Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889.

  • United States. Marine Hospital Service.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    23. Boards of examiners, in making reeommendations and in deeiding on the relative merit and fitness of sev- eral passed assistant or assistant surgeons examined foi promotion at any one time, will be governed by seniority, unless there are speeifie reasons for waiving it. Exaniiii tiUoiiR for proinotiuiu COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES. 24. The eompensation of medieal officers, when not fixed oraVo'™ by statute, will be fixed by the Secretary of the Treas- ury, at a uniform annual rate for each rank. Surgeons shall receive twenty-five hundred dollars per annum; passed assistant surgeons shall receive eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and assistant surgeons shall deceive sixteen hundred dollars per annum; and after five service an additional compensation of ten per centum croaso. on the annual salary for each five years’ service shall be allowed medieal officers above the rank of assistant sur- geons, but the maximum rate shall in no case exceed forty per centum. Officers who shall be placed on “waiting- orders” for more than two months shall not be entitled to the increased compensation herein specified during the time so placed. Officers placed on “waiting orders”-oniera for a period longer than two months shall receive seventy- five per centum of their annual pay of their respective ranks while so placed. 25. Medical officers serving at United vStates ^^S-rine Hospitals shall, when practicable, receive quarters, fuel, and lights. Quarters shall be assigned according to rank and according to the accommodations of the hospital. When a medical officer is serving at a post on active duty where there arc no “quarters” belonging to the Serv- ice, he shall approximately receive commutation for quarters at the same monthly rate allowed medical offi- cers of the Army of the same relative rank. When on duty on board a revenue cutter or quarantine vessel, or on detached service, or on waiting orders, officers will not be allowed commutation. The specific allowance will be, for surgeons, for four rooms, fuel, and lights, com- mutation fifty dollars a month; for jDassed assistant sur- geons, for three rooms, fuel, and lights, forty dollars a month; and for assistant surgeons, for two rooms, fuel, and lights, thirty dollars a month. UNIFORMS. 26. Medical officers will be required to procure the pre- Proscribed uni- scribed uniform of their rank, and shall wear the same