Soldiers' Home, D. C.-Continued.

Property accountability, 657.
Quarters, 638, 644, 646, 653, 654.

Ration cost, 646.

Rebellion, war, veterans of, 635, 636.

Receipts and disbursements, 634, 643, 650, 655.
Relief, destitute discharged soldiers, 634-640.
Relief, destitute ex-volunteer soldiers, 635, 636.
Religious services, 653.

Remarks:

Board of Commissioners, 633, 636.
Breckenridge, Brig. Gen. J. C. 651-674.
Governor of the Home, 636-638.
Inspector-General, 551-674.
Miles, Maj. Gen. N. A., 633-636.
Stanley, Brig. Gen. D. S., 636-638.

Sanitary condition, 635-643.

Secretary and treasurer's report, 643-650.
Sick in hospital, 635, 637, 638, 643, 661.
Societies, 653.

Sources of income, 634.

Subsistence, 634, 641, 644, 655.

Supplies on hand in hospital, 671, 672.
Supplies purchased by contract, 665–667.
Surgeon's report, 638-643.

Transportation, 644, 646, 655, 656, 660, 670.
Treasurer's accounts, 634.

Treasurers and Secretary's report, 643–650.
Trials and discipline, 635, 638, 652.
Value of farm products, 649.

Vegetables, from farm and garden, 649–667.
Vegetables purchased, 667, 668.
Water supply and system, 659.
Remarks, Inspector-General:
Amusements, 652.

Band, 653.

Barracks and buildings, 653.
Bathing facilities, 653.

Beds and bedding, 654.

Billiards, 652.

Blind members, 662.

Clothing allowance and issue, 658.

Coffins, 661.

Cost of hospital ration, 661.

Daily consumption of food, 660.

Dairy, 660.

Deaths, 661.

Disbursements, 654.

Discipline, 652.

Diseases, 661.

Disposition of worn-out clothing, 658.

Employees, 657.

Expense per capita, 217, 656.

Farm, 659.

Fire department, 659.

Funerals, 661.

Garden, 660.

Hospital, 661.

Hospital employees, 662.
Insane members, 661.
Interest on savings, 218.

Keeping of accounts, 218.

Laundry, 658.

Library, 653.

Management and condition, 217.

Medicines, 662.

Members, 651.

Soldiers' Home, D. C.-Continued.

Remarks, Inspector-General--Continued.
Membership, 217.

Messing, 660.

New construction, 651.
Officers, 651.

Outdoor relief, 218, 656.

Patients, 661.

Pensioners and pension fund, 218, 655.
Permanent fund, 217, 655.

Property, 657.

Purchases, 658.

Receipts and expenditures, 655.
Religious services, 653.
Societies, 653.

Swill and garbage, 660.

Treasurer's business methods, 654.
Unserviceable property, 657.
Vehicles and animals, 660.

Water supply, 659.

Southern Branch, National Home:
See Branch Homes.
Remarks, Col. D. Bache:
Air space, 1056.
Barracks, 1055, 1058.

Central bath house, 1056, 1058.
Central medical control, 1059.
Convalescent company, 1058.
Hospital, 1056, 1059.

Hospital records, 1057, 1059.
Hospital staff and employees, 1056.
Latrines, 1056.

Medical administration, 1059.
Medical supplies, 1057, 1059.

Torpedo for harbor defense, 913.

Sounds of North Carolina:

Waterways connecting Dismal Swamp Canal
with:

Appropriation for survey of, 61.

South Fork Cumberland River, Ky.:
Appropriation, improving, 64.

South Haven, Mich. :

Appropriation, improving harbor at, 57.

South Pass, Mississippi River:

Constructing jetties and other works at:
Appropriation, 63.

Examination and surveys at:

Appropriation for, 63.

Southwark Foundry and Machine Co.:

Contract for mortar carriages, 24.

Disappearing gun-carriage contract, 23.

Special Diseases:

Prevalence of, in the Army:

Alcoholism, 472-477.

Reports of:

Bache, Assistant Surgeon-General, 472.
Bratton, Asst. Surg. T. S., 475.

Munson, Asst. Surg. E. L., 476.

Special Diseases-Continued.

Prevalence of, in the Army-Continued.

Diarrheal diseases, 471.

