12th Infantry. 14th Infantry. 22d Infantry.. do 18th Infantry- Original vacancy. vice Chandler, promoted. vice Dickinson, promoted. vice Wright, promoted. Vacancy vice the adjutant to be appointed. 24th Infantry. 22d Infantry 73 John F. Stephens. 10th Infantry. 74 Howard L. Laubach 23d Infantry. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 10, 1898. No. 116. The following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: Medical officers in charge of general hospitals, hospital trains, hospital transports, and the hospital at the camp at Pablo Beach, Florida, and at the hospital at the camp at Montauk Point, New York, will be allowed to expend from the appropriation "Subsistence of the Army," for the diet of the enlisted men undergoing medical treatment under their charge, at the rate of not exceeding sixty cents per man per day for the period each is undergoing treatment. The allowance so made will constitute a special fund in the hands of the medical officer in charge, from which will be purchased the entire diet of the enlisted men while undergoing medical treatment. These purchases will be restricted to articles of food, solid and liquid, the quantities and varieties of which will be determined by the medical officer in charge. Chief commissaries of departments will transfer to medical officers in charge such subsistence funds as may be estimated for by the latter for carrying out the objects of this order. There will be rendered monthly to the Commissary General of Subsistence, by the medical officers concerned, regular accounts current supported by vouchers showing the application of these funds, and regular returns of subsistence stores accounting for the articles of food purchased and issued. There will be submitted with each monthly return a tabular statement showing the number of patients present during the month as shown by the hospital records, and the money value of the articles issued to and consumed by them. The statement will be so arranged as to show the actual cost of subsistence per man per day for the month. Transfers of subsistence funds from one hospital, train or transport to another without authority of the Commissary General of Subsistence, and the purchase from subsistence funds of articles other than food intended for diet of the sick, are prohibited. This order will go into effect at once, and all surplus funds in the hands of medical officers in charge, arising from the commutation of rations heretofore allowed to enlisted men undergoing treatment under their charge, will be taken up on their accounts current for the month of August, and all articles purchased from such commutation remaining on hand unconsumed on receipt hereof will be taken up on their returns of subsistence stores for that month. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 117. H. C. CORBIN, WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 10, 1898. In order to prevent as far as possible the diseases incident to encampments of large bodies of men, namely: typhoid and malarial fevers, diarrhea and dysentery, and the further spread thereof where these diseases have already gained more or less headway, all officers, from the commanding general to company commanders, will exercise the utmost vigilance to enforce proper sanitary conditions in camp and strict cleanliness of the person. The speedy destruction or removal with safety of all decaying substances present and future, and the rendering innoxious the feculent matter of the camp, must be accomplished. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish lumber for floors to all tents. The general commanding camp will at once provide ample hospital facilities by erecting barracks where there is a shortage of hospital tents. No effort will be spared to carry this order into effect to the fullest extent, and to this end those concerned will not rest content with the issuance of orders upon the subject, but they or their representatives, duly impressed with this grave responsibility, will immediately see to the commencement, continuance, superintendence, and practical accomplishment, day by day, of the instructions imposed upon the command. The attention of all concerned is called to Army Regulations concerning interior economy, police, and discipline of companies, to Circular No. 1, Surgeon General's Office, April 25, 1898, to "Marches" and Camping" in the authorized |