could have been desired, but every effort has been made by this department under its late and lamented chief,* and since his death, to distribute the funds furnished as impartially as possible.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

CARY H. FRY,

Acting Paymaster-General, U. S. Army.

SURGEON-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

November 10, 1862.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

SIR: I have the honor to lay before you a statement of the fiscal transactions and a report upon the operations generally of the Medical Department of the Army for the fiscal year ending on the 30th of June, 1862:

Amount of appropriation for the medical and hospital

department remaining on the 30th of June, 1861:

In the hands of disbursing agents................. $6,006.62

In the Treasury of the United States.............. 41,172.92

Amount appropriated per act approved

July 17, 1861.......................................1,271,841.00

Amount appropriated per act approved

February 25, 1862.................................. 1,000,000.00

Amount appropriated for deficiency to June 30, 1862,

approved February 25, 1862......................... 125,000.00

Amount refunded into the Treasury on account of medical

and hospital stores sold at auction:

S. D. Morrison.................... $330.60

John Moore....................... 954.50

E. H. Abadie...................... 330.43

J. D. Cotton...................... 240.00

Samuel Elliott................... 18.82

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1,874.35

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2,445,894.89

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Of this sum there has been expended on account of pay

other claims of private physicians:

Contracted in 1861............... $35,052.91

Contracted in 1862............... 86,597.76

On account of medicines,

instruments, hospital stores,

bedding, &c.....................2,249,462.52

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2,371,113.19

And in the hands of disbursing agents. 74,781.70

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2,445,894.89

It has been usual for a report of the sickness and mortality of the Army to accompany this report; but it is found impracticable, arising from the vast amount of labor incident thereto, and will be furnished, it is believed, in time for publication as a 'supplement to the Surgeon-General's report for the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1862," In the meantime, however, I am enabled to present the following statement of general hospitals and the number of patients, according to the latest returns received at this office.+

The number of general hospitals is thus seen to be 151, and the total number of patients in them 58,715.

During the past year the health of the troops has been remarkably excellent. No epidemics of any severity have appeared among them,

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*Colonel Benjamin F. Larned, who died September 6, 1862.

+For detailed statement (here omitted) see House Executive Document No. 1, Thirty-seventh Congress, third session, pp.51-54.

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