Summary of prevalent forms of disease on home and foreign service for the year ending Dreem ber 31, 1870. On the 30th of September, 1870, there remained under treatment in the Government asylum for the insane near this city, 3 officers, 6 seamen, 1 extra seaman, 4 landsmen, 1 coal-heaver, 2 late first-class boys, 6 marines, 2 beneficiaries, and 1 late seaman: total.. During the year ending September 30, 1871, there were admitted, 3 officers, 1 apothecary, 1 seaman, 3 landsmen, 4 marines, and one beneficiary; total.... Total number under treatment during the year.. The discharges in the course of the year were: By recovery: 1 officer, 1 seaman, 2 landsmen..... By improvement: 1 landsman. By death: 1 seaman, 1 marine.. 3 1 Leaving in the institution on the 30th of September, 1871:5 officers, 5 seamen, 5 landsmen, 1 apothecary, 1 coal heaver, 1 extra seaman, 2 late firstclass boys, 9 marines, 3 beneficiaries, and 1 late seaman; total... NAVAL HOSPITAL FUND. The condition of this fund is represented as follows: Balance on hand October 1, 1870... Transferred to the fund by the Fourth Auditor in settlements of accounts, &c., from October 1, 1870, to October 1, 1871..... $207, 022-32 31,668 65 Total 10,703 7. a. atre i to the fund in account of supplies from the naval laboratory in satul taky voð. . 1, from October 1, 1:70, to October 1, 1-71..... $15, o×1:39 7:1 317,872 56 Þje ta Gentexp need from October 1, 1-70, to October 1, 1-71...... 173,635 61 P. ' . . o, hats, 0.4 der 1, 1-71...... NAVAL HOSPITALS. 163,736 95 Post Mouth, Nor Hoire.-For repairs to sick quarters on this station, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, there will be Required $1,600 Ole'sto, Moss ikuse!!?.— The repairs to this establishment during the Fist year have been quite limited, merely suflicient for the actual wants. For regis of all kinds for the next fiscal year there will be required the sum of $1,500, Nor York.—At this hospital, since my last report, the flagging of the sades ills have been relaid, and new brick gutters made; the walls of sek-wards and corridors have been repaired, and the floors of the corriors have been painted and varnished. For the necessary repairs, of i kinds, there will be required $3,000, Pl ̈ladephia, Pensylvania.-During the year the tin roof and inside wood work of this hospital have been thoroughly painted, and two rooms in the basement have been fitted up for the safe-keeping of the stores and medicines. The amount required for repairs to this hospital during the next fiscal year will be $2,500. Annapolis, Maryland.-For the necessary current repairs to this hos pital, and for such improvements to the grounds as may be found actually necessary, there will be required $5,000. Wash upton, D. C—For repairs of all kinds to this establishment for the next fiscal year there will be required $2,000, Norfork, Vig sin.-The roof of this hospital has been newly covered during the year, and a new wood-shed has been built on the grounds. For this hospital there will be required for repairs, for the next fiscal year, $2,500, Pensacola, Florida.─For repairs to the temporary buildings used for hospital purposes at this place there will be required $1,000, Move Intl, Colitern'.-For completing the improvements to the ro de arrache 1 to dus establishment, and for the necessary repairs of all kinds, tre vall be required $5,000, NAVAL LABORATORY, NEW YORK. For the current repairs to this establishment and its appurtenances, a od for the purchase and mpa.r of machinery, apparatus, instruments, &e, the son of ♬ 5,500 wil be required. As no change: have been made in the pension laws since my report of Last year, it becomes my duty again to call attention to their insufficut and copt.adhetory character, leading to much suttering and unhe topress in the ene mia zement of hopes which the construction of the * cannot teinil. Delorespectully call attent on to the protection justly due that valPak e ela có cheers, the naval avoʻhecaries, They should, in the opinPode of the Pure 1 1, be made a permanent corps, instead of remaining, as the, ca șo”, . 