HOSPITAL AT PORT ANGELES, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

A marine hospital at Port Angeles, Washington Territory, was sold in accordance with instructions contained in Department letter dated April 14, 1868, for the sum of $165; but up to the date of closing this report no record has been found in the Department of the establishment of a marine hospital at that port.

INDEX.

Pago.

Act of 1798, imposing tax on seamen..

February 26, 1811, providing separate fund for the Navy..

March 3, 1837, authorizing the Secretary of War to appoint a board of
Army medical officers to select sites for marine hospitals...
June 29, 1870, re-organizing marine hospital service.

Admissions, number of, into hospital at each port during fiscal year ended June
30, 1872..

Amendments suggested by supervising surgeon to existing laws regulating marine hospital service...

Amputations of portions of foot and toes.

Appropriations by Congress to hospital fund, to supply deficiencies for each year, from October 1, 1798, to June 30, 1872..

78,79

Collections made each year, from October 1, 1798, to June 30, 1872.

78,79

Contents, table of..

Contributors, names of, to surgical report...

3

Dallas, Alexander J., connection of, as Secretary of Treasury, in 1815, with the early history of the marine hospital service.

8

Deaths in hospital, by ports, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1872.
Discharges from hospital, by ports, during fiscal year ended June 30, 1872...
Diseases and injuries of head, face, and neck..

68-71

68-71

24-28

arranged by ports, (Table A)...

48-67

resulting in death during fiscal year ended June 30, 1872.. 68-71

arranged by ports, (Table B)...............

68-71

Dues. (See "Money.")

Expenditures for hospital relief at the several ports during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1872, (Table C)......

72-76

Expenditures, legitimate causes of increase of, during 1872.

Gallatin, Albert, connection of, as Secretary of the Treasury in 1802, with early

Hospitals, brief sketch of each..

21

9

7

7

10-18

summary information regarding.

18

first one established at Norforlk, Virginia, under act of 1798.
number in operation in 1802

7

7

location of each; dates of purchase of site and commencement of con-
struction; when first occupied; total cost of each, from purchase of
site up to June 30, 1872; present condition, if still in possession of the
Government; if sold, amount received...

detailed statement of cost of each building and site, from the organiza-
tion of the service in 1798 to June 30, 1872..

Vicksburg, Mississippi...

15.

17.

Wilmington, North Carolina.

other than Government, devoted to seamen.

Indebtedness incurred for hospital relief at the several ports during fiscal year ended June 30, 1872. (Table C)...... Injuries. (See "Diseases.")

Inspectors, medical..

Money, (hospital money,) amounts collected at the several ports, under the act to

re-organize the marine hospital service. (Table C).. 724 amount collected during each year, from October 1. 1798, to June, 30, 1872. (Table E)...

amount collected by the Navy Departinent, from sea-
men in the Navy, from 1799, to February 26, lell....

Physicians. (See "Surgeons.")
Relief, extent of, furnished at the different ports during the year ending June 30,
1872. (Table C).

Report of surgical cases

Sawtelle, Dr. H. W., specially commended by supervising surgeon for ability and zeal in discharge of his duties as clerk in Bureau of Marine Hospital Service. Seamen, meaning of the word, in the marine hospital service.

(foreign,) charge for their care and treatinent fixed by act of May; 1802 Secretary of the Navy, statement of, to Congress, in 1810, in regard to poor fare and accommodations provided in marine hospitals for sick seamen.. Service, (marine hospital,) history of..

Department, work of....

re-organization of.............

operations of, during the year 1872.

difference of cost between the years 1-71 and 1872.
supervision of.

regulations of..........

comparative statement of operations of, for the years
ended, respectively, June 30, 1871, and June 30,
1872...

proposed amendments to law regulating.

Springsguth, Reinhold, specially commended by supervising surgeon for ability
and zeal in discharge of clerical duties in Bureau of Marine Hospital Service.
Surgeon, (supervising,) letter from, to the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting
report..
appointment of....

Surgeons at large ports.

list of, who contributed to surgical report.

Surgical cases, report of..

Table of contents...

A-Classified statement of diseases and injuries treated in hospital during
fiscal year ended June 30, 1872, arranged by ports....

B-Showing diseases and injuries of which seamen died during fiscal year
ended June 30, 1872, arranged by ports....

Table of contents-Continued.

C-Showing extent of hospital relief furnished to sick and disabled seamen
during fiscal year ended June 30, 1872; total expenditures and indebted-
ness incurred for the same, and amount of hospital money collected;
arranged by ports.....

D-Summary statement of the operations of the marine hospital service
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1872, as compared with the preceding
fiscal year, 1871.....

72-76

77

E-Showing amounts of hospital money collected, appropriations by Con-
gress to supply deficiencies, and annual expenditures on account of
marine hospital service, from October 1, 1798, to June 30, 1872.......... 78,79
F-Showing amounts of hospital money collected by the Navy Department
from seamen of the Navy, during each year, from 1799 to February 26,
1811....

G-Showing location of each; dates of purchase of site, and commence-
ment of construction; when first occupied; total cost of each, from pur-
chase of site up to June 30, 1872; present condition, if still in possession
of the Government; if sold, amount received.............

Tax. (See "Money.")

Whitaker, E. K., specially commended by supervising surgeon for ability and zeal in the discharge of his duties as senior clerk in the Bureau of Marine Hospital Service....

19

79

80

22