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INDENTS AND VOUCHERS.
[SECT. XIII.
FORM B.
ABSTRACT or Detailed Statement of Stationery required for the use of the
Medical Department for the year 18
—
H o s p i t a l o f — R e g i m e n t .
H o s p i t a l o f — R e g i m e n t .
H o s p i t a l o f — R e g i m e n t .
H o s p i t a l o f — R e g i m e n t .
H o s p i t a l o f — R e g i m e n t . H o s p i t a l o f — R e g i m e n t .
H o s p i t a l o f — R e g i m e n t .
H o s p i t a l o f — R e g i m e n t .
T o t a l .
Annual Supplies.
Royal ...
... quires.
Medium
... do.
Demy ...
... do.
Foolscap
... do.
Kings-arm
... do.
Twine, Bengal ... skeins.
Indian Rubber ...
oz.
Black-lead pencils. No.
Drawing pencils
do.
Colored Cotton-
thread.
... skeins.
Cotton, twisted, for
stitching books. oz.
Cotton-thread, Eu-
rope, for stitching
papers.
... balls.
Quadrennially.
Pen-knives, Desk... No.
Qninquennially.
Slates ...
. . . No.
Scissors
...
do.
Steel drawing-
pens ...
... do.
Octennially.
Hones ...
... No.
Strop ...
... do.
Decennially.
Ink-stand, wooden,
complete
... No.
Rulers, round ...
do.
SECT. XIII.] INDENTS AND VOUCHERS. 15
38. Indents on Ordnance Departments.— I n d r a w i n g s u p p l i e s o f
Coal-tar, &c., from the Ordnance Department, the following form of indent
is to be adhered to—
FORM.
Indent on the Commissary of Ordnance __________
for the delivery
of the following articles for the use of the__________
Articles.
Annual
Allotment.
Quantity
Indented
for.
For what purpose.
required.
Admitted and
ordered to be
supplied.
Tar Coal.
For sanitary purposes,
agreeably to Circular
Order No. 30 of 16th
July 1867.
Station.
Date. Signature.
(Approved)_______
Inspector General, Medical Department.
SECTION XIV.
MEDICAL BOARDS AND CERTIFICATES.
I,--British Medical Service.
I I . —I n d i a n Me d i c a l De p a r t me n t .
1. MEDICAL OFFICERS TO BE MEMBERS ONLY OF DEPARTMENTAL O
R
PROFESSIONAL BOARDS.—Medical officers are not to be nominated Members of
any Boards, except such as are purely professional or departmental.
G. 0. C. C., No.
132 of 1868.
(a) Professional Boards to be considered all
" Medical Boards on Officers or Soldiers."
(b)
Sanitary Boards, when matters influencing or likely to influence the
health of the troops or community are concerned, and on which a medical
opinion only is required.
(c)
Boards for examination of Medical subordinates, prior to promotion
to a higher grade.
Departmental Boards mean—
Boards for the survey of medicines and surgical equipments.
2. MEDICAL BOARD TO CONSIST OF THREE MEMBERS.—All these Boards
are to be composed exclusively of medical officers, and are to consist of a
President and two members under all circumstances.
3. BOARDS OF SURVEY.—Boards of Survey on hospital bedding, clothing
and utensils, on hospital diets and wines, although considered departmental,
may be composed of Medical and Military officers, indifferently.
4. BOARDS FOR EXAMINATION OF SOLDIERS, &c.—Boards to examine as to
the fitness or otherwise of soldiers for re-engagement, are purely " profes-
sional." At stations where there are two or more regiments, these Boards
should be presided over by a Medical officer of a regiment other than that to
which the soldier belongs. If, however, there be only one regiment at the
station, the Medical officers of the regiment are themselves to constitute a
Board, sign the re-engagement certificate, and furnish to the Commanding
SECT. XIV.]
MEDICAL BOARDS AND CERTIFICATES.
17
Officer a written statement, detailing their opinion as to the man's health,
muscular development, age, &c., and in case of rejection a full explanation of
their reasons ; and this statement they should all sign, and attach to the
re-engagement form.
