Annual report, the surgeon general, United States Army. 18881888 |
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16 Other constitutional 20 Other diseases 29 Diseases 32 Dyspepsia 36 Diseases 9 Syphilis acute infectious diseases admission rate admissions to sick Assistant Surgeon Bronchitis Causes of admission charg Classified causes colored troops common colds constant non-effective rate Contusions and sprains cular rheumatism culatory system D'ths Diarrhoea Died dietic diseases Dysentery Dyspepsia Enteric fever enthetic diseases febrile and acute fective Fractures not gunshot genito-urinary system non-venereal gestive system Gonorrhoea and results Headache and neuralgia heart and valves Heat stroke hospital including cholera morbus including erysipelas integu Jefferson Barracks locomotor system locomotor system excluding Malarial fevers mean strength mentary system miasmatic diseases military station therein non-ef northern group Parasitic diseases phthisis Pleuritis Pneumonia ratio sick report southern specific febrile spiratory system stantly Admit stipation sulting conditions Syphilis and results system excluding mus Table showing Tonsillitis Total for disease Total for injury Typho-malarial fever typhoid fever Vaccina venereal diseases
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Página 11 - Ocean on the west. The surface is broken by a complex range of mountains, known as the Coast Range, running parallel to the coast. East of this range is a great valley extending from Puget Sound to the southern part of California, occupied in Oregon by the Willamette and other rivers, and in California by the Sacramento and the San Joaquín. The whole region has a wet and a dry season, corresponding to the summer...
Página 6 - The limited number of contract surgeons allowed by law necessitates the employment of private physicians, under existing regulations, to furnish medical attendance to officers and enlisted men at stations where there is no medical officer of the Army. These physicians are paid by the visit from the " medical and hospital appropriation.
Página 6 - For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for 'general sanitation, expenses of medical purveying depots, pay of employees, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army on duty at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, for the proper care and treatment of cases in the Army suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases...
Página 100 - The substitution of bacon and kiln-dried corn meal, in the southern division, will have, it is believed, valuable effects. They are both much more congenial to the habits of the people in that section of our country.
Página 49 - Adjutant-General, was considerably greater than that given above, •being 23,937 white, and 2,428 colored, or a total of 26,365 men. The discrepancy between the two sets of figures is due to the fact that every officer and enlisted man of the Army is accounted for on the returns of the Adjutant-General, while the consolidated reports of the Medical Department show only the strength of the commands from which...
Página 122 - Then tho squad-room walls and bedding were infested with vermin to a most annoying degree; now there are no complaints, and no occasion for any. Then the only bathing facilities during cold weather consisted of a wash-tub taken into the mess-room; now there are very good bath and lavatory accommodations, properly heated in the winter, so that the men can bathe at any time, which they do frequently. Then the water supply was scanty and of the...
Página 127 - Of these, during the two years, there were 4333, and 259 of the patients, or 6 per cent of the whole number, died. The corresponding percentage from the records of the Civil War was 14.3. Table C in Part I of the medical volume of the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, shows that among the white troops of the army there...
Página 7 - Congress be requested to grant authority, in the purchase of medical and hospital supplies which cost less than $500, to make such purchases after due advertisement for bids, without entering into a formal written contract. In many instances a strict compliance with the letter of the law and existing regulations, in preparing the formal executory contracts, Jive copies of which are required, entails an expense to the Government in clerical time am!
Página 130 - MISCELLANEOUS. The requirements of the Army as regards medical officers during the past year have been as follows : Number of permanent posts...
Página 54 - The death-rate was 8.12 per 1,000 of mean strength, being a little lower than that for 1886, which was 8.82, and considerably lower than the rate for the previous decade, which was 11.4. The ratio of deaths from disease was 5.65 for the past year, 5.7 for 1886, and 6.3 for the previous decade; from injury, 2.47 for the past year, 3.1 lor 1886, and 5.0 for the decade.