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IV. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION.

Give number of marine-hospital patients treated during the last fiscal year.

Give number treated during the present fiscal year to date of report.

Give number of patients in hospital on date of inspection.

Number of days' relief furnished marine-hospital patients during the last fiscal

year.

Give average duration of treatment in hospital.

Give number of out-patients during the last fiscal year.

Give number of out-patients during the present fiscal year to date of report.

In your opinion, are marine-hospital patients sent to hospital who might be treated at the office?

Give the ratio of hospital to out-patients during the last fiscal year.

Give the ratio of hospital to out-patients during the present fiscal year to date of report.

Does the method of caring for and disposing of the effects and moneys of seamen conform to the regulations?

Does the amount of money on hand correspond with the record (Form 1950)?

V. REMARKS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.

I certify that the foregoing is a careful and correct statement of the condition of the Service at the port of — inspected by me this

day of

189-.

Surgeon, U. S. M. H. S., Inspector.

REPORT OF INSPECTION OF STATIONS OF CLASS 3.

Instructions to inspector.

1. Your visit to the station should be unannounced.

2. Upon arrival at the port you will first call upon the acting assistant surgeon and arrange with him for an inspection of the hospital, which should be made as soon after arrival as practicable.

3. You will then visit the office where out-relief is furnished.

4. You will then call upon the collector of customs, if that officer issues relief certificates, and examine the records of the same.

5. You will make appropriate entries to each question of this inspection blank and forward to this office upon the completion of your duty.

WALTER WYMAN,

Supervising Surgeon-General U. S. Marine-Hospital Service.

Name of relief station.

I. PERSONNEL.

Name of acting assistant surgeon.

Date of appointment.

Number of employees.

Names, pay, and dates of appointment.

Name of contractor furnishing quarters, etc.

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How long has contract been held by present party?

Is there competition for it annually?

What is the charge per diem?

When was the station last inspected?
Name of inspecting officer.

II. HOSPITAL.

Location of building used as hospital.

Is it used entirely for hospital purposes; and if not, for what other purpose is it used?

Describe general construction.

Are the marine-hospital patients treated in separate wards?
Describe the wards occcupied by marine-hospital patients:
(a) Dimensions.

(b) Number of beds in each ward.

(c) Cubic air space allowed each patient.

(d) Heating.

(e) Lighting.

(f) Ventilation.

Hospital furniture:

(a) What kind of bedsteads, and what kind of mattresses and bedding?

(b) Report upon the condition of bedding used by marine-hospital patients.

(c) Are the beds clean and free from vermin?

What is the condition of wards as to general cleanliness?

Is the nursing sufficient, and is the nurse employed trained to the duties?

Is the character of the diet furnished the same or equal to that prescribed in the diet table for marine hospitals?

If not, what is the ordinary diet furnished?

Is extra diet furnished for special cases?

Are the patients under treatment in hospital correctly recorded in the register, and are all present?

If any marine-hospital patients are not at hospital at time of examination, state why.

What is the practice in regard to allowing marine-hospital patients to leave the hospital?

Are they allowed to remain out over night?

Are the cases under treatment proper ones for hospital relief?

Are medicines administered to patients by the nurses or left with patients for self-administration?

III. OFFICE OR OUT-RELIEF.

Is the room for the examination of marine-hospital patients suitable for the purpose?

Location and distance from hospital.

Is it kept clean and in order?

Is it satisfactorily equipped for dispensary purposes?

What are the facilities for reaching the hospital?

Is the supply of medicines sufficient?

What is the condition of the public property (furniture, medicines, implements, instruments, etc.)?

What records are kept?

Are they correctly kept and up to current work?

Are copies of reports kept on file?

IV. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION.

Give number of marine-hospital patients treated during the last fiscal year.

Give number treated during the present fiscal year to date of report.

Give number of patients in hospital on date of inspection.

Number of days' relief furnished marine-hospital patients during the last fiscal

year.

Give average duration of treatment in hospital.

Give number of out-patients during the last fiscal year.

Give number of out-patients during the present fiscal year to date of report.

In your opinion, are marine-hospital patients sent to the hospital who might be treated at the office?

Give the ratio of hospital to out-patients during the last fiscal year.

Give the ratio of hospital to out-patients during the present fiscal year to date of report.

V. REMARKS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.

I certify that the foregoing is a careful and correct statement of the condition of the Service at the port of inspected by me this 189-.

day of

Surgeon, U. S. M. H. S., Inspector.

REPORT OF INSPECTION OF STATIONS OF CLASS 4.

Instructions to inspector.

1. Your visit to the station should be unannounced.

2. Upon arrival at the port you will first call upon the acting assistant surgeon, if there be such officer, and arrange with him for an inspection of the hospital, which should be made as soon after arrival as practicable.