1 to ental employment, without any provision intro'd a e, and after the longest service, Those we now cheers of this class who are worn out in the service kept on duty, because there is no refuge for them but the poor-house or the grave. It gives me pleasure to report that valuable scientific papers, adding to that knowledge which is of general benefit, have been received and given to the public by the Bureau. First, through the instrumentality of Commodore C. R. P. Rodgers, then in Europe, a very valuable paper upon the British contagious-diseases act, of great hygienic, naval, and moral interest. Second, original professional and scientific papers from the following officers of the medical corps: Medical directors, Ruschen. * berger and McClelland; medical inspectors, Wilson and Maccoun; sur geons, Gihon, Gorgas, Bloodgood, and Taylor; and Passed Assistant Surgeon Pilcher, all of which testify to the efficiency and abilities of the members of the medical corps. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. M. WOOD, Surgeon General, U. S. N., and Chief of Bureau. Hon. GEORGE M. ROBESON, Secretary of the Navy. H BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING. BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING, SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith estimates marked A, B, C, D, and E, and schedules marked F, G, and II, and statement marked 1, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873. It is not deemed necessary to make an estimate for clothing for the Navy. I deem it my duty to recommend that the ration of tea, coffee, and sugar, be increased one-third, viz, tea from one-fourth of an ounce to three-eighths of an ounce; coffee, from one-half of an ounce to threefourths of an ounce, and sugar from two ounces to three ounces per day, for each person. It is the practice on board vessels of the Navy to have the men called up at daylight in the morning, and not to have breakfast until So'clock. and it is almost the universal custom, and considered highly necessary to health, for persons in malarious and tropical climates, in which our vessels mostly cruise, immediately on rising to take a cup of tea or coffee. This has been frequently recommended by the medical officers of the Navy, and in some cases the commanding officers have ordered, asa sanitary measure, the issue of an extra ration of coffee and sugar. This is, however, not warranted by law, and it is a responsibility that commanders of vessels should not be required to assume. I also beg leave to renew my recommendation that the men be allowed an outfit of clothing on enlisting in the Navy. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. GEO. M. ROBESON, EDWARD T. DUNN, Paymaster General, United States Navy. Secretary of the Navy. BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING. NAVY DEPARTMENT, Bureau of Steam Engineering, October 30, 1871. SIR: In obedience to your order the 13th instant, I have the honor to submit the annual report of this Bureau, together with the estimates for maintaining the steam-machinery of vessels of the Navy afloat; for the preservation, repair, and rentting of others needed for service; for materials, and stores; and for the civil establishment in the Bureau and navy-yards. The appropriations for this Bureau for the last four years have been so small and inadequate to its requirements as to render the completion of new machinery för vessels under construction impossible; or to repair that in vessels at dhe yards,that may at any time be required for service; or, indeed, to keep in a good state of preservation the machinery of the vessels laid up in ord.mary. An inspection of the following list will show the number and names of vessels having their machinery under repair, to be repaired, to have new machinery, and those in which as yet no machinery has been erected, viz: UNDER PEPAIR. Screw steamers,—Minnesta, (1-t rate;) Hartford, (21 rate ;) Worcester, (2d rate;) Lackawanna, (¿d rate;) Tuscarora, (ith rate;) Frole, (5th rate.) IO EL REPAIRID, Serve women-Franklin, dst rate:) Richmond, c2d rate;) Lancaster, (24 rate:) Monor gahela, ( kd rate;) Plymouth, 154 rate;) Kearsarge, (47à rate;) Mohican, (4th Nanta-kot, (4th rate;) Kaunas, is th ratep) Nyork, roth rate,) Follescheel steamers,—butty sburgh, côtli rate.) TO HAVE MACHINEKY, Serve alerter -Tennessee, c2d 1step). Omda, id rate;) Dakotah, (4th rate;) Craattia, (th rate;) Quiachang, with rated. The machinery of the Omaha is being eted on bound that ve ON THE S, XAN. Scree steaner —Contect,rut, (1st rate;) Anticʻamı, (1st rate:;) Elinois, (1st rate;) Java, (1st Tate;) New York, (1st rate ;) Petnsvivania, (1st rate.), Imalatı - cosets, (21 rate: Mass, Lusetts, (24 rate;) Nebraska, (2d rate;) Gegon, (21 rave. Since my last annual report the repairs, alterations, &c., to the machinery of the following n med vessels have been completed, viz: 1st rates.—Wabash, Califorma. Id rates.