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Regulations & Instructions - 1808
Relating to His majesty's service at sea.
Section VIII - Chapter IV
Sending Sick Men from the Ship for Cure.
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| Article I |
| SICK Men are never to be sent from the Ship to which they belong for cure, either to an Hospital, an Hospital Ship, or sick quarters, unless their wounds or diseases be each as to make it dangerous to others or to themselves to be kept in the Ship, or the number of sick and wounded be so great, as to prevent their receiving proper attention on board.
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In what cases men are to be sent from the Ship. |
| Article II |
| An Officer, accompanied by the Surgeon or one of his assistants, is always to go with sick men who are sent from the Ship, to see that they are properly received at the Hospital, or sick quarters, and that they are conveyed thither with as little inconvenience as possible.
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An Officer with the Surgeon or one of his assistants always to go with the sick men. |
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| Article III |
| When a man is sent to an Hospital or sick quarters for cure, a sick ticket signed by the signing Officers and Surgeon is to be sent with him, in which his original entry, number and rating on the Muster-book, a description o1 his person, his ago, &c. and all charges which appear against him on the Ship's books are to be inserted, according to the form, (N'. 30) at the Back of which ticket the Surgeon is to specify the Nature of his disease or hurt. The man is to take with him his clothes and bedding, an inventory of which is to be made out at the back of the ticket, and signed by the Officer who goes with him to the hospital, who is to see them delivered to the person appointed 2o receive them, 4y whom they are to be carefully kept; in order to their being returned to the man when be shall be discharged from the Hospital. On the ticket is also to be noted whether be has been victualled on board his Ship on the day on which his ticket is dated,
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Sick tickets to be sent with the men to the Hospital or sick quarters ; form of this ticket ; clothes and bedding to be taken with the sick. |
| Article IV |
| The sick ticket, being a document by which the man -may receive his pay, is to be delivered by the Officer conducting the sick to the Agent of the hospital, who is not on any account to part with it, until the man, shall die,' or shall lave the Hospital;, if he die or desert, it is to be transmitted to the Commissioners, of the Navy - if, he be, discharged unserviceable, it is to be delivered to him, with a certificate of his discharge annexed to it; but if he be discharged to any of His Majesty's Ships, it is to be given to the Officer with whom he is sent on board, that at a proper time he may receive his Pay.
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Sick tickets to be delivered to the Agent of the Hospital.
In case of death or desertion to be transmitted to the Commissioners of the Navy. |
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| Article V |
| An Officer is never to be sent to an Hospital, to an Hospital Ship, or to sick quarters for cure, except in cases of urgency, without the Commander in Chief, or the senior Officer present, having signified his approbation on the sick ticket, which he is never to do, without being perfectly satisfied that the health of the Officer requires it; but if, notwithstanding such approbation, the Physician and Surgeon of the Hospital, Hospital Ship, or Sick Quarters, shall be of opinion that he ought not to have been sent, they are to receive him and immediately represent their opinion, with their reasons for it, to the Commander in Chief or senior Officer present.
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An Officer never to be sent to an Hospital &c. except in cases of urgency without the approbation of the Commander in Chief. |
| Article VI |
Commanders in Chief or the senior Officers in Ports where Hospitals or sick Quarters are established (except those Hospitals to which Captains are appointed Governors) are frequently to direct the Captains under their Command to visit them, to enquire into the conduct of the Medical Attendants and to inspect the state of the men, their lodging clothes, boding, food, &c. which they are to report to the Officer from whom they received their orders, particularly specifying whether the Persons of the sick, their apartments, clothes and bedding are clean, their food good, and their Nurses attentive.
They are to attend to the complaints of the Patients, if they have any to make, and to redress immediately such as may admit of their redressing them, but if they observe any material neglect or mismanagement they are to represent it to the Officer under whose orders they act. When the other duties of his station will admit of it, the Commander in Chief or senior Officer present is occasionally to visit the Hospital himself. |
Commanders in Chief to direct the Captain to visit the Hospitals, and to enquire into the conduct of the medical attendants &c.
They are to attend to any complaints the Patients may have to make. |
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| Article VII |
| The Captain of a Ship which has men at an hospital or at sick quarters, is to send an Officer on the discharging days to receive such men as may be recovered, except at Hospitals, where some regular mode of conveying recovered men to their Ships is established ; and he is to receive from the Agent en account of all the men, belonging to the Ship who are dead, discharged, run, or otherwise disposed of, that the circumstances relating to them may be properly noted on the Ship's books. When Marines are sent on shore sick and do not return to their Ships, a D. S. is to be placed against their names.
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Captains send an Officer on discharging days to receive such men as are recovered.
And to take an account of such as are dead, discharged, run, &c. |
| Article VIII |
| Every Captain is to receive such recovered men as the Agent of an hospital, or any Agent of the Commissioners for sick and Wounded Seamen shall send to him, to whatever Ship they may belong ; but should he consider any of them to be unserviceable, he is to make application for their being surveyed, and not refuse to receive them unless he be immediately going to Sea, and the folding a survey impracticable without detaining the Ship, in which case, the reasons for refusing them shall he stated in writing, signed by himself, and the Surgeons of the Ship, and sent to the Agent of the hospital.