Diphtheria, 424.

Influenza, 423.

Malarial diseases, 453-471.

Reports of:

Reed, Surgeon Walter, 454.

Smart, Surgeon Charles, 465.

Measles, 423.
Mumps, 424.

Pneumonia and pleurisy, 477.

Remarks, Surgeon General, 422–479.
Rheumatic affections, 477.

Scarlet fever, 422.

Spotted fever, as reported from Idaho, 448.
Tuberculosis of the lungs, 477.
Typhoid fever, 431, 440, 443.
Reports of:

Bushnell, Asst. Surg. G. E., 432.
Cleary, Surg. P. J. A., 447.
De Witt, Surg. C., 443.

Kilbourne, Surg. H. S., 447.

McCaw, Asst, Surg. W. D., 446.
Maus, Surg. L. M., 440.

Venereal diseases, 472.

Special Funds:

National Home:

Remarks, Inspector-General, 213, 982.

Special Inspectors:

See Colleges.

Inspector-General's Department, 101, 224.
Special Reports:

List of medical and surgical, 481-484.
Specimens, Army Medical Museum:

Remarks, Surgeon-General, 396-398.

Spokane, Fort, Wash.:

Means of communication, 97.

Position and distribution of troops, etc., 90.
Remarks, Col. E. S. Otis, 158.

Spokane, Wash.:

New military post at:

Remarks, Quartermaster-General, 279.
Site for new military post near.
Remarks, Secretary of War, 37.
Sponsel Rapid-Fire Gun:

Mentioned, 913.

Spotted Fever:

As reported from Idaho, 448, 453.

Springfield Armory, Mass.:

Location, etc., 98.

Output, capacity, etc., 35.

Remarks, Col. R. P. Hughes, 220.

Remarks, Secretary of War, 35, 36.

Springfield Arsenal, Mass.:
Appropriations, 52.

Squan River, N. J.:

Appropriation, improving, 60.

Squier, Lieut. G. 0.:

Method of studying ballistics, introduced by, 107.
Polarizing photochronograph, 927, 937.

Stadimeter:

Fiske, Lieut. B. A., mentioned, 914.

Staff Corps Reorganization:

Remarks, Secretary of War, 8.

Staff Departments:

Publication of manuals of duties of, etc., 8, 9.
Reference to, Department of Texas, 170.
California, Department of, reference to, 164.

Platte, Department of, reference to, 176.
Stamford, Conn. :

Appropriation, improving harbor at, 55.
Standard Base-End Instruments:
Mentioned, 912, 923.

Stanley, Brig. Gen. D. S.:

Governor, Soldiers' Home, D. C., 651.
Stanton, Brig. Gen. T. H.:

Paymaster-General, 585.

Stanton, Fort, N. Mex.:

Abandoned, 141.

Dismantling of military telegraph line, 595.

Post discontinued and garrison withdrawn, 5.
Stark, Assistant Surgeon, A. N. :

Report of triplets, 479.

State-Aid Funds:

Remarks, Inspector-General, 215.

State Homes:

Removal of unaided absentees from rolls of, 988.

State Troops:

See Militia; National Guard.

As heavy artillery, 132.

Remarks, Secretary of War, 17-19.

States and Territories:

Issues to militia by Q. M. Dept., 275.

War claims of:

Appropriations, refunding expenses, etc., 67.

State or Territorial Homes:

For disabled soldiers and sailors:
Appropriations for, 67.

Stationery :

Appropriation for War Department, 50.

Statistical Tables, National Home:

Allowances of officers and employees, 1066.
Amusements, 1069.

Band, 1071.

Barracks, 1080, 1081.

Billiards, 1071.

Blind members, 1090.

Card tables, 1071.

Census at date of inspection, 1067.

Clothing, 1081, 1082.

Coffins, 1087.

Commissary department, 1084, 1085.
Compensation of employees, 1676.
Crockery, 1085.

Deaths, 1087.

Dining halls and kitchens, 1084.
Discipline, 1068.

Diseases, 1086.

Employees under general fund, 1076.
Engineer department, 1083.

Farm, 1073.

Fire department, 1083.

Food consumed, 1084, 1085.

Funds received, 1079.

Funerals, 1087.

