3
Hospitals.
located on the line of railway and animals of the civil department when
called on to do so.
P. M.
examina-
tion.
15. Veterinary officers will be afforded an opportunity of making a
post mortem examination of any horse which dies, or is destroyed, while
on the strength of a corps under their professional charge.
Pocket
cases.
16. Every veterinary officer will provide, and keep up at his own
expense, a pocket-case of instruments of the sealed pattern.
Veterinary
universal
chests to be
kept ready
for use.
17. The veterinary officer in charge of a hospital is responsible that
the veterinary universal chests which, though forming regimental mobil-
ization equipment, are kept in station hospitals in order to admit of
the turn-over of perishable articles, are at all times complete and ready
for use. These chests may, under the orders of the I. V. O., be used for
manœuvres ; otherwise they will not be used by the troops in peace.
On the conclusion of manœuvres they will be returned to the hospital
that supplied them and completed at once.
Hospitals.
Hospital
establish-
ments.
18. Station veterinary hospitals are classified as chief and branch
hospitals. The latter are attached to chief hospitals for administrative
purposes. Their subordinate establishments are as follows :—
Chief
hospital.
Branch
hospital.
British.
1 N. C. O. (U. L.)
{1
shoeing-smith 2
1 line orderly
.
1
clerk
.
1 farrier-sorgeant 3
1 shoeing-smith 4
Detailed by
O. C. sta-
tion from
mounted
corps at sta-
tion.
All
hospitals
Native.
Permanent—
1 bhisti
.
1 sweeper
.
2 syces per
G {
squadron.
1 syce
per
battery.
Temporary—
1 syce for 2 sick
animals.
Detailed by
O. C. sta-
tion 5 from
mounted
corps at
station.
Detailed by
O. C. unit.
Supervision
by O. C.
battery.
19. In a station where only one battery is quartered, the O. C. the
battery will, in the absence of a veterinary officer, supervise the duties of
the branch hospital.
Stop gap
arrange-
ments.
20. Should necessity arise the O. C. the station will detail regimental
establishments to carry on the duties of departmental establishments, but
the departmental farrier-sergeant will, in the absence of a veterinary officer,
be responsible for the treatment of animals and care of stores.
Permanent
native
servants
not to be
removed.
21. The permanent native establishment is under the orders of the
officer in charge of the hospital and will not be removed except by order
of the O. C. the station. Permanent syces must be able-bodied and in-
telligent. They will be trained in nursing sick animals and will only be
employed on hospital duties. If extra attendance is required as a tem-
porary measure, the veterinary officer in charge will apply to the O. C. the
unit concerned.
Animals of
certain
corps only
admitted
to station
hospitals.
22. Animals of British mounted troops, heavy batteries, and non-
silladar cavalry will be treated in station hospitals ; otherwise, the veterin-
ary treatment of animals is arranged for by the corps concerned. Serious
cases in British mountain batteries and the Viceroy's bodyguard may be
treated in station hospitals.
Treatment
of sick
horses.
23. Any horse requiring treatment will be sent to hospital with a
memorandum of its number and description. Horses are not to be
treated in the lines without reference to the veterinary officer. Horses not
admitted to hospital will be treated as out-patients in the lines by the
regimental farrier establishment according to the directions of the veterin-
ary officer. The head collar, watering bridle, head and heel-ropes,
clothing, brush, and curry-comb only, will accompany a horse on admis-
sion to hospital. The veterinary officer will decide on the food of all sick
horses, whether in hospital or out-patients, and will inform the O. C. of
the quantity and description to be supplied.
1 In Madras the native cavalry will furnish a proportion of the establishment.
2 The nalbands now employed in certain hospitals will be replaced by British shoeing-smiths as
vacancies occur.
3 He will perform his regimental duties in addition.
He will also be line orderly.
O. C. unit, in single battery station.
Of the total number one will be appointed jemadar syce.
B 2