Army Medical Statistics, &C (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...emergencies as they arise in every campaign. A daily state will show for each regiment and corps the strength, sick, admissions, discharges to duty, and to general hospital, as well as the deaths, every day, for the use of the principal medical officer and the commanding officer. A weekly report on the plan of that at home will be prepared; any part of which will be made at any time confidential by the Commander in Chief; but a complete copy must be sent at the shortest intervals to the Director General, who will forward a copy with comments to the Secretary for War. Arrangements, already described, will be made, so as to show the sick and the deaths in the general hospitals or elsewhere, belonging to each regiment. An elaborate and useful classification of wounds was drawn up by Deputy Inspector General Taylor, C.b., in the Crimea; he has since introduced some improvements; and we think that, with certain modifications, it may be used in the field. Wounds in action must be invariably distinguished from accidental wounds of every kind in the admission and discharge book. The names, &c, of all the men killed in action, must be entered under the proper date in the admission and dis 366. c 4 charge charge book; so, also, must the names of all men missing, if there is good reason to believe they have been killed. The names and the particulars of all the wounded must be entered in the admission and discharge book, and care must be taken to state in what action the wound was received. The nature of the wound must be briefly described, naming the parts wounded, and, when it can be ascertained, the weapon and the arm of the enemy by which the wound was inflicted. The wounded must be classed so as to show--See Forms I. The number of men wounded by (1) gunshot, s...