment required for the due care of the sick and wounded in such a war. 3. The attraction to the Royal Army Medical Corps of a sufficient and regular supply of officers of good professional attainments. And the improve¬ ment of the position of the officers by the allowance of sufficient holidays, and by provisions enabling them to become adequately acquainted with the advancements in medical and surgical science, and the necessity of employing in the higher posts men selected for their merits rather than by seniority. 4. The employment to a greater extent than that recognised and practised until the later stages of this war of nurses in fixed hospitals for the care of the wounded and of fever and dysenteric patients, and such others as can properly be nursed by females. 5. The appointment of properly qualified officers
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