Instructions for the naval hospitals on foreign stations.

  • Ministry of Defence
Date:
1842
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Instructions for the naval hospitals on foreign stations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ay 6. Art. 4. No. 2. You are to supply Bedding and Necessaries from the Service Afloat Stores to the Surgeons of Her Majesty’s Ships, upon receiving demands from them, to complete the proportions to the established scale, which demands are to be made in the manner, and at the periods, laid down in their instructions, and to be upon the form (properly approved) as per margin, No. 7. App. , •' . , , , , , Service Atioat. observing particularly that the articles which have been longest in store are to be first issued; and you are to take credit for such supplies in the book before-mentioned, making out there- from at the end of each quarter of a year, an Account in the same form, to show the several Receipts and Issues, with the remains at the close of that period, which Account, with the demands of the Surgeons, properly receipted as vouchers to the issues and the Invoices, with the dates, and showing by what conveyance the stores were received, regularly certified as vouchers to the receipts, and also a Return of the unser- viceable articles, are, after you have subscribed the Declaration, to be delivered to the Deputy Inspector. You are to deliver to that Officer at the same time a Demand, in the form as per margin, for what may be required to complete the proportions, &c., established for the station, taking care that in the event of there being at any time a surplus of stores for the Service Afloat, and a deficiency of those for the Hospital, or vice vend, you are without fail to consult the Deputy Inspector on the propriety of transferring such quantities as may be advisable from one service to the other, in lieu of demanding fresh stores, and to this point your attention is at all times to be particularly directed. When- ever Medicines or Stores are ordered to be supplied, whether by the Surgeon and Medical Storekeeper, or yourself, for other departments or services, correct Invoices, in the forms as per Invoices, margin, are to be put into each chest, and you are to super- intend the shipment, and to make out Bills of Lading in duplicate, in the annexed form, which are to be signed by the No. 4 No. 3. No. 58. No. 59.
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