Volume 3

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

  • United States. Surgeon-General's Office.
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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    Library, Surgeon-OeneraVs Office, 1S99. Appropriated bj' act approved March 15, 1898 $10,000.00 Disbursed during the year 9,726.64 Balance on hand June 30, 1899 273.36 Library, Surgeon-General's Office, J.S9S {act approved March S, 1897). Balance July 1. 1898 $233.21 Disbursed during the year 253.21 Furnishing and jittinq trusses for disabled soldiers {sees. 1176, 1178, R. S., act March 3, 1879). Expended during the year $5,003.00 Providence Hospital. Appropriated by act approved July 1,1898 $19,000.00 Expended during the year . 19,000.00 ARTIFICIAL LIMBS AND THEIR COMMUTATION. Under the provisions of law relating to artificial limbs there were furnished during the year ended June 30, 1899, 27 artificial legs, 4 arms, 1 foot, and 1 apparatus for exsection. Commutation certificates Avere issued for 105 cases of amputated leg, 70 of amputated arm, 12 of amputated foot, and for 1,934 cases of loss of the use of a limb. These cases involved an exxoenditure of $125,038.91 from the appropriations available. These benefits to disabled soldiers recur under existing laws every three years, so that the cases which matured and were paid during the year ended June 30,1898, will again come up for payment if the bene- ficiaries are alive during the year ending June 30, 1901. There were in the files of the office 3,580 cases which matured during the fiscal year 1898. The commutation value of these cases was $182,755. Allowing for deaths during the past three years, I estimate that there will be 3,400 claims presented during the year ending June 30, 1901, and that the sum of $173,000 will be required to settle them. Esti- mates have already been submitted for this sum. APPLIANCES FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS. During the past year the sum of $1,309.89 was expended for 149 appliances issued to disabled soldiers. TRUSSES. The number of trusses issued and fitted during the year was 1,088. PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL. The act of Congress approved July 1, 1898, appropriated $19,000 for the support and medical treatment of destitute patients in the city of Washington, D. C, under a contract to be made with this hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army. The relief afforded under this appropriation was as follows: