(a)To each police hospital a constable will be attached as Diet Sarkar. His chief duty will be to keep up under the medical officer's orders register A (B. P. Form No. 197) and he will fill in columns 1 to 6 of Form B (B. P. Form No. 198).(b)The diet shall be distributed through the cook. The Diet Sarkar shall keep in register a daily account of the articles required for consumption. For this purpose he shall first fill in the upper portion of the register showing the class of diet prescribed for each patient in his bed-head ticket and sum up the total of each class. He shall then calculate, according to the prescribed scale, by filling in the memorandum at foot, the quantity of each articles required, viz., rice, dal, etc. A copy of the daily requirements thus prepared shall be given to the contractor for supply. The diet register shall be printed in duplicate and machine numbered and the contractor's copy shall be made by the carbon process. After supply the contractor's copy will be returned with a certificate by the Sub-Assistant Surgeon that the articles were received in good condition. The contractor's monthly bill will be based on a summation of these certified copies.(c)After the close of the month the Diet Sarkar will ascertain from the bed-head tickets the number of days for which hospital diet was supplied to each officer above the rank of Assistant Sub-Inspector and calculate the total number of days each patient was dieted in the hospital. The statement in Form "B" will then be filled accordingly.(d)A certificate shall be added to each diet bill under the signature of the Sub-Assistant Surgeon that he has satisfied himself that the quantities of the diet articles billed for are not in excess of those actually required by the prescriptions entered on the bed-head tickets.(e)The statement in Form B together with the contractor's bill after being checked from the register certified to by the Sub-Assistant Surgeon and passed by the Civil Surgeon or medical officer-in-charge, will be forwarded to the Superintendent's office at the close of each month.
