Regulations for the duties of inspectors-general and deputy inspectors-general of hospitals : for the duties of staff and regimental medical officers : for the organization of general, regimental, and field hospitals : and for the duties of officers, attendants, and nurses : for sanitary measures, and precautions for preserving the health of the troops : for the duties of sanitary officers attached to armies : and for drawing up sanitary and medical statistics and reports.

  • Great Britain. Army Medical Services.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Regulations for the duties of inspectors-general and deputy inspectors-general of hospitals : for the duties of staff and regimental medical officers : for the organization of general, regimental, and field hospitals : and for the duties of officers, attendants, and nurses : for sanitary measures, and precautions for preserving the health of the troops : for the duties of sanitary officers attached to armies : and for drawing up sanitary and medical statistics and reports. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    and water, under the special direction of the Surgeon. Rugs, blankets, &c, in fine weather, are, after being beaten and shaken, to be hung out or spread in the sun. 12. The duties of the Hospital Sentries in all Hospitals, Hospital General and Regimental, are, not to admit any person except Sentries. the Medical Officer, the Chaplain, the Officers of the Regiment in Hospital, the persons employed in the Hospital, and visitors at the fixed visiting hours, who must be provided with a pass from the Medical Officer. The sentry must prevent liquor or any other article being carried into the Hospital without the Surgeon's permission, and he must not allow any patient to go beyond the prescribed boundaries without a ticket of leave from the attending Surgeon. No venereal patient is to be indulged with such ticket. 13. Medical Officers are to be guided by the Diet Table, Diet of the Sick- page 60, as to the kind and quantity of food for the sick. Medical Officers should frequently inspect the diets imme- diately after the issue thereof. A fair copy of the Diet Table is to be pasted on a board, and hung up in a conspicuous place in every ward of the Hospital. 14. The Diet Rolls are to be filled up daily, ordinary diets Diet Rolls, for the following day, extras and drinks for the day of issue, and hung in a conspicuous place in the wards, and the initial letter indicating the diet is to be marked on the patient's ticket by the prescribing Medical Officer. The totals of each roll are to be specified in figures by the Assistant Steward, he being responsible to the Purveyor for the accuracy of the said totals. 15. An abstract of the diets, extras, drinks, &c, will be Abstract of punctually sent to the Purveyor on the 1st and 16th of each Diets month. 16. For the purpose of checking the stoppages, a list of List for Stop the names, and numbers, and regiments of the men who have Pag-S- been treated in Hospital during the month, with the dates of their admission and discharge, will be made out by the steward, certified by the Medical Officer, and forwarded to the Purveyor (see Form, p. 227). 17. In all Regimental Hospitals, a proportion of beef juice, Extras to be wine, spirits, arrowroot, sago, sugar, and tea, shall be kept on kept on hand. hand, and placed in charge of the Assistant Steward for emergencies, the same to be given on the order of the pre- scribing Medical Officer, and accounted for to the Purveyor to whom the signature of the prescribing Officer shall be a sufficient voucher. d2