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Attendance on chargers.
latter. When British mounted units or non-silladar cavalry are
about to move from a station where no V. O. is located, the O. C. a
unit will take steps to ensure being provided with the necessary
medicines and instruments.
Attendance on chargers.
Free at-
tendance
on chargers.
42. If a V. O. is present at a station on duty, he will, within
the limits of the station, when requested, treat, supply medicine
to, and advise regarding bonâ fide registered sick chargers of officers of
any corps or branch of the service (including Volunteer Corps). It rests
with him to decide whether an animal should be sent to the S. V. H.
He will only attend a charger outside the station in a case of urgency
and if his travelling expenses are defrayed by the owner. No animal,
the property of an officer, other than a bonâ fide registered charger, will
be admitted into a hospital or supplied with government medicines.
Veterinary
opinion
without
fees on
proposed
charger.
43. The officer in veterinary charge of a remount depôt will furnish
an officer selecting a charger therefrom with a written opinion on its
soundness. In other cases the officer purchasing a horse for use as a
bonâ fide registered charger may send it to a S. V. H. for the written
opinion of the V. O. in charge.
Instruction.
Training of regimental establishments.
Veterinary
training of
farriers.
44. In order that the forge establishments of British mounted corps
may be instructed and practised in practical hospital matters, the O. C.
a station at which there is a V. O. will bring them on a roster for weekly
duty in the. S. V. H. as hospital orderlies. The forge establishments
of non-silladar cavalry regiments are likewise to be instructed in practical
hospital matters by the V. O., or failing that, by the U. L. subordinate
of the hospital. During a tour of duty they will be under the orders of
the officer in charge S. V. H.
Courses of
instructions.
45 Courses of three months' duration for the instruction of veteri-
nary dressers for sappers and miners, infantry and pioneers will be
held at S. V. Hs. having a V. O. in charge. The courses will be
assembled under the orders of G. Os. C. Dns. as required, preference
being given to candidates from sappers and miners and pioneer
units, and from infantry battalions having machine guns on charge.
Veterinary
instruction
of officers
and others.
46. The officers (including attached officers) and forge establish-
ments of corps in charge of a V. O. will receive elementary instruction
from the latter in first-aid treatment of simple injuries and diseases
of horses.
Farrier
pupils.
47. Four European or East Indian lads, preferably the sons of soldiers,
who are between fifteen and seventeen years of age, medically fit, able
to read and write English, work simple sums and speak Hindustani will
be enrolled as farrier pupils in the 26th, 27th and 28th Light Cavalry,
respectively. They will, for the first two years, be placed under the
orders of the V. O., who will instruct them and examine them half-
yearly. A pupil of undesirable character will be brought before the
G. O. C. for discharge at any time during the first two years. Similar
measures will be taken for the discharge of a pupil who, on completion
of two years' service, is not competent to perform the duties of a
farrier.
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