-Pensacola, Powhatan. 3d rates.—Canandaigua, Ticonderoga. 4th rates.-Iroquois, Wachusett, Wyoming. 5th rate-Shawmut. Iron cad.—Miantonomah. An appropriation having ben made at the last session of Congress for the eqa.pient of the foundery at the Mare Island navy yard, the necessary appitances not made at the yard have been forwarded, and the work of hiting up as being pashed to completion. An appropriation Laving also been made for the completion of the works of the new Pacine shop, Brooklyn navy yard, the machinery in the old building i unor process of removal to the new buildng, and Leung erected, and the old building will be converted into an engineers' store house. The Department, believing the time to be near at hand when Congress must hear the repeated appeals from citizens and officials to repair losses from decay and reduction of vessels, and strengthen the Navy by additions of an improved class of ships, so as to bring up the standard, in some degree at least, commensurate with the navies of the more important European nations; and desiring, in new constructions, to take advantage of all improvements that science and art can suggest; and the subject having been brought to your notice that radical and inportant changes had occurred in marine engineering abroad since our latest ships were designed and constructed, you wisely determined that this Bureau should be placed in possession of the facts in relation thereto. Accordingly, I was directed to proceed to Europe, communicate with our ministers and agents in all countries deemed necessary to visit, for the purpose of gaining admission into the public dockyards and other establishments; to make the proper investigations and obtain reliable information in relation to the several varieties of engines, boilers, &c., used in naval and commercial vessels, and to decide on the type regarded as the most successful and the most economical in consumption of fuel that may be advantageously applied to vessels of war. Also, to make observations on dock-yard machinery and appliances, and any other information considered of value to the Department. Fortified with full authority under the orders thus issued, I sailed from New York June 10, for England, and returned here October 9, 1871, the time intervening in Europe being constantly occupied in visiting the largest and most important engineering works, dock-yards, and vessels, examining plans, observing constructions, in design and detail, as well as the plants, or facilities and appliances, for rapid and economical execution of work; also the material used in construction. That no time was lost, unnecessarily, in discharging the duties assigned, will be apparent from the fact that the following-named extensive establishments, in different localities of Great Britain, France, Germany, and Belgium, were visited, and some of them several times; besides, visits were made to many iron-clads and commercial vessels building, completed, and in service, as well as to distinguished engineers and other persons not connected with engineering works, but necessary to be seen. The establishments visited were as follows: Her Britannic Majesty's royal dock-yard, Devonport and Keyham, on the southwest coast; the dock-yard, Chatham, on the river Medway; the several engineering works of Mr. John Penn & Son, Messrs. Mauldslay, Fields & Co., Messrs. Humphreys & Tenant, Messrs. J. &. G. Rennie, Messrs. Ravenhill & Hodson, Messrs. Dudgeon, "The Canal Iron-Works," and the Thames Engineering Works and Iron-Ship Building-Yard," all on or near the river Thames; the several engineering works and iron-ship building-yards of Messrs. Palmer & Co., Messrs. Michael & Co., Messrs. Leslie & Co., and the engine-works of Messrs. Stephenson & Co., all on the river Tyne; the several engineering works and iron-ship building-yards of Messrs. John Elder & Co., Messrs. Napier & Son, Messrs. J. & G. Thompson, Messrs. Demi Brothers, and the Dennistown forge, all on the river Clyde; the engineering works and iron-ship building-yard of Messrs. Laird Brothers, the Vauxhall Engine Works, and the Mersey Steel and Iron Works, all on the river Mersey; the Bolton Steel-Works, and Hicks Engine Factory, both at Bolton; the machine and tool works of Messrs. Greenwood & Batley, at Leeds; the Atlas Works, at Manchester-all of the above being in Great Britain. In France: The National (late Imperial) Toulon Dock-Yard, on the Mediterranean; the Société Nouvelle Forges, Chantier le Seyne; the very extensive engineering |