placed on the eligible list the applicant must pass the prescribed examinations, as follows:

(a) Physical qualifications.—A statement of her physical condition will be filled out in her own handwriting and sworn to before a notary public. She will also submit a certificate of health from at least one reputable physician personally acquainted with the applicant. Blanks for these purposes will be furnished by the Surgeon General.

(b) Moral and professional qualifications.—The date of her graduation, the moral character of the applicant and her professional qualifications during her period of training and at date of graduation, and so far as known at the time of application, will be certified by the superintendent of nurses at the hospital from which she graduated. If she was trained under a former superintendent of nurses the indorsement of the latter is also desirable. Applicants must have graduated from a training school for nurses which gives a thorough professional education, both theoretical and practical, and which requires two years' residence in an acceptable hospital.

(c) Mental examination.—Applicants will be required to answer in writing certain practical questions prepared by the Surgeon General.

(d) Approved candidates will be placed on the eligible list for appointment as their services may be required.

(e) An applicant will not be placed on the eligible list unless she agrees to serve in the Army for at least three years.

APPOINTMENT AND DISCHARGE.

4. The appointments and discharges of nurses shall be made by the Surgeon General subject to approval of the Secretary of War.

(a) Nurses may be discharged from the service (1) at any time when their services are no longer needed, (2) at their own request, supported by good and sufficient reasons, and (3) for misconduct. Recommendation for the discharge of a nurse on account of misconduct will be submitted to the Surgeon General, with a report of the facts after careful investigation, of which she shall have due notice and at which she shall be given a fair opportunity to be heard in her own defense.

(b) The following form will be used in making appointments of nurses to the Army Nurse Corps:

ARMY NURSE CORPS,

WAR DEPARTMENT,
SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington,

With the approval of the Secretary of War,

is hereby appointed

190...

in the Nurse Corps

(female) under the act of Congress approved February 2, 1901, to date from 190..., and will enter upon her duties after taking the oath prescribed by section 1757 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

Surgeon General, U. S. Army.

(c) Upon honorable discharge from service the following indorsement will be placed on the appointment of the nurse:

190...

With the approval of the Secretary of War, honorably discharged from the Army Nurse Corps,

190...

U. S. Army.

The authority directing her discharge will be quoted.

ASSIGNMENTS AND DUTIES.

5. Army nurses will be assigned to duty at military hospitals under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army. At hospitals where there are two or more nurses serving one will be assigned to duty as chief. Nurses appointed will be required to serve wherever their services may be needed at home or abroad.

(a) The tour of duty without the limits of the United States will usually be at least two years.

(b) Nurses can not leave their stations except under orders or when granted a leave of absence.

(c) Nurses traveling under orders on transports will assist in the care of officers or enlisted men in need of their services when requested to do so by the attending surgeon.

(d) The families of officers are not entitled to the services of Army nurses except as provided in paragraph 11 (e).

(e) A nurse will not receive presents from patients nor from the relatives or friends of patients.

(ƒ) After appointment, unless otherwise ordered by the Surgeon General, a nurse will serve for at least three months in the United States, during which period she will be given special instruction in army nursing.

(g) When female nurses are required for service at a hospital the surgeon in charge will make application to the Sur

geon General, through the chief surgeon, for as many as may be needed, stating the circumstances and the necessities of the case.

(h) Should there be a surplus of nurses at any hospital the officer in charge will immediately report the fact to the chief surgeon, who will forward the report to the Surgeon General and ask for instructions. In the Division of the Philippines the chief surgeon will order surplus nurses to the United States, and direct them to report immediately on arrival in the States to the chief surgeon of the department, who will place them on temporary duty and request instructions from the Surgeon General.

(i) When a nurse is directed to proceed to her home for discharge she will be instructed to report immediately on arrival by letter to the Surgeon General.

(k) Every change in the status of nurses, such as arrival, departure, leaves of absence granted, orders given, death, etc., will be promptly reported to the Surgeon General through the chief surgeon by the officer in charge, giving Christian names and surnames in each instance. For this purpose information slips may be used.

TRANSFERS.

