as a Patient. And
all Men employed about the Hospital ought to be reviewed once a Week
by the Military Inspector, and likewise whenever a Party of
Convalescents is going to join the Army, or their Regiments; that no
Man may be allowed to remain with the Hospital, after he is fit to do
Duty in his Regiment.

[163] In the _French_ Hospitals there are always a Number of
Men who attend their Sick who belong to the Hospital, so that
they have no Occasion to employ their Convalescents, as we
are often obliged to do, where the Sick are attended by
Nurses, who are commonly Soldiers Wives, and not so capable
of doing such laborious Work as the Men.

When the Military Inspector is absent, the eldest Officer on
convalescent Duty ought to act in his Place.

Every Officer sent on convalescent Duty ought, as soon as he arrives
at the Place where the Hospital is, to wait on the Commandant, or
Military Inspector; to acquaint him of his Arrival, and to receive his
Commands. He ought then to go to the Purveyor or Commissary's Office,
to get a List of all the Soldiers who are in or about the Hospital,
and belong to the Regiment or Brigade he is employed for, wherein
those on Billet are distinguished from those in Hospitals. The next
Day he ought to parade all those marked on Billet, to see if the
Number of Men agrees with the List given him, and to examine in what
State each Man is, and how he is employed; and then he ought to go
round the Hospitals, attended by an orderly Serjeant, to see all the
Men in the Hospitals, and to know if the List given him at the
Purveyor's Office was right; and afterwards he ought to send every Day
a Serjeant or Corporal to see the Men in Hospitals, and to report to
him when any Men are discharged or die.--And he ought to procure from
the Military Inspector a Return of all the Men of his Corps, who are
either admitted into, or discharged from Hospitals, on the Days when
such Returns are made. He ought to make all his Men on Billet appear
regularly on the Parade at Roll-calling, and to oblige them to keep
themselves clean and their Arms in good Order, and to endeavour to
preserve the same Regularity and Discipline as when they are with
their Regiments. And whenever a Party is to be sent to join their
Regiments, he ought to have all his Men particularly examined; and
those Men who are found to be perfectly recovered, should be sent to
their Regiments.

If every Officer on convales