Merchant shipping medical scales : scales of medicines and medicines stories for merchant vessels / issued by the Board of Trade under sections 200 and 300 of the Merchant Shipping Act. 1894.

Date:: 1953

Credit: Merchant shipping medical scales : scales of medicines and medicines stories for merchant vessels / issued by the Board of Trade under sections 200 and 300 of the Merchant Shipping Act. 1894. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$aN ELLE G, {« “Ge LIBRARY : \ , NOTE 1. When the ear Scales were issued in 1931 they were related to the 1914 issue of the British Pharmacopoeia and the 1923 issue of the British Pharmaceutical Codex. _New issues of the British Pharmacopoeia in 1932 and of the British Pharmaceutical Codex in 1934 necessitated a reprint of the Medical Scales, 1931, to accord with the new issues and minor-alterations were incorporated in the reprint which was issued in 1936. The effect of the war upon the supply of certain drugs and medicines has entailed a further review of the Scales and the Ministry of War Transport has adopted the recommendations made by the Therapeutic Requirements Committee of the Medical Research Council. These “‘ war-time ’’ amendments are indicated separately in Appendix F. Other amendments have also been pip PA ae in the present reprint. 2. These Scales comprise three separate Scales and supersede all previous issues. 3. Scale I applies to all ships which are required by law to carry doctors. It replaces Scales I and II as issued in 1929 and the principal points in which it differs from them are set out below. 4. Scale I is based on the recommendations of a Board of Trade Departmental Committee including representatives of the Board of Trade, the Ministry of Health, the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, the Shipping Federation Limited, the Liverpool Steamship Owners’ Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Physicians, and the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. The following are the principal points in which this Scale differs from the 1929 Scales :— (i) In the 1929 edition, Scales I and II were applicable to ships required by law to carry doctors, Scale I being for. North Atlantic passenger ships only and Scale II for other passenger ships. This distinction has now been abolished, and Scale I applies to all ships required by law to carry doctors. (ii) The former classification of ships according to the numbers on board has been altered, the dividing lines being drawn at 100, 250, 500 and 1,000, instead of 250, 500, 750 and 1,000. The column for ships having on board less than 100 persons is applicable only to emigrant ships ; any other kind of ship having less than 100 persons on board can, of course, use Scale II. If such a ship carries a doctor, the owners may find it desirable to supplement that Scale, which is only intended for use by a layman ; and in that event Scale I for less than 100 persons may prove a useful guide. (iii) The quantities of drugs, dressings and appliances to be carried are fixed by reference to a unit length of voyage of 30 days in place of the unit of 100 days in Scale II, 1929. The criterion of the length of voyage will be that given in the Emigrant Ship (Voyage Scales) Notice, 1923, see Appendix D.$