5. MILITARY OFFICERS TO SURVEY BARRACK SUPPLIES, RATIONS, &c.—Boards
of survey on barrack furniture, soldiers rations, and canteen supplies, are to
be composed of Military officers exclusively. If the opinion of a Medical
officer is required, one should be detailed to attend the Board, (Regimentally,
or from the Brigade Office), who will give his opinion either vivâ voce or in
writing ; this opinion, if in writing, to be attached to the proceedings of the
Board.
6 . C A N T O N M E N T C O M M I T T E E S . — A ne
x c e p t i o nt
o
t h e s e
r u l e s
i s
made
in
favour of Cantonment committees, at which the Principal Medical Officers of
the British and Indian Forces will attend as Members.
7. SPECIAL SANITARY COMMITTEES.—These rules do not affect the composi-
tion of special Sanitary committees appointed by Government or the Com-
mander-in-Chief.
8. BOARDS HOW TO BE FORMED.—Military officers of the British or Indian
Services, who require leave of absence on medical certificate, must appear
before a Medical Board. An exception is made in the case of officers of the
British Army requiring leave of absence for periods of less than four months.
In such cases leave may be granted on the recommendation of the Inspector
General, British Medical Service. Boards for officers of the British Service
are to be composed of Medical officers of the British Establishment, and those
for Indian officers are to be composed of Medical officers of the Indian Medical
Department. British officers holding staff appointments in India, who desire
to retain their appointments while absent on leave, must appear before the
Indian Medical Board.
British. Medical Service.
9. MEDICAL CERTIFICATE.—The following Form of Medical Certificate
to Military Officers is to be adhered to :—
FORM OF MEDICAL CERTIFICATE
of the
having applied for a Certificate, on which to ground an application for _Leave of
Absence,
I do hereby certify that I have carefully examined this officer, and find
that*
and that in consequence thereof I conceive him to be incapable of military duty.
* The nature of the disease, wound, &c., is to be here fully stated, and the .perio
d during which the officer has suffered under its effects.
VOL. II.
C
Regiment
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MEDICAL BOARDS AND CERTIFICATES.
[SECT. XIV
I further declare my belief that he will not be able to resume his duties in a
less period than†
Dated at
this
day of
Signature of the Medical Officer
FORMS OF PROCEEDINGS OF MEDICAL BOARDS.
On an Officer applying for sick leave.
PROCEEDINGS of a BOARD Of MEDICAL OFFICERS asssembled by order of
To examine and report on the state of
Regiment.
President.
Members.
The Board having carefully examined lids officer, find that he has been suffer-
ing from : further, that there is no probability of his speedy recovery
in this country.
The Board therefore recommend that this officer be granted leave, to England,
for the purpose of appearing before a Medical Board, and, on medical grounds,
that he proceed by the overland route (or Cape as the case may be) Captain.—— 's
health (does or does not as the case may be) admit of his doing duty with troops
on the voyage.
President.
} Members.
10. PROCEEDINGS IN QUADRUPLICATE. —The Proceedings of every Medical
Board on a sick officer, who is recommended to leave a command, must be sent
in quadruplicate to the Inspector General British Medical Service, who, after
approving or disapproving of the same, will transmit the Proceedings in
duplicate to the Adjutant General for submission to the Commander-in-Chief.
The other two copies of the Proceedings, together with a detailed statement
of the officer's case, are to be sent by the Principal Medical Officer to the
Director General, Army Medical Department.
1 1 . D U P L I C A T E P R O C E E D I N G S W H E N O F F I C E R R E M A I N S I NINDIA.—Proceed-
ings of Boards on officers who may be recommended for leave in India are
not required to be forwarded to the Army Medical Department in England;
they are retained for the information of the local authorities. Duplicate
copies only are required in such cases.
† The Medical officer is here to state, candidly and explicitly, his opinion as to the
PERIOD which will probably elapse before the officer will be able to undertake his military
duties. When there is no reason to expect a recovery, or when the prospect of recovery
is distant and uncertain, it must be stated.
SECT. XIV.]
MEDICAL BOARDS AND CERTIFICATES.
