Balances on hand July 1, 1900,1 acts of March 3, 1899, and February 9, Pay of other employees. Washing of hospital linen.. Miscellaneous (notary fees and exchange) Transferred by Treasury settlements to adjust appropriations Balances on hand June 30, 1901: In United States Treasury In hands of disbursing officers— Washington San Francisco.. Total accounted for...... $100.94 142, 908.00 2, 898.25 2, 821.65 $445, 463. 89 2, 646. 40 448, 110. 29 286. 42 170, 523. 73 167, 364. 28 ... $105, 403. 81 4, 117.82 110, 222.28 448, 110. 29 Erroneous deposit on account of board of officer in hospital. Medical and hospital department, 1899. Balances on hand July 1, 1900, acts of March 15, 1898, January 5, 1899, and March 3, 1899. Refunded during the year (including transfer settlements by Treasury Department to adjust appropriations, $123,015.23) $385, 081.70 $123, 079.64 24.00 123, 103. 64 Total to be accounted for 508, 185.34 1Including balance at Cebu, P. I., June 1, 1900, the June account from that station not having been received at date of last annual report. 2 Including disbursements at Cebu, P. I., during June, 1900, not previously reported. See preceding note. Treasury settlement to cancel erroneous deposit on account of board of officer in hospital Transferred to appropriation "Medical and hospital department, 1901," by act approved March 3, 1901.. Transferred to surplus fund. Total accounted for.. Medical and hospital department, January 1, 1899. Balances on hand July 1, 1900, acts of May 4, 1898, June 8, 1898, and July 7, 1898... Refunded during the year. Total to be accounted for Disbursed during the year: Medical supplies Medical attendance.. Medical expenses of recruiting Transferred to surplus fund Total accounted for.. $8, 142.63 24.00 150,000.00 350, 018. 71 508, 185.34 $26, 521. 24 10.29 26, 531.53 $952.45 341.29 32.40 3.25 1, 329. 39 25, 202. 14 26, 531.53 Medical and hospital department, certified claims. Appropriated by act approved March 3, 1901. Disbursed during the year Appropriation for national defense, act of March 9, 1898. $8.50 8.50 Allotment by the President April 16, 1898: Balance on hand July 1, 1900 $5.51 Amount not drawn from Treasury, no longer available, dropped to close account on books of this office 5.51 Reallotment by the President September 8, 1898: Balance on hand July 1, 1900 1,592.59 Amount not drawn from Treasury, no longer available, dropped to close account on books of this office. Amount not drawn from Treasury, no longer available, dropped to close account on books of this office... Total accounted for.. WAR 1901-VOL 1, PT II-35 301.55 23, 922.93 24, 224. 48 Amount not drawn from Treasury, no longer available, dropped Total accounted for..... Reimbursement to contract nurses (traveling expenses). 974.40 20, 507.28 21, 481.68 Furnishing trusses to disabled soldiers (sections 1176, 1177, and 1178, Revised Statutes, and act of March 3, 1879). Expended during the year. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS AND THEIR COMMUTATION. $7,807. 44 Under the laws relating to artificial limbs there were furnished during the year ended June 30, 1901, 37 artificial legs. 2 arms, and 2 feet, while commutation certificates were issued and paid in the cases of 151 amputated legs, 113 amputated arms, 9 amputated feet, and 2,748 cases in which the loss of the use of a limb was regarded as proved by the evidence on file. These cases involved the expenditure of $156,814.61 from the appropriations available. Under existing laws these benefits to disabled soldiers recur every three years, so that the claimants who were furnished with limbs or paid commutation during the past fiscal year are chiefly the survivors of the beneficiaries of the year ended June 30, 1898. The sum of $173,000 was estimated and appropriated for their benefit, of which, as stated above, $156,814.61 has been expended. For the current year 1901-1902 the sum of $125,000 was appropriated, which will probably suffice to meet the requirements of the survivors who were last paid in 1899. Loss of During the year 1902-1903 the cases which were paid in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, will again require to be met, together with a series of new claimants resulting from disabilities incurred in the SpanishAmerican war and the Philippine insurrection. In the year ended June 30, 1900, the sum of $506,595.24 was expended. It is believed that the number of deaths that have occurred among these beneficiaries will be more than offset by claimants for disability from the war forces of the country in service since 1898, together with the increasing disabilities of the survivors of the Civil war. A careful consideration of the conditions indicates that the estimate for the year ending June 30, 1903, should be at least $514,000. Since the commencement of the war with Spain, in April, 1898, 128 men disabled during and since that war have been furnished with or paid for 25 artificial arms, 43 legs, 1 foot, and commutation in 91 cases for the loss of the use of the limb. Twenty-five men lost 1 arm each; 42 1 leg; 1 lost 1 leg and the use of the other; 1 lost 1 foot. Twentythree men lost the use of 1 arm; 2 the use of 1 arm and 1 leg; 2 the use of 1 arm and both legs; 3 the use of both arms; 13 the use of 1 leg, and 16 the use of both legs. The following tabulation summarizes the disabilities which have been approved by this office and paid for from the appropriations made annually by Congress since June 17, 1870, to June 30, 1901. On the latter date there remained on the list of beneficiaries 13,200 cases, mostly veterans of the Civil war, with the exception of those mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Most of those marked dropped on the list were taken up again under additional disabilities. Artificial limbs, apparatus, and commutation June 17, 1870, to June 30, 1901, inclusive. 33 12 4 5 7 5 5 1 arm and use 1 arm and 2 |