Calendar: 1855-1856 Page 167

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 103 the surgical cases The instruments and surgical apparatus shall be in his charge and he shall make Monthly Report of their condition to the Medical Committee He shall superintend the necessary preparations for and be present at all operations He shall give early notice of all important operations to the medical officers by filling up and transmit- ting the printed forms prepared for that purpose If the House Surgeon is by any cause prevented from attending to his duties he shall provide substitute approved by the Surgeons of the Hospital Operations -The area of the theatre shall be reserved for the medical officers including those resident the in-patient dressers and such visitors as are specially introduced by the operating surgeon The first row of the theatre shall be re- served for the remaining dressers and the clinical clerks Post-mortem Examinations -The inspection of medical case shall be conducted by the physician's assistant of surgical case by the house surgeon in the presence and under the direction of the physician or surgeon under whom the case shall have been admitted The In-Patient Clinical Clerk of the physician or the Dressers of the surgeon whose case may be under inspection shall alone be in the area of the theatre during the examination Midwifery -Pupils who have previously attended Course of Lectures are provided with large number of cases of Mid- wifery The patients are attended at their own houses in the neighbourhood of the Hospital under the superintendence of the Physician Accoucheur and Physician's Assistant