close of each month, a list of patients suffering therefrom (Form No. 39). 2320. This report will embrace all cases of officers and enlisted men so far as known, and will be made in duplicate, one copy to be forwarded to the Medical Director and one direct to the Surgeon General. 2321. At the close of the epidemic, or of his term of service, the Medical officer in charge will also forward, with as little delay as practicable, a "history of the epidemic," setting forth, so far as known to him, the facts connected with its origin or importation, its progress and decline, together with an account of the methods of treatment or prevention employed, and their results, and of the results of autopsies.-[ Circ. No. 2, Surg. Gen., 1868.] 2322. At such posts as may be designated by the Surgeon General, a meteorological register shall be kept by the senior Medical officer.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1290.] 2323. Every Medical officer conducting meteorological observations under the preceding paragraph shall make monthly, to the Surgeon General, a report (Form No. 40), which shall be a true copy of the register.-[Regs. 1853, ¶¶ 1290, 1300.] 2324. Instruments for the observations, books for recording them, and blanks for the monthly reports, will be issued from the Surgeon General's Office.-[Circ. No. 1, Surg. Gen., 1871.] 2325. No part of the observations indicated on the blank form will be dispensed with, nor additional ones recorded, except in accordance with special instructions from the Surgeon General.[Regs. Med. Dept.] 2326. All pathological specimens of interest, accompanied, if possible, by complete histories of the cases, shall be forwarded to the Army Medical Museum.-[Regs. Med. Dept.] 2327. Upon the march, or in battle, Medical officers shall habitually be attended by a mounted orderly carrying a medicine case and such instruments as may be considered necessary.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1337.] * * * * * * * 2329. Empty boxes, cans, and bottles, in the field, may be expended when not required for further use.-[Regs. Med. Dept.] 2330. All blank forms that are required by Medical officers, with directions for filling them out, will be furnished upon application made direct to the Surgeon General. Ordinarily, requests will be made for one year's supply. With armies in the field, they shall be obtained from the Medical Director.-[Regs. Med. Dept.] REPORTS. 2331. When a post is abandoned, or a detachment is broken up, the Medical officer shall report it, without delay, to the Medical Director and the Surgeon General, and shall make the required re ports of sick and wounded without waiting for the termination of the periods specified in other cases. 2332. In every case, the death of a Medical officer, Contract Physician, or Hospital Steward shall be specially reported by the attending Surgeon, or the nearest Medical officer, to the Medical Director and the Surgeon General.-[Regs. Med. Dept.] 2333. Within two days after every action, the senior Medical officer on duty with a regiment or detachment shall transmit through the proper channels to the Medical Director, in duplicate, lists of wounded (Form No. 41), and classified return of wounds and injuries (Form No. 42) of the command to which he is attached. The Medical Director shall immediately forward one set of these lists to the Surgeon General, and retain the other to accompany his report to his Commanding General.—[ Regs. Med. Dept.] 2334. Medical officers shall report to the Surgeon General and to the issuing officer all defects observed in the quality, quantity, or packing of Medical supplies, or in the material or construction of their surgical instruments, and shall state the name of the vender or maker, and that of the issuing officer.-[Regs. Med. Dept.] 2335. The senior Medical officer of each hospital, post, regiment, or detachment, shall also prepare and forward the following reports: 1. A daily report, after Surgeon's call, of sick and wounded for the commanding officer.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1301.] 2. A monthly report of sick and wounded (Form No. 43), to be made out in duplicate on the last day of each month, and forwarded, one copy to the Medical Director for file in his office, and the other to the Surgeon General direct. 3. A monthly report of hired nurses and cooks (Form No. 45), to be made out in duplicate on the last day of each month, one copy to be sent to the Medical Director, and one to the Surgeon General. 4. A monthly statement of the hospital fund (Form No. 46), to be made in duplicate and forwarded, with one set of vouchers (Form No. 47), to the Medical Director, who will verify its correctness, retain one copy, and forward the other, with the vouchers, to the Surgeon General. An invoice of all durable articles purchased during each month from the hospital fund (Form No. 48) is to be prepared in triplicate, and certified by the Medical officer in charge of the hospital. The original of this invoice will be forwarded to the Surgeon General, with the copy of the statement of the hospital fund for the month, and the duplicate and triplicate used as directed in clause 7. 5. Quarterly reports of wounded (Form No. 49), of surgical operations (Form No. 50), and of wounded remaining under treatment at the beginning of the quarter (Form No. 51). These reports are to be made out on March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31, of each year, and forwarded to the Surgeon General. 6. An annual sanitary report (Form No. 38), in duplicate, on the 31st December. These reports shall be sent to the Medical Director, by whom one shall be forwarded, with his remarks, to the Surgeon General. 7. A return of durable property purchased from the hospital fund (Form No. 52), to be made out in duplicate on 31st December, or whenever relieved from the charge of it, and forwarded to the Surgeon General, with one set of the invoices mentioned in clause 4. The triplicate invoices will be kept with the officer's retained copy of his return.-[Regs. 1863, ¶¶ 1300, 1303; Regs. Med. Dept. ¶ 79.] * * * MEDICAL ATTENDANCE. 2339. Medical officers, where on duty, shall attend officers and enlisted men, and laundresses allowed by law, and at stations where other medical attendance cannot be procured without great expense or inconvenience, and on marches, the hired men of the Army, and the families of officers and soldiers. Medicines will be dispensed to the families of officers and soldiers, and to all persons entitled to medical attendance; hospital stores to enlisted men, and to officers at posts where they cannot be obtained by purchase.