Gain in average members present, 1068.
General fund, 1074.

Hospital employees, 1087.

Improvements and repairs, 1077.

Stores:

Pensioners and pension fund, 1078, 1079.
Per capita expense, 1076.

Per cent of deaths to average sick, 1088.
Per cent of sick to average present, 1089.
Personnel reported at inspection, 1068.
Population, 1066.

Post-fund business, 1077.

Post-fund employees, 1076.
Principal articles of food, 1075.
Property, 1081, 1082, 1084.

Quartermaster's department, 1080–1082.

Rags and clippings, 1082.

Religious services, 1073.
Societies, 1072.

Storehouses, 1081, 1084.

Swill and garbage, 1085.

Theater, 1071.

Vehicles and animals, 1073.

Water supply, 1083.

Statistical Tables:

Medical, etc., United States Army, 531-575.

Statistics, Medico-Military, Uniformity in:
Remarks, Surgeon-General, 420.

Statistics, National Home:

Difficulty of obtaining accurate:
Remarks, Inspector-General, 980.

Statues:

Attendants at colleges, 194, 201-206.
Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wis.:

Appropriation, harbor of refuge at entrance of,
58.

Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal:
Appropriation, improving, 64.

Sturtevant, T. L.:

Floating battery of, mentioned, 913.

Submarine Net for Harbor Defense:

McMillan, Peter, mentioned, 913.
Submarine Boat:

Pesce, G. L., mentioned, 913.
Submarine Defenses:

Expenditure of appropriation for, 22.
Submarine Mining Material:

Allotment for purchase of, 934.

Subsistence:

Of the Army:

Appropriations, 51.

Appropriations for 1897, 3.
Estimates for 1898, 3.
Expenditures for 1896, 3.
Subsistence Department:

See Commissary Department.

Annual report, 313–389.

Expenditures for advertising, 316.
Extra duty, service in, 316.
Financial statements, 313-316.

Purchasing stations discontinued, 316.
Roster of, June 30, 1896, 320.
Remarks:

Burton, Col. G. H., 120.
Commissary-General, 313-320.
Inspector-General, 120.

Subsistence Depots:

Remarks, Inspector-General, 219.

Subsistence Sales:

Remarks, Inspector-General, 120.
Subsistence Stores:

Issues to destitute citizens, 316.

Handbook of, 318.

Issues to Indians, 316.

Losses of property and, 316.

Sales of property and, 317, 318.

Sales of, etc., 317, 318.

Subsistence Stores and Supplies:

Remarks, Secretary of War, 9.

Subsistence Supplies:

National Home:

Remarks, Inspector-General, 984.

Suisun Bay, Cal.:

Appropriation, survey of, 58.

Summary Court Act:

Legislation suggested, 239, 240.
Summary Courts-Martial:

See Courts-Martial.

Inferior courts.

Biscayne Bay and Palm Beach, Fla., 62.
Canal connect'g Lake Erie and Ohio River, 64.
Canal connecting Lake Superior and Missis-
sippi River, 62.

Civil, appropriations, 67.

Deep-water harbor, Gulf of Mexico, 65.
Delaware River, bet. Phila. and Camden, 60.
Mouth of Sacramento River, Cal., 58.
Mouth of San Joaquin River, Cal., 58.
Ohio River, below Pittsburg, Pa., 64.

Pacific Coast, between Points Duma and Ca-
pistrane, 58.

San Francisco Harbor, 58.

San Pablo Bay, Cal., 58.

South Pass, Mississippi River, 63.

Straits of Carquinez, Cal., 58.

Suisun Bay, Cal., 58.

Waterways connecting the Dismal Swamp

Canal with sounds of North Carolina, 61.

Susquehanna River:

Appropriation for improving:

Near Havre de Grace, Md., 60.

Sutcliffe, O. A.:

Flying battery of, mentioned, 913.

System of Fire Control:

See Board on Regulation of Sea-Coast Artillery

Fire.

Symphyseotomy:

Report of Asst. Surg. J. R. Kean, 479.

Tables, Inspector-General's Reports:

See Exhibits, Soldiers' Home Report; Statistical
Tables, National Home.

Appropriations, National Home, 215-217.
Cavalry and artillery horses condemned, 126,
College inspectors, 224.

