WAR DEPARTMENT,
Surgeon General's Office,
Richmond, Va., Mar eh 6, 1865.
CIRCULAR,!
No. 26. J
To Medical Directors of Hospitals.
I. Medical Directors of Hospitals will instruct Surgeons, in charge of
Hospitals to report the names of all able-bodied supernumerary Hospital
Stewards, under 45 years of,age, serving in or about hospitals, those not
indispensable to be reported supernumerary. Medical Directors will forward
to this Office a consolidated report of -Surgeons in charge.
II. Medical Directors of Hospitals are directed to instruct the Boards of
Medical Examiners under their authority, that all notices of furloughs, for¬
warded in, accordance with Par. VII. G. 0. No. 69, AfJk I. G. 0. 1863, are
to be signed by a member of the Board, and not by the clerks, who are for¬
bidden to. sign any official paper whatever.
III. The Boards will be further instructed not to sign either certificates,
furloughs or notices of furlough, in blank form: the forms are to be pro¬
perly filled out before sigi^ifoire.
IV. Surgeons in charge of Hospitals vnll be insti^icted to issue notices to
their company commanders of men absent from their command, on detailed
duty, or furloughed, who become patients in their Hospitals.
jt&rgne«l) SAM'L PRESTON MOORE,
Surgeon General C. S. A.
Surgeon Wm. A. Carrington,
Medical Director, Richmond, Va.
OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR,
C. S. Hospitals in Virginia,
Richmond, March 10, 1865.
The foregoing Circular of the Surgeon-General is communicated to the
Medical Officers in this Department for their information and observance.
WM. A. CARRINGTON,
Medical Director of Gen. Hospitals in Va.
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