REPORT OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE, 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. The amount of the appropriation for the medical and hospital department remaining on the 30th of June was: In the hands of disbursing agents... Amount appropriated per act approved July 17, 1861... Amount refunded into the treasury on account of medical and $6,006 62 41, 172 92 1, 271, 841 00 1, 000, 000 00 125, 000 00 $330 60 954 50 330 43 240 00 18 32 1,874 35 2, 445, 894 89 Of this sum there has been expended on account of pay and other claims of private physicians— 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 seneral'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: |