Books, reports, and returns.
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Third year.—They will perform the duties of clinical clerks, operate under the
supervision of the teaching staff and conduct post mortem examina-
tions. They will be trained in testing milk and judging meat.
Yearly ex-
amination.
66. A vivd voce examination is held yearly. A student who fails to
qualify at a yearly examination will be instructed for another year in
the same class when, if he again fails to pass, he will be remanded to his
corps.
Students
who may be
allowed to
remain at
the college.
67. Students who, while failing to qualify at the final examination,
obtain 25 per cent of the marks in each subject and 35 per cent. in the
aggregate, and students who are specially recommended by the Principal,
may be allowed to continue their studies at the college for another
year.
Graduates.
68. The names of soldiers who pass the final examination will be
published in Command Orders.
Text books.
69. Text books will be given to soldiers. The value of text books
supplied to a dresser of the remount department will, on his appointment
as salutri or veterinary assistant, be recovered, departmentally, by five
equal monthly deductions from his pay.
Books, reports, and returns.
Book
70. The following books and orders will be supplied to station
veterinary hospitals and will be entered in a register :—
Chief hospitals.
1.
2
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
India Army Orders.
Command Orders.
A. R. I., Vols. I, II,* III, VIII,* X, XI.
Field Service Regulations.
Field Service Manual, Veterinary.*
Horses and Stables (Fitzwygram).*
Veterinary Pharmacopœia (Tuson).*
British Pharmacopœia.*
* Will also be supplied to branch hospitals.
Records.
71. The following records will be kept up by officers in charge of
station hospitals and by the O. C. a mountain battery and the Viceroy's
bodyguard :—
(1)
(2)
(3)
Register of sick and lame animals,
Record of treatment .
Veterinary history sheets .
I. A. F. V 1758.
I. A. F. Z 2067.
I. A. F. V 1752.
They must always accompany the corps—in the case of (3) the
animal, concerned. The veterinary history sheets of the animals of a
corps which are treated in a station veterinary hospital will be made
out in the first instance by the O. C. the corps and handed over to
the veterinary officer who will keep them in the hospital in a portfolio
(I. A. F. Z 2025).
Reports and
returns.
72. The reports and returns to be rendered by veterinary officers are
laid down in I. A. F. Z 2000. Instructions as to their preparation are,
as a rule, given on the forms.
Receipt of
medal.
73. A report will be made to the Director-General, A. V. D., through
the proper channel, by a veterinary officer who receives a medal or decora-
tion, or who is honourably mentioned.
Reports to
be com-
municated to
O. C. station
and I. V. O.
74. The O. C. the station will be informed of any report or sugges-
tion made by the veterinary officer in charge of a unit to the I. V. O.,
referring to the health of the horses, sanitary condition of the locality in
which they are placed, or departmental discipline. Copies of similar
reports by the O. C. a unit to the O. C. the station will be furnished to
the I. V. O.
Sick
reports.
75. When a veterinary officer is placed on the sick list the O. C. the
station, and, when he is taken off, the officer himself, will report the fact
at once to the I. V. O. The illness, its probable duration, and arrange-
ments made for the performance of duties will be stated.
Arrival
reports,
officers.
76. A veterinary officer will report his first arrival in India to the
P. V. O. direct. The I. V. O. will report to the P. V. O. the arrival of
a veterinary officer in, and his departure from a Command.