Concentration of troops, 105.

Desertions by inspection districts, 106.
Disbursements, 210.

Extremes in cost of certain Q. M. supplies, 119.
Home and pension funds, Soldiers' Home, D. C.,
654.

Issues to mess hall and hospital, Soldiers' Home,
D. C., 660.

Number of inspections of accounts and amount
involved, 211, 212.

Per cent present at inspections, Army posts,

104.

Permanent fund, Soldiers' Home, D. C., 655.
Posthumous fund, National Home, 216.
Profit of exchanges, 115.

Rate of compensation of Q. M. employees, 219.
Ratio of employees, Soldiers' Home, to expendi
tures and membership, 657.

Receipts and disbursements. Nat'l Home, 215.
Receipts and expenditures, Soldiers' Home, D.C.
655.

Relation between disbursements, transfers,

deposits, and balances, 211.

Relation of balances to average monthly dis-
bursements, 211.

Return of troops at date of inspections, 103.
State aid funds, 215.

Summary of work performed, 101.

Tablets:

Battle lines and sites for, at Antietam.

Appropriations, 50.

Tablets or Monuments:

At Gettysburg:

Appropriations, 50.

Tableware and Cooking Utensils :

Expenditures, Quartermaster's Dept., for, 278.

Tallahatchee River, Miss.:

Appropriation, improving, 62.

Tallapoosa River, Ala.:

Appropriation, improving, 62.

Tampa Bay, Fla. :

Appropriation, improving, 56.
Tar and Pamlico Rivers, N. C.:
Appropriation, improving, 61.

Targets, Artillery:

Seo Artillery Targets.

Target Practice:

See Small-Arms Target Practice.
California, Department of, 164.
Military colleges:

Remarks, Inspector-General, 232.
Platte, Department of, 172.

Remarks, Maj. Gen. Commanding, 73.

Target Range:

For Fort McPherson, Ga.:

Remarks, Quartermaster-General, 277.

Target Ranges:

See Rifle Ranges; Shooting Galleries and Ranges.
Land for, Fort McPherson, Ga.:

Appropriation for purchase of, 51.

Taunton River, Mass.:

Appropriation, improving, 59.
Taylor, Capt. H. C., U. S. N. :
Mentioned, 179.
Taylor, Fort, Fla. :
Location, etc., 97.
Tehula Lake, Miss. :

Appropriation, improving, 62.

Tea:

Pacific Branch, National Home:

Remarks, Inspector-General, 1016.

Teche, Bayou, La. :

Connecting Grand Lake at Charenton, La., with:
Appropriation for, 63.

Telegraph:

To connect the Capitol with the Depts., etc.:
Appropriations, 51.

Telegraph and Telephone Apparatus:
See Telephone, etc.

Telegraphic Communication:

Remarks, Adjutant-General, 198.

Telegraph, Lewis Dial:

See Lewis, Lieut. I. N.

Telegraph Lines, Military :

Appropriation, Signal Service, 66.

Construction of, between Cedar Springs and
Mammoth, Ariz., 596.

Construction of, between important military
posts, etc., 596.

Dismantled at Fort Hancock, Tex., and Fort

Stanton, N. Mex., 595.

Importance of, to commercial interests, 596.
Length and location of, 609.

Number of messages handled on, 596.

Projected, between Bisbee and San Bernardino,

Ariz., 596.

Receipts and tolls for messages on, 596.

Remarks, Chief Signal Officer, 595.

Value of, in Indian affairs, 597.

Telegraphing for the Army:

Remarks, Quartermaster-General, 277.
Telemeter:

Cuenod, E., mentioned, 913.
Unge, mentioned, 934.

Telephone and Telegraph Apparatus:

Devised by Capt. James Allen, 598.

Remarks, Chief Signal Officer, 598.

Signaling through disabled cable with, 599.
Tests of, 599.

Telescopic Sights:

Best, Lieut. C. L., 914, 934.

Parkhurst, Lieut. C. D., 914, 937, 938.
Scott, 934.

Ten-inch B. L. Rifle:

Capacity of Bethlehem Iron Co. to produce, 929,
Capacity of Midvale Steel Works to produce
forgings, 928.

Capacity of Watervliet Arsenal to produce, 931.