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Captains to receive such men as the Agent of an Hospital shall send to them. If he think them unserviceable to apply for their being surveyed ; or state in writing his reasons for refusing them. |
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| Article IX |
When men are cured at any Hospital or sick quarters, they are to be returned to the Ship to which they belong, if she be at the Port ; and when, in consequence of her being absent, they are sent on board another Ship, the Captain of that Ship is not to enter them as part of her complement except he receive an express order to do so, but he is to bear them on a list of Supernumeraries for Victuals and is to return them to their proper Ship; whenever he meets her, but if the complement of that Ship shall then be complete he is to enter them in the Ship, he commands, if her complement be not complete, but if it be, he is to discharge them into any of His Majesty's Ships which may be in want of men. In whatever Ship such men shall be entered as part of the complement, they ere to be borne on that Ship's Books for wages from the time of their discharge from the Hospital.
On his receiving recovered supernumeraries from an hospital, he is to give particular directions for their being berthed in a dry comfortable part of the Ship, that they be well provided with clothing and bedding, and that they be put into regular established messes until such time as they can be discharged to their respective Ships, or otherwise disposed of.
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Men when cured to be returned to the Ship to which they belong.
If she be absent how they are to be disposed of.
To give particular directions for recovered Supernumeraries being provided with clothing and bedding &c. |
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| Article X |
| If any man sent to an Hospital or sick quarters shall not return to his Ship in twenty-eight days from the time of his being sent (except when sent to an Hospital or to sick quarters on a Foreign Station), the Captain is to direct a D. S. Q. to beset against hisname, which will be a stop to the payment of his wages until he shall return to his Ship, or shall be otherwise properly disposed of.
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If men sent to sick quarters do not return in twenty eight days the Captain is to direct a D.S.Q. to be set against their names. |
| Article XI |
| Slop Clothes arc not to be issued to any man, during his continuance at any Hospital or sick quarters in tire United kingdom, unless they shall be absolutely necessary ; nor when necessary, op any Foreign Station, if it he possible to obtain them from the Ship he belongs to. Whenever there shall be a necessity for their being issued, an account of them is to be sent with him on his discharge ticket to tire Ship which receives him, and they are to be charged against his wares on the bunks of the first Ship, in which he shall be borne as pact of the complement.
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Slop Clothes not to be issued to any man during his continuance in sick quarters unless absolutely necessary. |
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| Article XII |
| If there shall at any time be an absolute necessity for
sending sick or wounded, men on shore in any Foreign Port where there is not a Naval Hospital nor any person appointed by the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded
Seamen to take care of them, the Captain, if the Ship be alone, or the Commander in Chief or the senior Officer present, is, if circumstances will admit of it, to order tents to be made, for their reception, of the old sails of the Ships, and to appoint the surgeons best qualified in the Squadron to attend them ; and if other articles of food than those supplied to the Squadron shall be necessary for their diet he is to contract for their being supplied, or to order the Purser of the Ship he is on board to purchase them as, according to circumstances, may be best calculated to procure them of a proper quality, and with the least expence to government. But if circumstances shall make the raising of tents and the attendance of the Surgeons impracticable, the Commander in Chief or the senior Officer present is to contract with some proper person to supply the sick with lodgings and provisions, and is to appoint some well qualified medical man or surgeon of the place to attend them, who shall be allowed a specified sum according to circumstances for each man for medicines and attendants. He is to be furnished with the form (No. 31) agreeably to which he is to keep his accounts, and he is to be informed that he will be required to make oath to the correctness of them. The sick men are to be seat to him with the usual sick tickets, which he is never to deliver to them, but is to send them to the Captain of the Ship into which they may be discharged, and he is to receive from tie Captain a certificate of the day on which the men are sent on board. But if any man shall die or desert, he is to note the day of his death or desertion on his sick ticker., and send it by the first safe opportunity to the Commissioners of the Navy. Whenever sick men shall be so sent do shore, the senior Officer in the Port is very frequently to direct the Captains with their Surgeons to muster them and to see that they are properly taken care of, and that they are not kept on shore after being sufficiently recovered to return to their Ships : and he is very carefully to examine the accounts of the Surgeon and Contractor at the usual times of their being send home, and as circumstances may require to certify their -correctness, or to point out those parts to which he shall see cause for objecting, without which their accounts shill not be passed at the Sick and Wounded Board.
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How to proceed in a Foreign Port when it shall be necessary to send sick or wounded men on shore. |
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| Article XIII |
| When the corpse of a man who may have died on board shall be sent to an Hospital for interment, a certificate from the Captain, stating the circumstances attending the man's decease, shall be sent with the corpse.
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Certificates from the Captain to be sent on shore with the corpse of any man dying on board. |
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