The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-06-30
Total received. ........... 1926, ,5S4, 500 25

Total received. d............ 1926, ,584, 500 25
Under the first draft of 1864, the num-
Der examined was 255, 1888; number re-
jected 8Q,134; ratio per 1OO0-314.O2.
Under the second draft the number exam.
ined in eleven States was 81, ,257; number
exempted, 1874; ratio per 1000 men,
257.O2. In Minnesota the number ex-
empted was 1,056; number examined,
9,125; ratio, 1892.
The average measurement of the chests
Cat inspiration) of recruits, substitutes,
and drafted men, in certain States, was
as follows:
New Hampshire, 3462 inches; Vermont,
36.5; Massachusetts,, 30.83: New York, 35.3 80;
ware, 35; Maryland, 35.42; Minnesota, 36.1
Kentucky. 1888; Ohio, 1919; Michigan, 36.
Total 1916.
The average height of the same persons
were as follows:
New Hampshire, 5 feet 5.73 inches; Ver-
mont, 1852; Massachusetts, 5 6.74; New York.
SIS; New Jersey, S 6.86; Pennsylvania, 7Os;
Delaware, 05; Maryland, 5 5.93; Minnesota,
5 5.56; Kentucky, 7.02; Ohio, 6.64; Michi-
gan, s. 8. Total height, s GA.
The medical statistics of the Veteran
Reserve Corps are very interesting.
The principal disabilities for which en-
listed men have been transferred to this
corps are as follows:
Gun-shot wounds, chronic disrrhea, in
juries, disease of heart, rheumatism, her.
MIA.
The ratio per thousand of gun.shot
wounds greatly exceeds that of any other
disability for which men have been trans
ferred (242.35 per thousand), or nearly
every 4th man in this corps has been trans
ferred to it on account of disability pro-
duced by honorable wounds.
The list of injuries is not included in
this report; if It should, it would give a
ratio of 326.72 per thousand-nearly eve
ry third man.
The prevalence Of diarrhea in its seve-
raj stages in the army of the United
States, for the year ending June 80, 1852,
was 653.47 cases in every thousand men
it is not, therefore, matter of surprise
that the ratio of this disease, in the disa-
bilities of the Veteran Reserve Corps, in
its chronic form, is found to be 81. .56 per
thousand.
Disease of the heart occurs in the ratio
of $3.50 per thousand, or in IA. This
disease has been one Of the most prolific
causes for the discharge of men from the
service. For the first two months of 1863
the ratio per thousand discharged for dis
ease of the heart was 1877. In chronic
rheumatism the ratio is 54.44 per thou
sand, or less than l in every Is
THE EsURGRoN-GENKRALs DEPARTMENT.
The total amount of funds re-
ceived by this department for
the year ending June 80. 1864,
was: ............. $12, ,268, 1888 08
Inc disbursements were. 1,025,7 SO
One hundred and eighty-two general
hospitals, with capacity of eighty-four
thousand four hundred and seventy-two
(S4,472) beds, were in operation at the
date of the last annual report. During the
summer campaigns it was found necessary
to establish additional ones, and to in
crease the capacity of those nearest the
scenes OF active operations, giving one
hundred and ninety Q9O hospitals, with
q capacity of one hundred and twenty
thousand five hundred and twenty.one
Q2O,52D beds, on the Both June. 1864.
During the year the health of the entire
army was better than is usual with troops
engaged SO constantly on active duty and
In arduous campaigns No destructive
epldemlcs prevailed in any section, and the
number OF sick and wounded, although
large, has been comparatively small in the
proportion it has borne to the whole army.
at the close of the year the number of
sick and wounded, both with their COM
mands and in general hospitals, was less
than sixteen 90 per cent. of the strength