day and subsistence. Transportation furnished to and from the place of service.

Amount of luggage limited within small compass.

Dress plain (colors brown, grey, or black), and, while connected with the service, without ornaments of any sort.

No applicants accepted for less than three months' service; those for longer periods always have preference.

Approved:

WILLIAM A. HAMMOND,

D. L. DIX.

Surgeon-General.

CIRCULAR NO. 9.

Much negligence having hitherto prevailed with regard to the quarterly reports of sick and wounded, and the accompanying sanitary letter, it is hereby ordered

I.—That all medical officers in charge of regiments or detachments of troops or of general or other hospitals, transmit forthwith to this office their quarterly reports for the quarter ending June 30, 1862.

II.-That all such officers diligently inquire whether the reports and sanitary letters of their command, for former quarters of the year commencing July 1, 1861, and ending June 30, 1862, have been duly forwarded to this office, and where this duty has been omitted, that they make out, if possible, such quarterly reports for the omitted quarters, from the records in their possession. Where the records are incomplete, letters will be written similar to that called for in the following paragraph:

III. Each regimental surgeon of volunteers will prepare and forward to this office, as soon as practicable, a letter containing a brief summary of the medical history of his regiment from the time it was mustered into the service of the United States to the close of the year ending June 30, 1862.

This letter will contain the following information, viz.: (1.) A brief summary of the movements of the regiment, with sanitary descriptions of the several camp sites occupied, especially of those occupied for any considerable time; (2.) Remarks on the condition of the regiment as to food and clothing during the period; (3.) A brief sketch of the epidemics, if any, from which it may have suffered, with an outline of the symptoms, and of the treatment found most useful; (4.) A statement, from the regimental books, of the original strength of the regiment; the number of recruits who have since joined; the number of deaths from wounds and from disease; the number of discharges from service for disability; and the actual strength of the regiment on June 30, 1862, in the following form:

Regiment. For duty.

On sick In general On
Other
report. hospital. furlough. absentees.

TOTAL.

Any other facts may be added which are regarded as of value in the preparation of the medical and surgical history of the war.

IV. Each Medical Officer in charge of a hospital, beside supplying from the hospital records all omitted quarterly reports, as directed in paragraphs I. and II., will prepare and forward to this office, as soon as possible, a letter containing the following information, viz.: (1.) The date at which the hospital was organized, by whom, and by whose order; (2.) Its location and a sanitary description of its site and surroundings; (3.) A description of the building and its several internal arrangements, accompanied by plans to make the description intelligible; (4.) Remarks on the fitness of the building for hospital purposes and the advantages and disadvantages of the plan; (5.) An account of any epidemic diseases which may have been treated in the hospital, with an outline of the symptoms and of the treatment resorted to, and of the appearances disclosed at post-mortem examinations, when held; (6.) A tabular statement of the surgical operations performed in the hospital, the injuries rendering them necessary, and the results, with any accounts of cases or other matters which may be deemed valuable contributions to the medical and surgical history of the war.

V. It is hoped that Medical Officers will exert themselves to supply the information above called for as speedily as possible, and thus contribute their share to supply the existing deficiencies and to facilitate the collection of necessary information by the Department.

WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, Surgeon-General, U. S. Army.

CIRCULAR NO. 10.

Surgeon-General's Office,
August 25, 1862.

I.-Immediately upon receipt of this circular, the Medical Officers of the Regular Army, and the Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons of Volunteers, will report by letter to this office their stations, or the duties to which they are assigned, and hereafter will report promptly any orders involving change of station, reporting the date of their departure and that of their arrival at their new station.

Upon the last of every month a similar report will be made.

II. The Surgeon-General directs that official letters addressed

to him by Medical Officers of the Army be written on letter paper (quarto post); also, that the letter be folded in three equal folds, parallel with the writing, and endorsed on that fold which corresponds with the top of the sheet-1st, with the name of place where written, and date; 2d, name and rank of writer; and 3d, analysis of contents.

All official communications relating to the business of the Medical Inspector's Department will be sent, under cover, to the Surgeon-General, marked on the cover "Medical Inspector's Department."

IIL-In accordance with a recent Act of Congress, the Corps of Brigade Surgeons becomes the Corps of Surgeons and AssistantSurgeons of Volunteers. The official designation and signature of these officers hereafter will be "Surgeons or Assistant-Surgeons of Volunteers," as the case may be.

IV.-Hereafter copies of all contracts made with physicians by Medical Directors or others will be immediately sent to this office.

All physicians employed on contract by the Medical Department will provide their own surgical instruments. Such instruments may be procured from Medical Purveyors, their value being deducted from the pay of the physician procuring them within the first three months after contract. The Medical Purveyors issuing instruments to contract physicians will immediately notify this office of the fact, and the money value of the instruments furnished.