19
No. 5 (BRITISH REGULATIONS.)
12. Wounded Officers.— On a Wounded Officer where he received his
Wound.
Proceedings of a .Medical Board assembled by order of
to examine and report upon the state of
President.
Members.
The Board having met and carefully examined
find that this officer labours under a
As there is no prospect of this officer being soon efficient for duty, the Board beg
to recommend that he receive leave of absence to for the
recovery of his health.
President.
Members,
13. These Proceedings of the Board must be sent in quadruplicate to
the Inspector General, British Medical Service, who, after approving or dis-
approving of the same, will transmit the Proceedings in duplicate to the officer
who orders the Board. The other two copies of the Proceedings, together with
a detailed statement of the officer's case, are also required to be sent by the
Inspector General to the Army Medical Department in England.
14. When an officer is examined in India for wounds, and is not recom-
mended to return to England, the same number of copies of the Proceedings of
the Board on his health is required, as in cases of officers who do return to
that country.
15. No other certificate is required at the Office of the Army Medical
Department, except the Proceedings of the Board held in the command (vide
No. 5), and upon which the wounded officer was sent home..
No. 7.
On a Wounded Officer applying for Compensation on the spot.
PROCEEDINGS of a BOARD of MEDICAL OFFICERS, Certificates, &c., relative to
wounded in action on the
18 .
Place
Date
We do declare upon our honour, that we have duly and impartially inquired
into the case of who appeared before this Board, and accord-
ing to the true spirit and meaning of Her Majesty' s Orders and Regulations, and
the instructions issued by Her Majesty's Order on this head.
We find that the abovenamed officer (here give particular description of the
wound)
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We do further declare upon our honour, that we consider the injury received
in action with the enemy on the to be (severe, dangerous,
or slight, as the case may be), and that a period of
will be required for his recovery.
No. 8.
CERTIFICATE of the SURGEON, to be attached to Proceeding (No. 7).
of Her
Majesty's received a wound in action
with the enemy at on the
(A minute description of the wound and its probable result to be given here).
Surgeon.
No. 9.
CERTIFICATE of the COMMANDING OFFICER to be attached to Proceeding (No. 7)
This is to certify, that of
was wounded
in action with the enemy at
on the
No. 10
.
CERTIFICATE of the OFFICER applying for COMPENSATION, to be attached to
Proceeding (No. 7).
I declare, upon my honour, that I have not received, or elsewhere applied for
any gratuity or allowance in consideration of my wound, received in action at
on
the
(Signed)
16. The Proceedings and certificates, according to Form Nos. 7, 8, 9, and
10, (British Army regulations) are each required in duplicate, with a Medical
Report of the case by the Medical officer attending. Should leave also be
required to England, a copy of the usual proceedings, according to Form No. 5,
is also necessary in addition to the above.
G. O C. C. No. 9
6
of 1867.
G. O. G.G., No. 2,468
of 1869, Fin. Dept
.
17. MEDICAL BOARDS.—When an officer below the rank of Surgeon-
Major is President of a Medical Board at an out-station,
the candidate for a medical certificate will be required
to appear before another Board of British Medical Officers at the port of
embarkation. Officers serving in British Burmab, and having their medical
certificate confirmed by a Medical Board in Rangoon
of which the administrative Medical Officer of the Circle
is the President, are not required to appear before another Medical Board
in India.
SECT. XIV.]
MEDICAL BOARDS AND CERTIFICATES.
21
18. EMERGENT CERTIFICATES.—The Senior Medical Officer, or where there
may be only one, the Medical Officer of the station is empowered to grant
an emergent certificate, in urgent cases, so as to allow sick officers to leave
the station at once, either to embark for England, or to go to the Hills, as
the case may be, with the permission of the Commanding Officer, and in
anticipation of the sanction of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief.
19.
ROUTE TO BE NAMED IN PROCEEDINGS.—In the Proceedings of Medical
Boards recommending British Officers to proceed to Eng-
land, on account of ill health, the route by which officers
are to proceed is to be invariably specified as on medical
grounds.
20.
