from the line approved by all officers concerned might he made by a 
Department or a Division Commander in the field* 
(c) Annual and special requisitions might he made single and 
not duplicate or triplicate, intermediate officers need only note 
its reception. After being filled by the supply Depot it can be filed* 
That officer's report of issues on his abstract only duplicates the 
record of the property division. 
Hospital Corps returns need only be made in single copies to 
the surgeon General, each office of transmittal merely using it to 
verify the record of the changes occurring in the previous month, in 
the same manner that only one personal report be made. 
The Hospital fund statement need go no further than the Chief 
Surgeon of a Department who regulates all expenditures and transfers 
of funds, forwarding an abstract to the surgeon General, of receipts, 
expenditures and balances of each station. 
The monthly report of examination of recruits only duplicates 
the data previously reported and could well be dispensed with. 
Vaccine virus usually being needed in haste should be obtained 
by station or post surgeons directly from the maker. The ©port of 
its receipt will check the manufacture's bill. 
The only medical reports required would be as follows 
Dailv : one morning sick report; Monthly , one personal report, 
one Hospital Corps Report. one Sick & Wounded Report 
one Hospital Corps return, 
one Hospital Fund statement. 
Yearly . Q_cca.si ona.lly, 
one requisition, one speial requisition, 
one Property return. one change oft status of per¬ 
sonal. 
one Death of Officers, 
one death of soldiers, 
one sanitary report, 
one epidemic report 
one wounded in action. 
The increased efficiency of administration through having Bri¬ 
gade surgeons transfer officers, men and supplies between stations 
in Brigade shows the benefit of not allowing such details to go high¬ 
er than the Chief surgeon of a Department or Division in the field# 
indeed every tin© bit of burden which can be taken from the 
shoulders of a superior Officer and distributed on the shoulders of 
numerous subordinates make the whole machine that mush more movable 
and more easily managed. 
55.—REc RE AT IONS in the provinces are almost nothing, except cards 
and a little baseball. Reading is tiresome and the saloon is a relief 
as no exertion is needed to drink and talk and listen to others. This 
explains why American saloons spring up like mushrooms and flourish 
?;herever troops are stationed. 
56. -No recruits have been received in the Brigade as far as known 
in this office. 
57. -THE SICK AND WOUNDED REPORT is usually well kept, a few minor 
errors were discovered in the Registers of some stations. 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 extract data he needs in his office. This systen works well 
58. -THE SANITARY REPORT has been emasculated by making it stereo¬ 
typed.* Its present form only repeats month after month data which 
should already by known by each Chief Surgeon, and is a sop to lazi— 
Sss at the expense of more and useless olerioal work. The surgeon .. 
