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 WAR DEPARTMENT, 
 
 Richmond, Va. 
 
 March 26, 1862. 
 
 I. Tin' following Regulations are adopted in place of Medical Regula- 
 tions, paragraphs - t" «>. inclusive, and General Regulations, paragraphs 
 ll. r ,l to 1 165, inclusive, and will be obeyed accordingly: 
 
 1. An army corps or military department will have a medical offi- 
 ssigned as Medical Director, who will have the general control 
 of tin- medical officers and hospital. 
 
 '2. A. division will have a medical officer assigned, ©u the recom- 
 mendation of the Medical Director, as Chief Surgeon; or tho senior 
 medical officer of the division, on the same recommendation, will be 
 
 regimental duty, and placed in general charge as Chief 
 
 Surgeon of Division. 
 
 ;'.. A brigade will bo under tho general medical charge of the Se- 
 nior Surgeon of Brigade, who will not be relieved from regimental 
 duty. 
 
 4. Medical Directors, Chief Surgeons of Divisions, and Senior 
 
 Surgeons of Brigades will insj t (he hospitals of their commands, 
 
 and see that the Holes and Regulations aro enforced, and the duties 
 of the Sin I Assistant Surgeons are properly performed. 
 
 5. They will examine the Case Rooks, Prescription and Diet 
 s, and ascertain the nature of diseases which may have pre- 
 vail d, and their probable causes; recommend the best method of 
 prevention, and also make such suggestions relative to the situation, 
 construction and economy of the hospitals, and to the police of tho 
 camps, as may appeal for the benefit and comfort of tho 
 
 Sick, and the feud of the service. 
 
 6. Senior Surgeons of Brigades will i monthly reports 
 of sick and wounded ( form 1), required from the medical officers, 
 and transmit them through the Chief Surgeon of Division to tho 
 Medical Director. 
 
7. The Medical Director will make to the Surgeon General n con- 
 solidated monthly report of 1 1 1 - ■ Bid ami wounded, from the monthly 
 reports of the medical officers of the command. 
 
 8. Chief Surgeons of Divisions and Senior Snrgeons of Brigade* 
 will see that the quarterly reports of sick and wounded, and monthly 
 Statements of hospital fund, required from the medical officers, are 
 transmitted to the Surgeon General. 
 
 9. Senior Surgeons of Brigades will make to the Chief Surgeons 
 of Divisions, and Chief Surgeons of Divisions will make to the 
 Medical Director monthly returns of the medical officers of thoir 
 
 • commands. (Form 2.) 
 
 10. The Medical Director will make to the Surgeon General a 
 monthly return of the medical officers of the command. 
 
 II. Medical Officers, heretofore styled Medical Directors, who do not 
 come within the meaning of the first of the above Regulations, will he de- 
 signated, as the case may he, in accordance with the second or third re- 
 gulation ; and medical officers, heretofore called Brigade Surgeons, if 
 not attached to regiments, will be assigned to regiments not provided with 
 Surgeons. 
 
 GEO. W. RANDOLPH, 
 
 Secretary of War. 
 
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