Regulations for the Medical Department of Her Majesty's Army : War Office, 1st November, 1878.

  • Great Britain. Army Medical Department
Date:
1878
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Credit: Regulations for the Medical Department of Her Majesty's Army : War Office, 1st November, 1878. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART 7.—GENERAL REGULATIONS. I. Correspondence. II. Sick Leave and Leave of Absence of Medical Ofacers, and Eeports of arrival and departure. III. Medical Certificates, and Medical Boards. IV. Supply of Stationery, W-O. Forms, and Books, v. Disposal of useless Books and Records. Ofllcial letters. Signatures to letters, &c. Principal ]\Iedicnl Omcer's responsibility. Letters to Director General, liow to be adclreseccl and transmitted. Numbers and dates to be quoted. SECTION I.-CORRESPONDENCE. 752. Official letters will contaiu full information of all par- ticulars upon the subject to wMdi they relate. Each letter will refer to one subject only, and will be wiitten, when practicable, on foolscap paper, a half to quarter margin being left on the inner side of each page. The paragraphs will be numbered, and the enclosiu-es (if any) described in the margin or on a separate schedule, half a sheet of paper only being used when the letter or other document does not extend over the first page. 753. Signatures to all letters, accounts, and documents, will be wi-itten in a clear, legible character, and the official designa- tion of the person signing will be stated; the station and date \vill also be invariably given. 754. Principal Medical Officers will be responsible for the con-ectness of what is set forth in documents submitted by them. It is their duty to endeavour to adjust all matters that come Avithin the scope of their authority; and in transmitting cor- respondence to the Director General of the Ai-my Medical De- partment they will follow the instructions contained m para- graph 39 of these Kegulations. 755. Letters and apphcations from Medical Oliicers in- tended for the Dh-ector General will be transmitted to him through their immediate superiors. 756. All letters and documents intended for the Du-ector General wUl be addressed on the envelope to The Under Secre- tary of State for War, War Office, Pall Mall, London S.W. with the words Army Medical Department on the left hand ^°^^57 In all rephes to communications received, the number as well as the date and purport of the letter answered, will be quoted.
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