Instructions for the Royal Naval Hospitals at Haslar and Plymouth.

  • Great Britain. Admiralty.
Date:
1834
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Instructions for the Royal Naval Hospitals at Haslar and Plymouth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Servants of the Hospital to be received as Patients when sick. Superannua- tion of Officers and Servants. Exceptions. Duty of receiv- ing Patients. Fit subjects to be received, al- though proper 23. When sickness or hurts shall prevent any of the Labourers, Nurses, Washerwomen, or other Servants of the Hospital, from performing their duty, they are to be received into the wards as Patients, and checked of half their pay, during the time they may continue sick, provided the same shall not ex- ceed thirty days; but such as remain sick beyond that time are to be checked of their whole pay while they may afterwards continue so. 24. If it shall appear to you, that any Officer, Clerk, or other person, on the establishment, from age, infirmity, or other cause, is incapable of performing the duties of his office, you are to represent the same to Us, in order that he may be super- annuated, or that such other directions may be given respecting him as the case may require ; observing, that no Labourer, Nurse, Washerwoman, or other Servant, is eligible to super- annuation under twenty years of successive service in the Hospital, unless such person shall have been discharged in consequence of a reduction in the establishment, or for some other satisfactory reason. These last mentioned persons will not, however, be entitled to superannuation unless they shall have been entered previous to 1st May, 1833. 25. You are to take care that the duty of receiving Patients, and the measures attendant thereon, be strictly attended to, as pre- scribed in the Instructions to the respective Officers hereunto annexed on that head. - 26. When men who may be sent from His Majesty’s Ships shall, in the opinion of one of the Physicians or Surgeons,