The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-03

buDslstence Department has rapidly progressed.
Claims under tho act of July 4, 1884, which have
been fled in the Subsistence Office, amount in
the aggregate to 81 1853 O3lO4, on which sS59i9.l0
have been allowed. Claims amounting TO 81, OIL
1870 await final examination and decision.
The total amount Of money drawn from the
Treasury and disbursed by the Subsistence De
pariment during. the past fiscal year, was
N6lSS72'54, including payment of claims under
during the fiscal years of the war was;--
From July 1881 to June go 1852 799 52l1i
From july /, 1885, to June So 1864 SseSe9s5o
From From Inly sSs to June 80 isSS se9 s ~
Total 1888, ,So5 s6i1
Nc, appropriation is required for the next
fiscal year.
Arrangements will soon be consummated by
the Medical Department for the permanent Sc
curity of its valuable mortuary records, in
Guiding 1900 folio volumes Of hospital regis
ters, 1900 burial records, 10000 hospital muster
and pay rolls, alphabetical registers of the dead,
containing 100000 names of white and 10000 OF
constituting the Army Medical Museum. Dur
ing the year official evidence, obtainable from
no other rs source, 81 cause OF death. or OF dis,
49, ,2l2 cases, and 2lO,0H discharges upon certin-
Gates of disability have been examined and
classified. The total number OF surgical cases
classified and recorged is, of wounds, 1885,
and of operations, 2S, ABS.
The preparation for publication Of the medical
and surgical history OF the war has been prose-
cuted with energy, much of the manuscript and
several of the illustrations for the first volume
being completed The army medical museum
continues to increase In value and usefulness,
modations of the building to which 1t will be
shortly removed, admit of the addition of O
great number OF interesting and instructive
specimens not hitherto available for want of
space. A small appropriation will be reqbired
TO continne the work of classification and pre-
serVation of this national collection. The
number of casualties from the commence
ment Of the war to the present time, in the
regular and volunteer medical staff, is ascer-
taned to be 1856, including 20 killed in battle, IL
by accident, 10 died OF wounds, died in Rebel
prisons, died OF yellow fever, died OF cholera,
N
medical officers were wounded in battle.
The distribution of troops in small bodies
over so large an extent Of country necessitates
the employment of acting assistant surgeons
emporarily, but the number OF these has been
/, 1866, and viii be still further diminished
when existing vacancies in the grade of assist
ant surgeons, created by the act of Congress of
July 49, 1866, are filled; corresponding decrease
in the number OF hospital stewards for general
service has also been effected, and In every
branch of the department reduction and re-
trenchment have been rigtdly enforced, An
aggregate expenditure OF S267 30l 92 was incurred
by the medical department in furnishing off
GERS and supplies to the bureau of refugees
freedmen and abandoned lands, which had un-
der its control during the fiscal year ending July
1866 noappropriationa applicable TO the purpose;
and though, under decision of the Treasury
| Department., reimbursement was not made
| from subsequent appropriations for the freed.
mems Bureau, no embarrassment arose and no
legislation is required. The funds at the dis
| posal OF the medical and hospital department
| during the year ending June 90, 1866, were as
Balance of appropriations remaining in the,
Treasury July 1, 1865 6Llsl24
warrant q s2C 2C5sf5sd sayd dkh y No ss aS 40 on ss war
OF Assistant Surgeon j. B. Brinton, lost In --~-
the mail ana d,s subsequently s S III reinnded, 100000
and hospital property... ............. O442sl'50
Amount refunded on account OF supplies ..t II
bGG isf by e De-
parlment being apportionment OF amount
paid 1or board and care OF sick soldiers in
Amount received ior board OF officers IN
| Amount recovered on account OF stores and
furniture lost or damaged in transporta-
ton 450742
utute discharged soldiers, being for board
nsssi7sa s{s @Gs rom al other sSsSs
Total....... =, 1856 O6l,24
OF this amount there was disDursed during
| the same period
For medical aud hospital supplies "a great
part of this sum expended in payment of
debt of previous year, iq7577s's3
For pay OF private physicians. 926 5sI0j
ployees OO9l6O6
For board Of sick soldiers in private hos iV'0'V
FDr 'ss sHpenses Of hospitals for officers 2sSsi 2Ss5i
| For expenses OF Purveying depots, iaoora- .....
tories repairs 3l2243lS
| For miscellaneous expenses of the medical
department a2si5S9
Total disbursements during the fiscal
ss7 sOi.77
balance IN treasury June So l6b6.. 2,ol64 451'l4
Refunded of amount advanced by disburs- u
Ing officers during the previous yesr....... lsO53s
....- $5,s8eOsi,24
The estimated appropriation required for the
Medical Department for the next fiscal year is
| $4,000. p
The Pay Department remains without ma
| terial change. In consequence of additional
| labors imposed upon this branch of the War
Department by recent Congressional enactment,
and in order to promptly pay the large issue of
Treasury certificates, 1t was necessary 10 retain
temporarily number of additional paymas-
| ters. The financial summary exhibits
A balance on hand at the beginning the o.....
Received from treasury and other
during the l6S,42622SW
,533 22S29
Accounted 1or as follows:--
Disbursements to army and
Disbursements TO volunteers. .24S 943,3l336
Unissued requisiitions In Irea- - -.
In hands OF pay masters June 50 iSaos siS5i
The total disbursements of each class during
the fiscal year is as follows
muster .272 32I'00
10 troops N S9'sS95g00 50
10 10 payment Of Treasury cert
S250,SH,9I7S
The estimated appropriations OF the pay de-
partment amount to Sl1,12o,56 for the pay OF
| the army for the next fiscal year.
The Corps of Engineers, at the close OF the
fiscal year consisted of ninety-fiVe officers, the
battalion OF engineer troops, and the Military
| Academy. Thirteen officers were on detached
duty serving in command OF military depart
ments, on special service connected with the
leYees OF the Mississippi river, on the Light
house Board. with the Department Of the Interior
upon duties relating to the Pacific Railroad, on
military surveys and statfs OF the general-ln-
| chief and commanding general OF the military
| division of the Gulf the remainder were dill
gently engaged in the duties OF their profession,
officers OF desirable experience and practice hav-
| ing direct supervision of the more important
works. The engineer troops were distributed
| between the Military Academy and the Two
| depots of engineer supplies located at Willetts