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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![Voyage Scales, the length should be the estimated length of the outward voyage plus a sufficient margin for deviation or delay. It is suggested, however, that owners will doubtless find it advantageous, in view of the high cost of drugs abroad and possible variations in the standards of quality, that vessels regularly employed on particular services should be stocked in this country for the round voyage. (iv) The list of drugs, dressings, and appliances, has been completely revised with a view to bringing it up to date and at the same time has been simplified by the omission of drugs which are no longer regarded as necessary or are not likely to be required in ordinary circumstances on board ship. Certain instruments are now required to be of rustless and stainless metal throughout ; and all drugs, dressings and appliances are required to conform to the standards of the current issue of the British Pharmacopoeia or of the British Pharmaceutical Codex, in cases where such standards are applicable. (v) Filters have been discarded as a means of purifying water and provision made instead for purification by chlorination, a suitable quantity of stabilised chloride of lime of approved quality being included in the Scale. Directions for the use of this material will*be found in the latest edition of the Ship Captain’s Medical Guide. (vi) The list of medical comforts (invalid diet) has been simplified by the omission of such articles as extract of meat and semolina, which are now generally carried as part of the ordinary stores. 5. Scales II and III were made in 1929 on the recommendation of an informal Committee consisting of representatives of the Board of Trade, the Ministry of Health, the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, the Liverpool Steamship Owners’ Associ- ation and the Shipping Federation Limited ; the Scales came into full operation on the Ist July, 1930. Scale II applies to all ships trading between the United Kingdom and ports abroad, other than the ships to which Scale I and Scale III apply. Scale III applies to ships which are not required to carry doctors and which are employed in trading between the United Kingdom and ports abroad within the limits of Narvik to Corunna and the Baltic Sea south of the line from Hernosand to Wasa. 6. Medicines, instruments and dressings which have previously been passed as conforming to the Scales in force at the time will not be rejected under the present Scales, so long as they remain in good condition. All renewals, however, must comply with the current Scales. 7. Wherever an instrument or an appliance of a particular type is specified in the Scales, another type may be accepted if it is shown to be at least equally efficient. 8. A notice issued by the Board of Trade on the Medical] Equipment of Coasting Vessels is reprinted on page 35. 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32173283_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
