Volume 1

Report of the Surgeon-General of the Army to the Secretary of War for the fiscal year ending.

  • Surgeon General of the United States Army
Date:
[1800s-1952?]
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Credit: Report of the Surgeon-General of the Army to the Secretary of War for the fiscal year ending. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    wide, comiectiug the main buildinj^- with the bath house; this enables ^ patients to pass to and from their batlis without exposure to the weather. It is aframebuihling, ornamental in appearance, and harmoniznig witli the other structures. Nearly all the rooms in the building have been papered or calcimiued this year and the wards painted inside. The work on the hospital grounds has been suspended this year foi lack of ai)i)ropriation, except so much as was necessary to protect the work already done. The boundary wall alonu- the street front requires an extension of 180 feet to complete it; and also coping and iron railing similar to the work already finished along the front. There are also some sidewalk concreting and brick gutters required to complete the work on the plan originally laid down, and necessary to protect the surface already finished from damage by heavy rains. Estimates for -j these purposes have been already forwarded. The large reservoir, capacity 250,000 gallons, mentioned in the report of last year, has been constructed on the reservation by the Interior i Department; it receives all the hot water issuing from springs below the level of the bath houses aud which formerly ran to waste. The total flow of the hot springs has been estimated lately by an engineer officer of the U. S. Navy at 1,250,000 gallons a day. The num- ber of bath tubs supplied in the various bath houses is 409. not includ- ino- this hospital, aud there is also a free Government bath house m charge of the Interior Department, with three large bathing tanks, in which about 500 baths are given daily. It was intended that all the • bath houses should be supplied by the pump from this reservoir, but as it is found that they get a sufficient supply for the summer season by natural flow from springs above their level, the pump is not m opera- tion and mav not be required even next winter. It was expected that the hospital would be authorized to draw its water su])ply from this source aud save the expense of pumping, but it seems now as if it would have to continue drawing from its own spring and operating its own pump. The access to the springs is by a dark And inconvenient passage, under a bath house, as stated in the report of last year. Representation has been made to the War and Interior Departments, and it is hoped the matter will be remedied. HOSPITAL COBPS. Under the Army Regulations governing the allotment of Hospital Corps members, the number demanded by the distribution of troops of the line, the arsenals, engineer stations, West Poiut, recruiting depots, aud other independent commands, is as follows: 145 Hospital stewards ^qq Acting hospital stewards ^(3q Pri vates There are now in service: .... 124 Hospital stewards 71 Acting liospital stewards 530 Privates Vacancies exist lor : I-tospital stewards 29 Acting liospital stewards , :_ ;,0 ]'ri vates '.'./.'*.....-'. 10 ' Fivrhospital stewards were trie<l by general court-martial ^ov x-<yv\on^ oflenses, 1 being sentenced to dishonorable discharge from the Army.