Calendar: 1861-1862 Page 211

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 211 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 temporarily to his duties he shall provide sub- stitute approved by the Surgeons of the Hospital Assistant House Surgeon -The examination for this officer is the same as that required for the office of House Surgeon This officer will not reside in the Hospital His duties are To supply the place of the Resident House Surgeon during his necessary absence and to assist him when required To make chemical and microscopical examinations to enter in the Hospital post-mortem book the most important particulars of the case during life including the descrip- tion of the post-mortem and to be responsible for all instruments and apparatus entrusted to his care To attend in the Out-Patient department at one o'clock daily to occupy separate desk and see such patients as are allotted to him by the Surgeon in attendance to take charge of the instruments in the Out-Patient department and to superintend the dressing and instruct the Out-Patient dressers in their duties Also to see that the Surgery is kept in good order Candidates for this office must have been Dressers to the In or Out-Patients Such Assistant House Surgeons as shall have performed their duties to the satisfaction of the Committee of Management and the Council during six months shall if otherwise eligible be considered as having cateris paribus claim to be elected to the office of House Surgeon in preference to all Students except those who have served the office of In-Patient Dresser prior to the Winter Session of 1856-57 Pathological Registrar -The duties of this Office are To see that due notice of the time of holding each post- mortem Examination be posted at the Hospital and College ο