The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-16 00:00:00

DEPARTMENTAL ORDERS.

SCTTARl,undermentionedsilos (steamers)
having been named for the conveyance of rick from Bala-
',lava to Scutari, and the Inspector• General of Hospitals at
head-quarten having nominated the officers named u
permanent medical staff on board each wool, these
officers are warned to hold themselves in read;ness to

embark on board their respective vessels, for the duty re•
tarred to:

Melbourne.—Second-class Staff Surgeon Rutherford;
Assistant Staff Surgeons Lane and Sheehy.
Australian.—Second-class Staff Surgeon Moorhead; As-
I Blatant Staff Surgeon Ancell.
Sydney.—Secund-clau Staff Surgeon Donn it ; Assistant
Staff Surgeon Hooper.
Brandon.—Second clue Staff Surgeon Wishart ; Assist-
ant Staff Surgeon Palilogna.
The Inspector-General at head-quarters has requested
the principal medical officer "to impress on the officers
in charge the necessity there is of their being vigilant in
the discharge of their duty in every respect." " They will
see that the sick are properly put up, their food of good
quality and properly cooked, and that they receive any
medical comfort which may be ordered for them ; they will
pay attention to the cleanliness and proper ventilation of
the skip." In this respect strict attention must be given
to the detailed instructions laid down in her Nejtsty's regu-
lations.

The medic.l officers will be furnished with medical jour-
nals, printed monthly and weekly states, as well as Forms
Noe. 1 and 2, for medical comforts, which will be carefully
examined in the arrival of each vessel, to see that the ex-
penditure of medical comforts corresponds to the entries in
the medical journals. Each staff surgeon, 21 class, must
provide himself with a case of capital instruments, his own
property, but a medicine chest, and such medical 'nd surgi-
cal appliances as may be deemed necessary by the medical
officer in charge, and approved by the principal medical
officer, will be supplied from the apothecaries' store, as well
as a complete equipment of purveyors' stores and an omple
supply of medical comforts. Amongst the purveyors stores
• slipper bath will be included if pouible.
Each transport carrying sick or wounded front Ealaklara
to Scutari will be visited by a staff surgeon of the first clau,
as soon as possible after the arrival of the vessel, before the
sick or wounded be landed.

This medical officer will make a written report to the
principal medical officer of the state he found the sick
and wounded in, and whether in his opinion due attention
had been paid to them during the voyage. Until further
orders first-clue Staff Surgeon M'Oregor will attend to
this duty.

THE SYSTEM AT SCITTARI.—The medical officers
at Scutari would be in due proportion to the number of
patients if their duties were strictly professional ; but a false
system saddles army surgeons with most of the business of a
hospital establishment. The principal medical officer at Scu-
tari has hardly time to look at any of the cum in hospital.
His administrative duties absorb ail his time and energies.
Ilia great professional experience ought to be brought fully
to bear on the thousand interesting, rare, and difficult cases
now in hospital. The staff-surgeons even are much occu-
pied with extraneous duties, looking after pots and paw,
the cleaning of the wards, the conduct of the orderlies ; so
that, like their chiefs, they have not the time to give the
fall benefit of their matured professional experience to the
patients. The junior lima are the real surgeons; the
seniors may perform the operations, but what are such
duties to the much more important after treatment ? The
duties now discharged by the senior military medical
officers must, 1 should think, soon throw them out of prac-
ties, and destroy that nice professional tact which ought
always to he conspicuous. I merely hazard there remarks,
rum haying seen but little of army —Correspondent of the
Medical Mises and Gazette.
"

LINT-mAxilio, for the wounded French soldiers,
his superseded needlework u an occupation in all the com-
munal girls' schools in France. This change has been made
by superior order. The moral effect of the employment, it
need hardly be said, has been more regarded in this measure
than the material product expected, considerable as the
MOW 9I this must bc,

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