SALE OF COMMISSIONS.—Officers applying for permission to sell their
commissions will, if serving with their regiment, be required to produce a
certificate from the Medical Officer in charge of the regiment, or if not so
serving, from a Military Medical Officer on full or half-pay, not under the rank
of Surgeon, in which certificate such Medical Officer shall be required to
certify, in his own handwriting, that he has carefully examined the applicant,
and that he is in a good state of health.
21. Should the officer not be in good health, the examining Medical Officer
should substitute for this certificate a brief description of the disease or
disability, adding his opinion as to whether it does or does not threaten early
dissolution.
22. In this case a period of six weeks, from the date of the application to
sell, must elapse, before the retiring officer shall be entitled to receive the
value of his commission, and should he not live so long, the sale will be
cancelled.
Indian Medical Department.
23. Sick Officers.—All sick officers for whose recovery change of
climate, whether to places beyond or within the limits of the Presidency may
be recommended, will be required to appear for examination before a Board of
Medical Officers. At the Presidency and at all out-stations, where practica-
ble, a Board of three Medical Officers shall be appointed for the purpose of
Confirming, extending, and when necessary cancelling medical certificates to
officers, and none will be permitted to quit their stations until they have been
examined by such Board, before which, the officers' medical attendants are
always to appear for the purpose of affording information on each case.
24.
CONSTITUTION OF MEDICAL BOARDS.—At the Presidency, the Deputy
Inspector General Indian Medical Department, and two Medical Officers
selected from the Standing Medical Committee, will form a Board; and at other
B. M. S. Cir. No. 23
of 1867.
G. O. C. C., No. 89
of 1867.
MEDICAL BOARDS AND CERTIFICATES.
[SECT. XIV.
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stations the three senior Medical Officers of the Indian Department will be
nominated for the duty. When it does not interfere with their other duties,
Civil Surgeons are to be considered available as members of Boards if there is
not a sufficient number of Medical Officers without them.
(a.) At stations where there may be only two Medical Officers besides
the one who has charge of a patient, the Commanding Officer shall constitute
them a Board for the above purpose ; and should there be a difference of opinion
upon the case, the recommendation of the officer's medical attendant will be
sufficient to decide, that a sick certificate shall be confirmed or not.
( b .) At stations where there is but one Medical Officer, he may grant
sick certificates, but in every such case, as also when a certificate is granted
under the provisions of clause a the patient is to be informed that he will
be required to appear for examination before a Board of Medical Officers at the
Presidency, or other convenient station on his route, at which a Board of three
members can be convened ; and with a view to obviate unnecessary delay or
inconvenience to the patient, the Officer Commanding the station from which
the sick officer is proceeding, will communicate with the Officer Commanding
such station, where the necessary steps will be taken to assemble the Board
upon the sick officer's arrival.
25.
BOARDS ON MEDICAL OFFICERS.—The proceedings on Medical Officers,
which are to be prepared separately, are to be forwarded to the Inspector
General, Indian Medical Department.
26.
DUTIES OF MEDICAL BOARDS.—( a ) Boards of Medical Officers are to
confirm, and where necessary, grant sick certificates to officers whom they
may recommend to proceed to places within the Presidency, as well as either
" preparatory" or "final" sick certificates to officers whom they may recom-
mend to proceed to Europe, to sea, Egypt, the Cape of Good Hope, to places
eastward of the Cape, or to the other Presidencies ; such " preparatory" or
"final" certificates may recommend the patient to proceed for embarkation to
any out-port or station, or to the Presidency, as may be considered most
beneficial and convenient.
( b .) In general, in cases of officers proceeding to Europe from stations
far removed from the port of embarkation or frontier of this Presidency, it
will be advisable to grant " preparatory" certificates to the proposed port of
embarkation, or to the station nearest to it, or to the frontier, at which a
Board can be assembled for the purpose of granting a final certificate.
( c.) Officers under "final" certificate from out-stations, who proceed to
Fort St. George or Bombay, for the purpose of embarking for Europe, to sea,
&c., will be subject, should the Inspector General deem it advisable, to re-
SECT. XIV.]
