Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-04-24
WITH THE VETERANS

were as follows: Salary OF the presi
) dent $4,000; general treasurer, $1,000;
assistant general treasurer, $3,ooo'
clerical services, $l4,775.o2; secre
tary. $4,000; inspector-generai and
chief surgeons office. Inspector gen
eral and chief surgeon, assistant In
spector general, $1,000; Outdoor reiiei'
s524.93; agents, Chicago agency
| 100000; clerical services for the
board of managers services, %,2oo.
Incidental expenses. rent, express
age, kilograms, etc, s5,4S7.
Tn report shows that the average
cost per capita in the state homes
was S232.3S. The estimate OF appro-
priation required by the national
home for the services of the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1911, amounts
10 a total of s4,3O9, $4,000. For aid
to state OF territorial homes Sl,Ioo'-
0OO. 90 Is required, making grand TO-
tai of s5,459, $4,000.
The report OF the inspector-generai
and chief surgeon states, The wnoic
number of members cared for during
the year was practically the same
rs last year, but there was an III
crease of 357 in the average NUMBER
present, with a corresponding de-
crease of 342 in the number absent.
The gains in membership, by admis-
sion and re-admission are the lars-
est recorded in the history OF the
home. but the losses by discharge
and death are correspondingiy large
which confirms the evidence OF last
years report as to the considerable
number of soldiers who are now seek
ing the benefit Of the home for a lew
weeks or months at a time as their
necessities require or for medicai
treatment. The average present SICK
was 4.413, which is 1853 more than
the average for last year. Last year
the average age of Civil war mem
hers was $40 years, and the aver
age age at death 1881 years. The popu-
lation of the home has been fully
maintained by an increase OF more
than 40 per cent OF Spanish-Ameri-
can war. Provisional army and Indian
campaign members, the total number
for the year being 2,463. A con-
siderable percentage OF these mem
bers are tuberculous but the deatn
rate from the disease continues toi
decrease, being 232 per cent of the
cases cared for during the year.
OF the 36.251 members cared Tor
during the last fiscal year, 32,0ISl
could read and write and 4,17S could
neither read nor write. OF tie latter,
$3.50 per cent were native born and
42.1O were foreign born.
Report of the Southern Branch.
b The report of the Southern branch
for the fiscal year ending June So
1909, says: Average present, 2,34o;
average present and absent, 3,los'
whole number cared for, 4,095;
whole number receiving medical treat
ment, 3,0S2; average age OF members,
6S.1S; average cost of daily ration,
1872; cost per capita per year, $lSl--
So. Acreage OF the branch IS now
S5.36 acres.
Governor T. T. Knox in his report
says:
The discipline of the branch has
been fair, but owing to its close prox-
unity to Phoebus much drunkenness
occurs" The report adds: Mem
bers subject to detail, l,1o4; members
on extra duty, $50; sick in hospital,
34s; sick in quarters, II; in arrest, TO-
During the year ss2 members and one
commissioned officer were absent
with leave, and &c members were alb
snt without leave.
The average number of civilian en-
ployees were men. "A. women. AZ.
The gain for the year was as follows;
BY appointment (ofsicers), Z; by ad-
mission, SOC; by re-admission, 3sS;
by transfer, 1874.
Loss-by resignation (oficers). q
by transfer (ofsicers). L; by transfer,
80: by discharge, 397; by dishonor-
able discharge, IL: by dropped from
rolls, 1917; by death, 3os.
There we're at the close Of the last
fiscal year 81 members who server
in the war with Spain, Provisional
army and Indian campaigns The
number OF coIored members was zss'
! OF the 1895 members cared for du-
ring the year, Belgium furnished l.
Bohemia 81. England Is, France 4
Germany $50. ireland $50. Italy 2
New Brunswick 1, Norway ,. Nova
Scotia s, Prussia 3, Russia 3, Scot
land S. Sweden 5. Switzerland s
Wales Z. West Indies I. making a
total OF 1902.