[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1295; G. O. 108, 1877.] 2340. When medical attendance is required by officers or enlisted men on duty, and the attendance of a Medical officer cannot be had, the officer, or, if there be no officer, then the enlisted man, may employ a private physician, and a just account (Form No. 55) therefor will be paid by the Medical Department.—[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1309.] 2341. Bills for medicines and medical attendance will be allowed for officers who were actually on duty at the time and place specified in the bill.—[G. O. 64, 1873.] 2342. Accounts for medical attendance must show the nature of the disease or injury for which he was treated, and that the services of a Medical officer of the Army could not be obtained.—[G. O. 64, 1873.] 2343. Accounts for medicines must be accompanied by the original prescriptions, and must be for medicines-properly so called-only; they must show that the medicines could not have been procured at an Army dispensary.-[G. O. 64, 1873.] 2344. Officers properly absent from their commands or stations by reason of disability resulting from wounds received or disease contracted in the line of duty are entitled to receive medical attendance and medicines from the United States. If furnished by persons not in the employ of, or from stores not owned by the United States, the accounts for the same, before being paid, must be approved by the Secretary of War. 2345. The account shall state the name of the patient, and the date of and charge for each visit, and for medicines. The physician shall make a certificate to the account in case of an officer, or an affidavit in the case of an enlisted man, that the account is correct, and the charges are the customary charges of the place.-[Regs. 1863, 1310.] 2346. The officer shall make his certificate, or the enlisted man his affidavit, to the correctness of the account; that he was on service at the place, and stating the circumstances preventing him from receiving the services of a Medical officer.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1311.] 2347. When the charge is against an officer, he should pay the account, if practicable, and transmit it, properly receipted, to the Surgeon General for reimbursement; in all other cases, the account shall be transmitted to the Surgeon General for settlement.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1312.] 2348. If the charge be against a deceased officer or enlisted man, the physician shall make the affidavit in paragraph 2345, required to the account, and that he has been paid no part of it.-[Regs. 1863, 1313.] 2349. No charges for consultation fees will be paid by the Medical Department.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1314.] 2350. Accounts for the board, nursing, and medical attendance of sick soldiers in private hospitals shall be sent to the Surgeon General for settlement.-[Regs. Med. Dept.] * 2362. Every officer, non-commissioned officer, enlisted or hired man, of the land or naval forces of the United States, who in the line of his duty as such, or through disease contracted in the service as such, shall have lost a limb or the use of a limb, shall receive once every five years an artificial limb or appliance, or commutation therefor, as he shall elect, under such regulations as the Surgeon General of the Army may prescribe; and the period of five years shall be held to commence with the filing of the first application after the seventeenth day of June, in the year 1870. The money value allowed as commutation is, for legs $75, for arms, feet, and apparatus for resection $50 each.--[R. S., §§ 4787, 4788; act of August 15, 1876, sec. 17.] 2363. Necessary transportation to have artificial limbs fitted shall be furnished by the Quartermaster General of the Army, the cost of which shall be refunded out of any money appropriated for the purchase of artificial limbs.—[Act of August 15, 1876, sec. 2.] * * * * RECORD BOOKS. 2365. The books required to be kept by officers of the Medical Department, with directions for keeping them, will be furnished by the Surgeon General. * * * * * 2368. The senior Medical officer of each hospital, post, regiment, or detachment, shall keep the following records, and deliver them to his successor: A register of patients; a register of surgical operations; a register of patients' effects; a register of deaths and interments; a case. diet and prescription book; medical history of the post; copies of his requisitions; annual returns and all other reports; record books of all orders and letters relating to his duties.— [Regs. 1863, ¶ 1290.] * * * ARTICLE LXXXII. PAY DEPARTMENT. 2370. The Paymaster General, in conformity with the laws and regulations, is charged with all necessary instructions to his subordinates in reference to the supply and distribution of funds for the payment of the Army, and all other things pertaining to the financial duties of his Department, and the accountability of its officers. In these and all other matters having relation specially to the internal administration of the Pay Department, the correspondence between the Paymaster General and his subordinates, and between the Division and Department Chief Paymaster and their subordinates, will be direct. All other correspondence shall pass through the prescribed military channels.—[Ĝ. O. 37, 1869; G. O. 79, 1870.] * * * * * * 2377. Payments, except to officers and discharged soldiers, shall be made on duplicate muster and pay rolls; those of the regimental field and staff signed by the regimental commander, those of companies and detachments by the company or detachment commander, those of the hospital by the Surgeon, and all countersigned by the mustering and inspecting officer.-—[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1340; Regs. Pay Dept.] 2378. Officers are paid on duplicate pay and other accounts, certified by themselves, according to the prescribed form (Form No. 3, for pay; Form No. 11, for travel; Form No. 15, for telegrams; Form No. 17, for commutation of quarters).—[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1343.] 2379. As far as practicable, officers are to draw their pay from the Paymaster assigned to pay the posts or stations where they |