MEDICAL BOARDS AND CERTIFICATES.
23
examination by the permanent Board of Medical Officers at Madras and
Bombay. Final certificates, recommending embarkation at an out-port, or
departure from a frontier station, are not to be subjected to revision by
another Board at such out-port, Presidency, or station, except under provision
of the preceding clause. Officers in British Burmah, who are passed by a
Medical Board at Rangoon, are not required to appear before another Board.
(d.) A Medical Officer granting a certificate, recommending a change
of residence or climate, is required distinctly to state, in the written case accom-
panying the patient, his opinion as to the course which ought to be ultimately
pursued; and he is prohibited from giving any verbal opinion or advice on this
point, that is not fully noticed in the case ; such verbal opinions being only
calculated to deceive the patient, and to mislead or perplex the succeeding
attendant.
27. FORM OF PROCEEDINGS.—The following form of proceedings is to be
adopted by Boards of Medical Officers, and will include one or more cases, accord-
ing to the number of officers to be examined. When medical certificates are
confirmed, it will be sufficient to state the circumstance as briefly as possible ;
but in cases in which there may be a difference of opinion between the officer
who grants a certificate and a Board, whether at the same or any other station,
the reasons for not confirming the certificate are to be fully recorded.
FORM.
Proceedings of a Board of Medical Officers assembled by order of —
under the provisions of Section XIII of the General Regulations, for the
purpose of enquiring into, and reporting on, the state of health of Captain
of the — Regiment — (or Department).
(Station and Date.)
PRESIDENT.
MEMBERS.
Surgeon
of the
Captain
's medical attendant is present.
The Board having carefully considered the case, and examined the patient;
confirm the sick certificate to Captain
granted by Surgeon
: or,
do not confirm the certificate to Captain
granted by Surgeon —
for the following reasons :
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MEDICAL BOARDS AND CERTIFICATES.
[SECT. XIV.
Captain————is fit (or unfit) to do duty with troops on the homeward
voyage.
Signed ———— President.
Cir. No. 1024 of
1867.
2 8 . C O P Y O F C A S E T O B E S E N T T O I N S P E C T O R G E N E R A L F O RRECORD.—Copies
of proceedings of Medical Boards are not required in
the office of the Inspector General, Indian Medical
Department, except in the case of Medical Cfficers of the Indian Depart-
ment. But a copy of the medical case of all sick officers of the Indian Army
is invariably to be forwarded, and at the end of it is to be written the
medical certificate recommending leave. Deputy Inspectors General in
forwarding cases, are to note at the foot of the certificate, " confirmed by a
Board of Medical Officers" (or not confirmed as the case may be). The names
of the Medical Officers composing the Board are also to be entered.
Dis. of S. of State
No. 12 of 31st Jany.
1867.
29. REPORTS ON PERSONS OF INTEMPERATE HABITS.—In the cases of officers
who may have injured their health by habits of intemper-
ance, Medical Boards are prohibited from recommending
leave for a definite period. Leave should be granted
merely to England, leaving the Medical Board attached to the India office to
report on the case to the Secretary of State for India.
30. WOUNDED OFFICERS.—The attention of Medical Boards, reporting on
wounds received by officers in action, is called to a specification of their
duties as prescribed by G. G. O., No. 434, dated 13th July 1852.
31. The Royal Warrant now in force, is that published in G. G. O.,
No. 797, dated 7th September 1861. "Medical Committees assembled to
examine Wounded Officers shall not offer any opinion as to the amount of
gratuity or pension which should be assigned to such officers."
G. 0. C. C. I., 23rd
May 1864.
The duty of Medical Boards is to record full information as to
the nature and extent of the injury sustained, the degree
of recovery, whether entire or partial, that may have
taken place ; the probable effects of the injury, the probable permanency
or otherwise of such effects ; and generally such explanation as will enable the
Commander-in-Chief to recommend, and Government to assign, a suitable
amount of compensation.
32. It is desirable, that in decisions as to the nature and extent of
injuries, the phraseology of the regulations, so far as may be possible, be
strictly adhered to by Medical Boards,