6. Transfers from one division or department to another will not be made, except by authority of the Surgeon General, but a chief surgeon may transfer nurses, should the exigencies of the service require it, from one hospital to another within his division or department.

(a) Transfers of nurses will be immediately reported to the Surgeon General, with a full statement of the circumstances in each case and a special efficiency report prepared by the chief nurse.

PAY.

7. The pay and allowances of nurses and reserve nurses when on active service shall be $40 per month when on duty in the United States, and $50 per month when without the limits of the United States.

(a) Chief nurses receive the same allowances as nurses. Their pay is regulated as follows: When assigned to duty as chief nurse at any hospital where two or more nurses are stationed they shall receive, in addition to pay as nurse, $5 per month; where five or more nurses are stationed the chief

nurse shall receive, in addition to pay as nurse, $10 per month; where ten or more nurses are stationed the chief nurse shall receive, in addition to pay as nurse, $25 per month. In no case shall a nurse be paid more than $75 per month.

(b) Nurses will be paid on monthly pay rolls to be furnished by the Pay Department prepared and properly certified by the officer under whom they may be serving, signed by the nurse, and forwarded either to the chief paymaster of the division or department or presented to the paymaster visiting the post for settlement. All payments to a nurse must be noted on her appointment.

(c) Discharged nurses will be paid on pay rolls prepared by the officer under whom they may be serving at the date of discharge. The pay accounts of nurses ordered home for discharge will be prepared in the Surgeon General's Office.

(d) When a nurse is under orders to leave her station or is granted a leave of absence the officer in charge of the hospital will indorse on her appointment the date of her departure, with date and source of order, date of last payment, and name of paymaster by whom paid. The date of return to duty will also be indorsed thereon.

TRANSPORTATION.

8. Before starting on a journey at public expense a nurse must receive a written order from proper authority together with a transportation request for her railway ticket and sleeping car or transport accommodations.

(a) When traveling under orders no delay in starting and no stop-over privileges are allowed.

(b) Nurses traveling under orders will be entitled to transportation, with sleeping car accommodations by rail and state rooms on boats, at public expense, under the regulations governing transportation for the Army. They will in all cases be entitled to transportation of 150 pounds of personal baggage. Transportation will be procured where practicable from officers of the Quartermaster's Department and in cases where not practicable nurses may pay their own travel fare and include the cost, not to exceed that of first class limited tickets from initial point to destination without stop-over privileges, in their expense accounts, which must bear certificate that they actually paid the amount as charged and be ac

companied by the original or a certified copy of orders upon which they were traveling.

(c) A nurse ordered home for discharge from service outside of the United States usually gets transportation to New York or to San Francisco. On arrival in either city she will proceed to the Army Building where on presentation of her travel order she will be furnished transportation to the point designated as her home, which hereafter must be fixed at the time of appointment.

(d) Travel to and from points beyond the limits of the United States and between island possessions in all cases where practicable will be by army transport.

(e) Transportation will not be furnished for any journey which a nurse may take while on leave of absence.

(f) When traveling under orders from competent authority where any enforced delay occurs from unavoidable causes a nurse may be allowed one dollar per day for lodging at stopover points en route, to be paid by the Quartermaster's Department.

(g) When expenses are incurred as above an itemized account, in duplicate, with date and place of incurrence of each item, will be prepared and attached to Blank No. 13, Quartermaster's Department, which must be properly filled out, signed by the nurse, and sworn to before a notary. The receipts on the blanks will also be signed by the nurse. When practicable to obtain them duplicate receipts for the items charged will be submitted. When it is impracticable to obtain receipts this fact should be so stated in the affidavit.

QUARTERS.

9. Nurses will be furnished quarters according to the accommodations available at each hospital, and where there are several nurses one room or wall tent will be provided as a common sitting room.

(a) Sheets, towels, pillow cases, table linen, and other washable articles will be furnished by the hospital for the nurses' use, to be washed as part of the hospital laundry.

SUBSISTENCE.

10. A nurse will receive one ration in kind per day, and when stationed on duty at places where rations can not be furnished she will receive commutation of rations at 75 cents per day.