ao) 
from the line approve* by all officers concerned might be >-'ade by a 
Depart t or ■< Division Commander in the field. 
Co) Annual and special r< isltlons i. '•• vn * * ingle and 
not dunlin* te or triplicate. Intermedia*'* «*'"leers ne^d only note 
its reception. ATtSjp being filled by the supply Depot it own ’ > filed 
Of p*s M isues on hie abstract only i>v lie*teethe 
record of the property division. 
Hospital Corps returns need only be wade in single copies to 
tho Surgeon tenoral, each of ice of transmi n erely nsln it to 
verify the record of the changes occurring in the previous month, in 
the saws wanner that only one personal report be wads. 
The Hospital ^und statement need go no further than the chief 
sur. ron of a department who regulates alt expenditures and transfers 
of funds, forwarding r n abstract to th* Surgeon General, of receipts, 
expenditures 1 and balances of each station. 
The imonthly report of examination of recruits only duplicates 
the data reeloualy reported and coo id w«t he diape 1th. 
Tacrine virus usually being needed in haste should be obtained 
by station or poet surgeons directly from the baker. The report of 
it *.eipt will check the manufacture' • l. 
The only Medical reports retired would be as follows 
Ttel.lv : one wornIny sick report; ontfrly . one personal report, 
one Hospital corps Report* one nick & wounded Report 
one Hospital corps return, 
one Hospital Fund statement. - 
Yearly . ’ Ocoastonnlly. 
one requisition, one speial requisition* 
one Property return. one change of status of per— 
. 
one Death of Officers, 
one death of soldiers, 
one sanitary report, 
one epidemic report 
■ one wounded in action. 
te* 
The increase- ef'ficieiioy of administration through having bri¬ 
gade Surgeons * transfer officers, men and supplies between stations 
in Fri yide shows the benefit of not allowing such details to go hdgh- 
tho L ur jeon of a Department or Divie.i- in the field, 
indeed every tine^btkt of burden whl a Can be taken from the 
shoulders of a eupe^ioarofficer and distributed on the shoulders of 
numerous subordinates '..eke the whole machine that cw>i more movable 
■ nd more easily managed. 
5s.—RFcHF-ATI oh g in the provinces arc almost nothing, except cards 
and o little baseball. Raiding is tiresome and the saloon is a relief 
as no exert! is needed to ifUk and talk and listen to others. This 
explains why American saloons spring up like mushrooms and flourish 
wherever troops are stationed. . ' 
O 
P6.-H0 recruits have b m reoeived in th- rigade ss far as known 
in this office., 
„ w. TICK APD WOWPHD nvpoHT is usually weV Kept, a fe>- ■ inor 
errors were discovered in the Registers of sone stations. It would 
lessen work at home stations to have surgeons make out but one copy 
forwarded through official channels and let each Chief surgeon scruti¬ 
nize and ex' i ho needs % is office. This system works well 
Juac ‘ 
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SANITARY EFFORT has boon emasculated by making it stereo¬ 
typed. its present form only repeats "onth after month data which 
should already by Known by each Chief surgeon, and is a nop to lazi¬ 
ness at the expense of more and useless clerical work. The Burgeon 
