Instructions for medical officers of the United States Navy.

  • United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Instructions for medical officers of the United States Navy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    When any assistant surgeon was absent from the United States, on duty, at the time when others of his date were examined, he shall, if not rejected at a subsequent examination, be entitled to the same rank with them; and if, from any cause, his relative rank cannot be assigned to him, he shall retain his original position on the register. (Act 3 March, 1835.) The President may designate among the surgeons in the service, and appoint to every fleet or squadron an experienced and intelligent surgeon, who shall be denominated surgeon of the fleet, and shall be surgeon of the flag-ship. (Act 24 May, 1828.) The surgeon of the fleet shall, in addition to his duties as surgeon of the flag-ship, examine and approve all requisitions for medical and hospital stores for the squadron or fleet, and inspect their quality. He shall, in difficult cases, consult with the surgeons of the several ships, and he shall make, and transmit to the Navy Department, records of the character and treatment of disease in the squadron or fleet. (Act 24 May, 1828.) A surgeon, assistant surgeon, or passed assistant surgeon, may be ■detailed as assistant to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. (Act 16 July, 1872.) The Secretary of the Navy may appoint, for temporary service, such acting assistant surgeons as the exigencies of the service may require, who shall receive the compensation of assistant surgeons. (Act 15 July, 1870; 3 March, 1865.) The officers of vessels of the United States must, in all cases, be citizens of the United States. (Act 28 June, 1864.) Any staff officer of the Navy who has performed the duty of a chief of a Bureau of the Navy Department for a full term shall there- after be exempt from sea duty, except in time of war. (Act 3 March, 1871.) RETIRED OFFICERS. When any officer of the Navy has been forty years in the service of the United States he may be retired from active service by the President upon his own application. (Act 3 August, 1861.)