No. 11. General estimate of the sums required for the support of the nary for the fiscal year commenting on the 1st day of July, 1852, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1853. No. 12. General estimate of the sums required for the support of the Marine Corps for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1852, and ending June 30, 1853. For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, clerks, messengers, stewards, servants, &c., for rations and clothing for servants; subsistence and additional rations for five years' service of officers; for undrawn clothing and rations; bounty for re-enlistments and pay for unexpired terms of previous enlistments. For provisions for marines serving on shore. For clothing... For fuel. For military stores, repairs of arms, pay of armorer; for accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drams, fifes and musical instruments.. For transportation of officers and troops, and expenses of recruiting... For repairs of barracks and rent of temporary barracks and offices. For contingent expenses, viz: freight, ferriage, cartage, and wharfage; compensation to judges advocates; per diem for attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry; for eonstant labor; house rent in lieu of quarters; burial of deceased marines; printing, stationery, forage, postage, pursuit of deserters; candles, oil, straw, furniture, bed-sacks, spades, shovels, axes, picks and carpenters' tools; expense of a horse for messenger; pay of matron, washerwoman and porter for the hospital at beadquarters.. Estimated for 1852-53. Estimated for 1851-52. Appropriated for 1851-52. No. 13. General estimate of the sums required for special objects under the Navy Department for the fiscal year commencing on the 1st day of July, 1852, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1853. Heads of appropriation. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and civil establishments of navy-yards and stations. For nautical books, maps, charts, and binding; instruments and repairs thereof, and all expenses of the Hydrographical Office....... For improvement and repairs at navy-yards and stations For repairs of hospital buildings and their dependencies. 1,024,359 99 955,090 00 559, 178 00 65,730 90 -89,787 00 39,787 00 For repairs of magazine buildings and their dependencies 1,850 00 For improvement and repair of buildings and grounds and support of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. 49,700 00 164,148 00 79,200 00 For transportation of the mail. 1,023,250 00¦ 874,600 00 874,600 00 For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac. 19,400 00 19,400 00 19,400 00 For constructing a floating dock at San Francisco, California .360,000 00 150,000 00 Total.. 2,681,220 89 2,210,980 00 1,867,690 00 BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. NAVY DEPARTMENT, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, October 31, 1851. SIR: I have the honor to submit, herewith, estimates of the several sums required for the support of this bureau and the medical department of the naval service, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1853. Balance of appropriation, "surgeons' necessaries and appliances," remaining Amount appropriated by act of Congress, approved March 3, 1851... $15,560 00 87,600 00 43, 105 99 188,941 41 8,270 00 37,600 00 Below is a statement collated from the sick reports received from hospitals, and other stations within the United States, during the year ending June 30, 1851. Stations. The statistics deduced from the returns of squadrons show the following result, as nearly as can be ascertained, for the year ending 1850: September 30, It will be seen, by the exhibit above presented, that the health of our naval forces, both ashore and on foreign stations, has been somewhat above the ordinary standard. The returns received at this office from vessels abroad, for the past year, though not sufficiently copious to be given in a statistical form, exhibit, I am happy to say, a still more favorable view, as to their sanitary condition. To the excellent medical police recommended by the medical officers, and generally enforced by those in command, are we mostly indebted for our happy exemption from the epidemic diseases which formerly infested our ships. The importance of investing in some interest-bearing government stock a portion of the naval hospital fund, now lying unproductive in the treasury, having been noticed in your last annual report, it is needless to repeat the arguments in favor of the plan. Another reason might now be found in the great reduction of this fund, which is going on in consequence of the law enacted at the last session of Congress, in relation to the commutation of "stopped rations," on board ship. Since the practice of crediting the undrawn rations to the hospital fund has been discontinued, one source, from which it was largely recruited, has become unproductive; and it must, unless the proposed investment be made, be altogether exhausted. I feel it my duty to repeat the recommendations offered in my report of 1849, for the establishment of an asylum to accommodate the insane of the navy. The reasons then urged in its favor continue in full force. The number of insane now in the naval hospitals amounts to fourteen. They are a source of constant annoyance to the other invalids; and the facilities for a proper treatment of their maladies can nowhere be found in any of these institutions. |