PERSONNEL.

COMMISSIONED MEDICAL OFFICERS.

At the commencement of the fiscal year, July 1, 1915, the commissioned corps consisted of the Surgeon General, 1 assistant surgeon general at large, 12 senior surgeons, 70 surgeons, 39 passed assistant surgeons, and 63 assistant surgeons.

The changes during the fiscal year were as follows: One surgeon was promoted to grade of senior surgeon to fill a vacancy. Seven passed assistant surgeons were promoted to the grade of surgeon, 3 assistant surgeons to the grade of passed assistant surgeon, and 8 candidates who passed the examination required by the laws and regulations of the service were commissioned assistant surgeons. On account of physical disability, 3 surgeons and 2 passed assistant surgeons continued on waiting orders and 1 senior surgeon and 2 surgeons were placed on waiting orders. Of this number, 2 have died during the fiscal year.

At the close of the fiscal year, the commissioned medical corps consisted of the Surgeon General, 1 assistant surgeon general at large, 13 senior surgeons, 72 surgeons, 37 passed assistant surgeons, and 63 assistant surgeons. One senior surgeon and five surgeons were upon detail in the bureau as assistant surgeons general, in accordance with the act approved July 1, 1902.

Assignments. Among other assignments of commissioned medical officers during the fiscal year were the following: Twenty-seven were assigned to exclusive immigration duty, their services being supplemented by employment of acting assistant surgeons; 5 to the quarantine service of the Philippine Islands; 11 to vessels of the Revenue Cutter Service; 22 to the quarantine stations in the continental United States, Porto Rico, and the Hawaiian Islands; 3 to duty in foreign coutries to prevent the introduction of epidemic diseases into the United States.

Special details.-One commissioned medical officer continued on detail duty under the Governor of the Panama Canal. Surg. John D. Long was continued as chief quarantine officer and director of health of the Philippine Islands.

Field investigations of public health. In accordance with the act of Congress approved August 14, 1912, authorizing the service to study and investigate the diseases of man, and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof-including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution either directly or indirectly of the navigable streams and lakes of the United States-the following officers and

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corps of special assistants were detailed to make these special investigations:

Plague-eradicative measures.-The following officers were detailed for duty in plague-eradicative measures in the State of Louisiana, California, and Washington:

Public-health laboratories were established at different stations of the service for the prevention of the interstate spread of disease, and the carrying out of sanitary measures, as follows:

Prevention of introduction typhus fever from Mexico. The following officers were detailed for duty in the prevention of the introduction of typhus fever from Mexico:

Surg. B. J. LLOYD, in charge, El Paso, Tex.
Asst. Surg. E. W. SCOTT, Laredo, Tex.
Acting Asst. Surg. J. W. TAPPAN, El Paso,
Tex.

Acting Asst. Surg. H. B. Ross, Del Rio,
Tex.

Acting Asst. Surg. LEA HUME, Eagle Pass,
Tex.

Acting Asst. Surg. H. J. HAMILTON, La-
redo, Tex.

Acting Asst. Surg. J. H. HUNTER, Rio
Grande City, Tex.

Acting Asst. Surg. W. P. WOODALL, Hidalgo,
Tex.

Acting Asst. Surg. G. D. FAIRBANKS,
Brownsville, Tex.

Acting Asst. Surg. A. L. GUSTETTER, No-
gales, Ariz.

Acting Asst. Surg. B. C. TARBELL, Naco,
Ariz.

Acting Asst. Surg. E. W. ADAMSON, Doug-
las, Ariz.

Personnel, Hygienic Laboratory.-At the close of the fiscal year there were on duty in the Hygienic Laboratory, in addition to the director and assistant director, 3 chiefs of division, 8 surgeons, 2 passed assistant surgeons, 1 assistant surgeon, 2 pharmacists, 1 artist, 6 technical assistants, 3 sanitary bacteriologists, 1 organic chemist, 1 sanitary chemist, 1 sanitary engineer, and 34 attendants.

Quarantine inspector.-One quarantine inspector served throughout the entire year.

Acting assistant surgeons.-The services of 8 acting assistant surgeons have been discontinued during the fiscal year, 4 have died, and 21 have been appointed, leaving on duty at the end of the fiscal year 250 such officers. In addition to this number, 63 physicians have been employed locally for the medical relief of superintendents, keepers, and surfmen of the United States Coast Guard, and 5 acting assistant surgeons have been continued for the physical examination of these employees.

Medical inspectors.-One female inspector served during the entire year for the inspection of women passengers at Honolulu, Hawaii.

Internes.-At the beginning of the fiscal year, there were 21 interns on duty at the various marine hospital stations, 28 were appointed, and 30 were separated from the service by reason of resignation, leaving 19 on duty at the close of the fiscal year.

Pharmacists. At the beginning of the fiscal year there were on duty 50 pharmacists, divided as follows: Pharmacists of the first class, 27; second class, 15; third class, 8. One pharmacist of the third class was appointed and 1 resigned. One pharmacist of the second class and 2 of the third class were promoted, leaving at the close of the fiscal year 50 pharmacists on duty, as follows: Pharmacists of the first class, 28; second class, 16; third class, 6.

Pilots and marine engineers.-At the beginning of the fiscal year there were on duty 17 pilots and 20 engineers; 3 pilots resigned and 2 were appointed; 4 marine engineers resigned and 1 was appointed. The number on duty at the close of the fiscal year was as follows: Pilots, 16; marine engineers, 17.

Hospital and quarantine attendants.-At the beginning of the fiscal year 1,418 attendants were employed at the various marine hospitals, quarantine stations, and on epidemic duty, including 65 such employees on duty in the Philippine Islands, and at the close of the fiscal year there were so employed, as follows:

Forty-five boards were convened at different times and at various stations through the United States for the physical examination of officers of the Coast Guard and applicants for entrance therein, 9 for the physical examination of detained aliens, 12 for the examination of commissioned officers to determine their fitness for promotion to the next higher grades of the service, 15 for examination of applicants for appointment as assistant surgeons, and 6 for the examination of pharmacists to determine their fitness for promotion to a higher grade.

The bureau sanitary board has been convened in 20 sessions to pass upon reports of inspections of establishments engaged in the manufacture of vaccines, serums, toxins, etc., prior to recommending a license, and to pass upon advertised remedies and appliances to determine if said advertisements should be excluded from the mails. Two boards were convened under paragraph 56 of the service regulations for the physical examination of an officer of the service.