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SANITARY REGULATIONS.

The water supply is abundant for all purposes and the bathhouse still adequate for bathing purposes, but the question of the inadequacy of our sewage system is still a troublesome one.

There were 134,896 baths taken at the general bathhouse during the year.

The services of the English Protestant Church have been conducted as usual during the year. The chaplain, Rev. J. W. Lerch, officiated at 179 funerals. The Sunday afternoon German service has been regularly conducted by the Rev. E. Light.

The Woman's Christian Association of Dayton has held services on every alternate Sunday afternoon in the Home Chapel, immediately after the close of the German service, and on Tuesday of each week at the hospital.

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The services of the Catholic Church have been conducted regularly by Rev. Dr. C. S. Kemper, Catholic chaplain, who has also officiated at seventy six funerals. pital visitations are regularly made by both Protestant and Catholic chaplains.

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There has been expended on commissary building, $32,140.

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ANNUAL REPORT OF NORTHWESTERN BRANCH, NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1890.

NORTHWESTERN BRANCH,

NATIONAL HOME DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS,
Milwaukee, July 30, 1890.

GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following report of this Branch for the year ending June 30, 1890:

The number cared for during the year was 2,981 as against 2,716 for 1889, and the average number present and absent for this year was 2,420 as against 2,164 for 1889. The maximum number present was 2,050, March 10, 1890; the minimum number present was 1,663, July 1, 1889.

We have erected a new chapel on the grounds at a cost of $10,000, which sum was paid from the post fund. Service is held twice a week by the Protestant chaplain, and Saturday afternoons and Sunday morn. ings by the Roman Catholic chaplain. We also have services semimonthly in the German language by ministers from Milwaukee. The chapel is also used by other denominations and the Woman's Christian Union from time to time.

The amusements provided for in memorial hall covered several months, from November until May. We had a weekly entertainment at a cost of $2,796, paid from post fund. No admission is charged to the members of the Home.

Our band concerts in summer are given in the open air, and are attended by thousands of the best people of Milwaukee. In winter we have a concert every Sunday evening in memorial ball. Our library now has 5,686 volumes. The new smoking room has two billiard tables, two bagatelle tables, and card tables that will seat one hundred men. This room is occupied to its full extent every day in the year, from 8 o'clock a. m. to 8 p. m. The sale of beer in the Home, in my opinion, greatly tends to the advantage of the Branch and its members.

We have no restrictions on members of the Home leaving the grounds from sunrise until tattoo, and I find, by actual count, that there are within one mile of our grounds forty saloons, and within a radius of two and a half miles over seventy saloons. In many of these places the vilest decoctions are sold to our men. It is called whisky, but is simply poison.

I have for almost four years heard every case (except when absent or ill) in the guard house, and I have yet to find a case where drunkenness could be traced directly to the Home beer hall; of course men become under the influence of liquor there, but in every case that I have investigated I found that the man had been outside and drank something stronger than beer before he came into the ground. I shall refer to this subject again under hospital.

EXPENDITURES.

Current expenses.-The appropriation under this head was $26,788.88, expenditures $26,688.02, leaving a balance of $100.86.

Subsistence.-The appropriation was $103,516.99, expenditures $103,509.49, leaving $7.50.

Our table has been well supplied with everything that the market offered suitable for an institution like this. I have had no complaint as to quality and quantity, and our endeavor has been to get the best of everything at the lowest market value.

Major Rowley, the commissary of subsistence, has given his whole time and attention to this important part of the Home and with every success. The governor has also almost daily inspected the food and kitchen, and has certainly seen no cause for a reasonable complaint. The time is coming when it will be necessary to employ citizen cooks. The members of the Home are getting old and can not cook for 2,300 men in the time that the meals must be served.

Our kitchen and dining room are as complete as they can be made and we can have no trouble, with competent cooks, to supply meals of all the men that the Home can accommodate. Our new bakery is a great success and will compare favorably with any one in the country. Crockery and cutlery are not of good quality.

Clothing. The clothing, with exception of socks, has been of good quality. I would recommend a cotton sock instead of the woolen ones now issued. I think that at this Branch a dress coat should be issued every eighteen months instead of three years, as now. There are only two or three months in the the year when it is safe for our old men to wear the blouse.

By authority of the president of the Board of Managers straw hats were issued to impecunious members of the Home, paid for by post fund. All other members were allowed to buy them at the store at cost price, 30 cents. It has been quite a success in making the men look neat and soldierly, and I would suggest that a black felt hat be issued for winter, and a straw hat or helmet for summer, the cap still to be used for parade and occasions of ceremony.

Household.-Appropriation, $42,932.49; expenditures, $42,927.13. The great item under this head is fuel, the amount expended for this the past year being $26,917.10. I think if we could have all our boilers under one roof this cost would be materially reduced. Bedsteads and bedding and other articles furnished under this head are of good quality. Hospital.-Appropriation, $18,156.72; expenditures, $18,156.52. I am greatly gratified to report that the death rate has been very materially reduced in the last year, it being 36.02 per 1,000 for whole number cared for this year as against 38.29 last year, and 48.63 for year ending June 30, 1888, and 51.71 for year ending June 30, 1887. Of course there must be some reason for this, and while I give full credit to the surgeon, Dr W. H. Leighton, and his assistants, Drs. McIlvain and Fuhrman, for their skill and attention to the men in hospital and general hygiene of the Home, I cannot help but ascribe a part of it to our sale of beer to the members of the Home.

Last year

The number treated at sick call shows a great decrease. the number so treated was 1,491, this year 1,036. At the suggestion of Col. John L. Mitchell, local manager, the Board approved of the employment of woman nurses in the hospital, and I was authorized to make a contract with the Milwaukee Woman's Training School to employ ten nurses in the hospital. They came in the Home on May 15 and took charge of the nursing in the hospital. I believe this institution is the only one of the kind where female nurses are employed, and I am perfectly satisfied from personal examination and inspection that their services are, and will be, of great benefit to the Home.

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