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BULLETIN 583, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 25. — Medical and surgical equipment of the Fulton County, Ga.. Experimental 
Convict Camp, the cost of medicine used, and depreciation of instruments. January 10 
to July 10, 1916— Continued. 
Article. 
Amount 
or 
number. 
Unit 
cost. 
Cost. 
Expense 
of use 
and 
deprecia- 
tion. 
Surgical forceps 
Surgical needles dozen. 
Sulphate ointment ounces. 
Toothache .drops do. . . 
Epsom salts pounds. 
Do ounces . 
Do pounds . 
Castor oil gallon. 
Do ounces. 
Spirits of niter pound. 
Turpentine pounds . 
Do ounces. 
Do. 
.do... 
"Mixed Treatment" pills 
Do box. 
Cream liniment ounces. 
Liniment pound. 
Camphorine ounces. 
Headache tablets 
Sloan's liniment botles. 
1 
1 
16 
1 
8 
16 
10 
1 
16 
1 
2 
4 
8 
300 
1 
12 
1 
4 
$0. 50 $0. 50 
. ID 
.25 
.05 
2.70 
.40 
.47 
.14 
.10 
.32 
.45 
3.65 
.02 
.20 
.02* 
.20' 
.67 
.75 
.25 
.48 
.09 
.50 
2.70 
.40 
.47 
.28 
.03 
.16 
1.33 
3.65 
.24 
.20 
.10 
.40 
4.02 
Total. 
44.05 
$0.50 
.48 
.07 
.50 
2.70 
.40 
.47 
.14 
.03 
.16 
.24 
.20 
.10 
.30 
23.57 
The total cost of medicine, medical attention, etc., for the six 
months from January 10 to July 10 is shown by the above figures 
to be $116.32; and as there were 7,174 convict calendar days in that 
period, the cost of this item is $0.0162 per convict per calendar day. 
TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS AND SUPPLIES. 
Food, supplies, and equipment were brought to the camp from 
Atlanta at least once a week by the camp team driven by a hired 
driver, who was paid at the rate of $1.35 per day for the time he 
was actually employed and allowed lodging and subsistence free at 
the camp. Convicts also were transported to and from the camp in 
the same manner, and a 1 -horse team was employed to carry the 
midday meal to the men on the road. When they were not occu- 
pied in any of these ways both driver and team were assigned to 
the road work, to be employed in such manner as the foreman might 
direct. 
Table 26 contains a statement of the time of the driver and team 
spent in transporting convicts, food, supplies, and equipment between 
January 10 and July 10. 
Table 26. — Cost of transporting convicts, food, supplies, and equipment from January 
10 to July 10, 1916. 
Free driver, 61 days, at $1,592 per day $243. 53 
Camp team, 127^ days, at $1.91 per day $97. 07 
Cost of transportation January 10 to July 10 $340. 60 
Number of convict calendar days, January 10 to July 10 7, 174 
Cost of transportation per convict per calendar day $0. 0475 