3. You will then visit the office where out-relief is furnished.

4. You will then call upon the collector of customs, if that officer issues relief certificates, and examine the records of the same.

5. You will make appropriate entries to each question of this inspection blank and forward to this office upon the completion of your duty.

WALTER WYMAN,

Supervising Surgeon-General U. S. Marine-Hospital Service.

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III. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION.

Give number of marine-hospital patients treated during the last fiscal year.

Give number treated during the present fiscal year to date of report.
Number of days' relief furnished marine-hospital patients during the last fiscal

year.

Give average duration of treatment in hospital.

Give number of out-patients during the last fiscal year.

Give number of out-patients during the present fiscal year to date of report.

In your opinion, are marine-hospital patients sent to the hospital who might be treated as out-patients?

Give the ratio of hospital to out-patients during the last fiscal year.

Give the ratio of hospital to out-patients during the present fiscal year to date of report.

What are the facilities for transporting patients to the nearest marine hospital?

IV. REMARKS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.

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Surgeon, U. S. M. H. S., Inspector.

MARINE HOSPITALS. -STATEMENT BY STATIONS OF REPAIRS MADE

AND NEEDED.

The following is a statement of repairs and alterations made during the fiscal year and of repairs and alterations still needed at the several marine hospitals:

Hospital at Baltimore, Md., (erected 1887).-Surg. George Purviance makes the following report of repairs and improvements at this hospital station.

A new disinfecting building has been completed at a cost of $1,864, and the wards have been refurnished with new bedside stands, medicine cases, wheel tables, bed cradles, and window shades. Awnings have been placed on the surgeon's house and on the executive building.

The operating room has been refurnished with a complete new outfit of the newest pattern.

In addition, general repairs to the hospital have been made, at a cost of material only.

Under the head of ordinary repairs required during the ensuing fiscal year, which may be chargeable to the appropriation “Repairs and preservation of marine hospitals, 1900," the medical officer in command recommends the following as necessary: Painting surgeon's house and repairs to porches and posts of ward buildings, $200; repairs to plumbing, $50; gravel for walks and driveways, $500.

Hospital at Boston, Mass. (erected 1860).—Surg. Fairfax Irwin makes the following report of repairs and improvements at this hospital station:

Repairs to heating apparatus, $242; repairs to roof, $60; miscellaneous minor repairs, $52.10. In addition, repairs to plumbing and woodwork have been performed by hospital attendants, at a cost of material only.

Under the head of improvements or unusual repairs for the ensuing year, for which a special appropriation must be made, the medical officer in command reports the following needed improvements: Laundry building, $5,000, including removal and reestablishment of present plant. The laundry machinery is now located in the basement of the main building, and the action of the machinery is causing injury to the partition walls, owing to vibration.

Under the head of ordinary repairs required during the ensuing fiscal year, which may be chargeable to the appropriation "Repairs and preservation of marine hospitals, 1900," the medical officer in command recommends the following as necessary: Relaying tile floor, four verandas, 2,000 square feet, $1,200; for painting ironwork, verandas, $200; new floor, laundry, $125; renewing pavement, south entrance hospital, $100; material for miscellaneous repairs, to be done by hospital attendants, $568.

Hospital at Cairo, Ill. (erected 1885).-Surg. P. C. Kalloch makes the following report of repairs and improvements at this hospital station:

Miscellaneous repairs to plumbing, $182.74; miscellaneous repairs to heating apparatus, $141.89; miscellaneous repairs to buildings, $202.43; painting interior of surgeon's house, $115; combined sterilizer and washer, $822.78; water filter, $406.50; buildings wired for electric lights, $170.81; private ward furnished for officers, $50; steam pipes covered with asbestus magnesium sectional covering, $284.54.

Hospital at Chicago, Ill. (erected 1873).—Surg. II. W. Sawtelle makes the following report of repairs and improvements at this hospital station:

Cement sidewalk, stone walls, and fences on north and south sides of the reservation have been constructed, at a cost of $6,895; repairs to heating apparatus, $254.71; miscellaneous minor repairs, $209.50

Under the head of improvements or unusual repairs for the ensuing year, for which a special appropriation must be made, the medical officer in command reports the following needed improvements: Quarters for medical officer, $12,000 (to provide for necessary rooms for attendants in main building, now occupied by surgeon); electriclight plant, $8,000.

Under the head of ordinary repairs required during the ensuing fiscal year, which may be chargeable to the appropriation "Repairs and preservation of marine hospitals, 1900," the medical officer in command recommends the following as necessary: Cement flooring in kitchen, $257; repairing stone flagging of porches, $125; repairs to water-closets, $475; new flag pole, $175; repairs to walk, $150; new floor (ward F), $150; repairing stone party wall, $280; repairs to plastering, $248; painting hall ways (four floors), $1,100; painting and whitewashing basement (at cost of material), $100.

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