Average cost of the ration: Services, $0.08985; supplies, $0.3348; total $0.42465. Purchases: Contracts, formal No. 66, $120,561.18; open market No. 304, $53,414.76; L. of A. No. 374, $28,773.55.

NOTE.-Average cost per capita obtained by eliminating from "general expenditures," "sales, etc.," "effects of deceased members," and "alterations, improvements, and increased equipment;" and including T. A. P. members in the average present. Average cost per ration obtained by adding value of farm products transferred to subsistence to the expenditure under subsistence for service and supplies (less sales), figured on the average subsisted, including members, T. A. P. members and civilians.

Of above balance $17,697.01 is standing to the credit of deceased members.

Actual number of pensioners cared for (from total deduct the number gained by change of rate), 905.

Post fund

RECEIPTS

Balance brought forward..-.

Store, sales, etc.-

Hotel and restaurant, sales, etc..

Amusements, entertainments, etc..

Check No. 6458 canceled, authority president board of managers, let

ter dated Aug. 15, 1924

Miscellaneous..

Posthumous pension fund..

Posthumous fund, act June 25, 1910

Transferred from general fund..

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Members are admitted to all entertainments, and have the privileges of the clubhouses, games, and library, free of charge.

There were given 454 band concerts, 141 motion-picture shows, 38 baseball

games, and 5 theatrical performances.

Under this head there was expended:

141 motion-picture shows

38 baseball games-

5 theatrical entertainments..

Books, etc., and clubroom equipment.

For services, members of band and other employees, authorized..

Total____

$3, 378. 87

1, 500. 00

185.00 1, 453. 10 3, 557. 40

10, 074. 37

The expenditure from post fund for amusements and welfare of members amounted to $10,074.37, a per capita of $15.72, figured on the average present:

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT

The hospital is divided into 27 wards and has a capacity for 361 patients. Quarters for convalescents provide for 114 and tubercular cottage for 43 patients. There are 4 assistant surgeons, 7 female trained nurses, and 2 male nurses. On June 30 there were 167 patients in hospital, 106 sick in quarters, and 38 members at sick call. There were 194 vacant beds in hospital on that date.

Average present sick, number treated, number of deaths, etc., for the year ending June 30, 1925, and for the prior fiscal year were as follows:

Causes of death during the year, and number of deaths from each cause

Number of operations performed during the year: Major, 34; minor, 3,925; total, 3,959, of which 217 were salvarsan intravenous.

Average number of hospital employees: Male, 68; female, 18; total, 86.

Amount expended from appropriation for hospital during the year

The appropriation for farm includes expenditures in the upkeep of roads, cemeteries, lawns, parks, greenhouses, flower gardens, stables, dairies, feeds, purchases of all animals, and all supplies used and services required in connection with these places.

Stable. Average number of public animals kept during the year 11 horses; appraised value, $2,200. Purchased during the year, 2. Number and kind of public vehicles in use, 12 dump carts, 1 manure spreader, 13 sleds, 9 wagons, 1 sprinkler, 1 carriage, 2 ambulances and 1 motor ambulance.