V.-Physicians employed on contract will be paid on duplicate accounts in the usual form, certified to by the Medical Director, commanding officer, or surgeon in charge of hospital where service charged for was performed. These accounts will be sent to this office for approval, from whence they will be sent to the Treasury Department, by which certificates of indebtedness will be issued on which Medical Purveyors or other disbursing officers are authorized to pay. Officers certifying to such accounts will state whether or no the services were performed in the field, and whether the instruments were duly provided.

VI.-Civil nurses employed on contract will be paid by Medical Purveyors on rolls certified to by Surgeons in charge of hospitals or Medical Directors. Their pay will be $20.50 per month, and they will receive one ration per day, and the sime allowance 'of clothing as a private soldier of infantry. Two dollars of their pay per month will be retained until the expiration of their term of service; the fact of such money having been retained being endorsed on the back of the contract. Their clothing will be issued to them by Medical Officers-the clothing account being kept in the manner prescribed by regulations for the soldier. On the contract shall be endorsed all facts ordinarily endorsed upon the descriptive list of a soldier.

VII.-Acting Medical Cadets will in no instance be mustered or paid as contract nurses. The attention of all Medical Officers

employing Acting Medical Cadets is called to this prohibition of a practice fraudulent in itself, and degrading to the office of the Medical Cadet.

VIII. The want of printed blanks is no valid excuse for not making Requisitions, Returns, and Reports required by Regulations. When there are no printed blanks, the style, classification, order, and nomenclature of the Supply Table, and of the prescribed forms, will be observed. Copies of Medical Regulations and printed blanks for Requisitions, Returns, and Reports of Sick and Wounded, may be procured by application to the Medical Director; Hospital Rolls and Certificates of Disability for Discharge, by application to the Surgeon-General.

IX.-Many Medical Officers, both regular and volunteers, have partially disregarded previous eirculars issued from this office. These circulars are explanatory orders, and, in future, officers neglecting to comply with their directions will be proceeded against for disobedience of orders.

WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, Surgeon General, U. S. Army.

CIRCULAR No. 11.

Surgeon-General's Office,

Washington, August 5, 1862.

The attention of Medical Directors, and officers under their control, is called to the following requirements in relation to contracts with private physicians and their accounts, in which great irregularity exists at present:

1st. Contracts with private physicians should mention whether the service is to be rendered at a post or hospital, or in the field; or they may be made to include both hospital and field service, the sum per month agreed to be paid for each kind of service being distinctly stated. If at a post, the rate of monthly pay should be regulated by the strength of the command; if at a hospital, by the number of sick; and in neither case should it exceed $100. In the field, it should not exceed $125. (See Paragraphs 1268 and 1269, Revised Regulations, and Paragraph 1, General Order, No. 65, Adjutant-General's Office, June 12, 1862.)

2d. Every contract should be so made that it cannot be terminated by the private physician contracting, within a period of less than three months from the date of contract.

3d. A duplicate of every contract as soon as executed, should be forwarded to this Office.

4th. In cases where the services have been rendered in the field, the certificate appended to the account should state that fact, otherwise the increased allowance for field service cannot be paid.

5th. All accounts for service should be in duplicate, and should be certified by the Commanding Officer of the force with which the physician is serving, or the Surgeon in charge of the hospital, and approved by the Medical Director of the Division, Army Corps, Army, or Department.

6th. The signature of the certifying officer should be placed immediately below the certificate, and not, as now frequently occurs, in some other part of the account, thus leaving the certificate unsigned.

WILLIAM A. HAMMOND,

Surgeon- General, U. S. Army.

I. The attention of Medical Directors is called to the numerous cases of neglect in the transmission of the Weekly Report of Hospitals, and the Monthly Report of Sick and Wounded.

In future they will require medical officers in charge of hospitals to forward to their office the Weekly Hospital Report, on the last day of each week; and they will promptly forward them to this Office, accompanied by a list of such officers as have neglected this duty.

They will also require the Monthly Report of Sick and Wounded to be forwarded to them, and will transmit them to this Office, duly filled up, as to date and place, and also accompanied by a list of names of those officers who may have failed to forward these required reports.

Medical Directors will see that the Surgeons under their direction are kept duly supplied with blank forms necessary for the above reports.

II.-Medical Directors having supervision of several General Hospitals, will require from the Surgeon in charge of each hospital a daily report of such changes as may have taken place during the preceding day. This report will state the name, company, and regiment of each soldier admitted, returned to duty, discharged, transferred to other hospitals, died, etc., etc., and these names will, from time to time, be recorded in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the Medical Director.

Every facility will be afforded the agents of the Sanitary Commission, and the friends of sick and wounded soldiers, in procuring such information concerning the inmates of hospitals, as they may, from time to time, desire.

III.-Surgeons in charge of General Hospitals will, upon receipt of this circular, report to the commanders of companies the names of any soldiers of their company deceased, or discharged from the service, while in their hospital, and concerning whom these reports have not been duly made.

These Reports will strictly conform to paragraphs 152 and 170, General Regulations, to which, for the future, particular attention must be paid.

IV.-Persons detailed for duty in any capacity in General Hospitals, by Medical Officers in charge, without proper authority, will not be recognized at this Office as hospital employés, and