He was absent from duty until August 1898 while recovering from the effects of his wounds.
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James, Vol.1, p.65Ireland, p.142 As Hood's fleet worked its way to the Straits of Gibraltar and then northeast to the Ligurian Sea, a Spanish squadron cruised off Southern France, although it was forced to withdraw in June with substantial numbers of sailors absent from duty due to sickness.
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The public health system provides various avenues for institutionalized malpractice, wherein resources are leached. Staff misconduct is common, where staff members remain absent from duty, fail to run field operations, and divert vaccine for use in private facilities. This can result in the attachment of costs to services intended to be free.
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During this time he wrote a report on punishments within the navy, which was forwarded by his commander to the Admiralty. He recommended that fines to sailors absent from duty or incapable should be limited to forfeiting pay for the time they failed to carry out their duties, and this was adopted.Fitzgerald pp. 91–92 In February 1866 Surprise was visiting the Greek island of Santorini, which is part of the rim of a volcano.
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In one battalion, 70 percent of the men went absent from duty due to illness, while a Gurkha battalion was reduced from 750 men to 500. Many of the men were replaced in September 1942 by new drafts of personnel from elsewhere in the army. Meanwhile, he won few friends among the officer corps with his direct manner of dealing with fellow officers and superiors, along with eccentric personal habits. He would eat raw onions because he thought that they were healthy, scrub himself with a rubber brush instead of bathing, and greet visitors to his tent while completely naked.
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He remained at his post throughout the winter of 1851-52 and it was noted that throughout this service with the Light Division in the Crimea, he did not have a single day where he was absent from duty. In January 1855 he was appointed Deputy- Inspector-General, and was principal medical officer of the expeditionary force under Sir George Brown that attacked Kerch. General Codrington mentioned Alexander in his despatch of 18 March 1856, additionally he was mentioned in a response to an address from the House of Commons and he was also recommended by Dr Andrew Smith for promotion to the rank of Local-Inspector-General for service during the Crimean War.
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British security forces failed to intervene to protect the railway and in some cases took part in looting its assets.Letter from Arthur Kirby to Sir Henry Gurney, 7 April 1948, quoted in Sherman 2001, p. 228 In January 1948 the General Manager, Arthur Kirby, vainly pleaded with Sir Henry Gurney, Chief Secretary of the Mandate Government, for adequate armed protection for the railway and its 6,000 staff, otherwise they would cease to do their duty and "I cannot guarantee to keep the railways operating".Letter from Arthur Kirby to Sir Henry Gurney, 20 January 1948, quoted in Sherman 2001, p. 214 In February Kirby noted: > ...locomotives wrecked by mines have been repaired time and time again so > that most of them, though blown up several times, are still working after 28 > years of service – and working efficiently... We have no fewer than 50 > personnel of the train crews absent from duty, some in hospital, suffering > from the effects of having been interfered with while trying to perform > their duty.
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