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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    to oversee the duties of the hospital attendants and that they arc properly performing their respective work, to report dereliction of duty among the employes to the surgeon in charge, to issue supplies to the attendants, to supervise the cleansing of wards and outbuildings, and to preserve order in and about the buildings and grounds. siwciai duties. 6o. It shall be the special duty of hospital-stewards to procure the subsistence and other supplies as directed by the surgeon in charge, to keep a record, by weight or measure, of all the stores received, and also of the stores issued each day to the cook or patients; to compound and dispense such medicines as may be prescribed by the med- ical officer in charge, and to visit the wards daily in com- pany with the medical officer at sick-call to receive his orders, unless otherwise ordered. accouiuk kept 6i. Hospital-stewards shall keep such accounts and rcc- by stewards. ords pertaining to the management of the Service as they may be directed to do by the surgeon in charge, and, unless otherwise ordered, at the discretion of the medical officer in charge, shall keep the following accounts and books; Property return. Monthly report of subsistence. Inventory of patients’ effects. Record of subsistence and other supplies. Inventory of furniture. Inventory of medical supplies. Record of liquors consumed. Record of letters and papers sent. Record of letters and papers received. HOSPITAL ATTENDANTS. Appointment. 62. At marine hospitals, attendants will be authorized as the necessities of the Service require, and will be nom- inated by the surgeon in charge of the station, subject to the approval of the Department. iiiforiiiiition 6^. When submitting nominations for appointment to roportoii in’nomi-subordinate positions, medical officers will forward to tmiions. Surgeon-General the following information : Name, age, place of birth of nominee, the State from whence appointed, and record of service, if any, in the Army or Navy during the war of the rebellion. I’r.'rorcncoof (3_^ Persons honorably discharged from the military in military or na-or naval scrvice by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness inciirred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointment, provided they are found to possess the capacity and physical ability necessary foi the proper discharge of the duties of hospital attendants,