Separate messing facilities are provided for the general camp and hospital. In addition to the general mess hall, three barracks are equipped with a combination kitchen and dining room for aged and infirm members. The mess hall of the branch at one sitting is as follows: General mess hall, 800; combination messes, 340; noncommissioned officers and clerk's mess, 80; hospital general mess, 336; tubercular cottage mess, 275; nurses' mess, 80; total, 1,911. Average number of persons served by waiter at each sitting in above messes is, respectively, 33, 26, 28, 27, 37, 31. Average sittings daily, average number served daily, average number of employees, and cost of rations Cost per capita, special diet, based on average number sick in hospital, $0.0673; cost per capita, special dinners, etc., purchased from post fund, based on average subsisted, $0.3812. The average daily consumption, per man, on some of the food articles, was as follows: Bread, 5.573 ounces; meat and fish, 10.568 ounces; coffee and tea, 1.088 ounces; milk, 1.049 pints; cheese, .174 ounce; oleo, .756 ounce; sugar, 2.798 ounces; cereal, .067 ounce; vegetables, 21.702 ounces. Principal articles of food consumed, quantities of each, and the total cost of same, during the year Operation and average cost per pound of bread, etc., produced Average pounds of bread produced from 100 pounds of flour, 146. LIBRARY Reading room has a capacity of 60 persons, and is open daily between the hours of 8 to 11.30 a. m., 12.30 to 4.30 and 6 to 8 p. m.; Sunday, 8 to 9.30 a. m Eight newspapers and 45 periodicals were supplied; 308 number volumes new books purchased during year; total number of volumes, 12,260. There are three persons employed in the library. Cost of services, $1,488. Twenty-four thousand and two books were circulated or read. RELIGIOUS SERVICES Protestant: The chaplain is a commissioned officer, is furnished quarters, and resides at the branch. The chapel, has a seating capacity of 470 persons; 5 choristers were employed. Regular services were held one time per week; average attendance, 400. Other services, two times per week. The chaplain officiated at 312 funerals, and regularly visited the hospital four times per week. Catholic: The chaplain is not a commissioned officer, is not furnished quarters, and resides outside at the branch. The chapel has a seating capacity of 300 persons; 5 choristers were employed. Regular services were held two times per week; average attendance, 250. Other services six times per week. The chaplain officiated at 61 funerals, and regularly visited the hospital six times per week. CEMETERY There were 414 burials in the cemetery during the year. Total number buried there, 7,926. Total capacity of the cemetery, 8,200 graves. BAND Average number of men in band during the year, 15. Paid from general fund, $12,480; paid from post fund, none; clothing, $165.45; subsistence, $1,212.82; total, $13,858.27. K. MARSHALL, Governor. FORMER OFFICERS OF THE PACIFIC BRANCH FROM JUNE 30, 1919, TO JUNE 30, 1925 Chaplains: Rev. Matthias Kaufman, March 30, 1918, to December 31, 1922, Senior assistant surgeons: Capt. Charles E. Perry, August 26, 1921, to September 15, 1921; Capt. Clyde Leeper, October 6, 1921, to February 19, 1922; Capt. A. C. Weaver, February 16, 1922, to September 30, 1923. GOVERNOR'S REPORT OF THE MARION BRANCH, YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1925 Branch established 1890 by act of Congress approved July 23, 1888. Located near Marion, in Grant County, Ind. Post office address, National Military Home, Ind. The reservation comprises 209.04 acres, of which 107 acres are included in lawns, 4.87 miles of roadways, parks, and cemetery, and 120 acres devoted to garden, farm, and dairy. A dairy is operated with 51 milch cows and 68 in herd. There are 67 buildings on the reservation, including 11 cottage buildings, all brick, maximum capacity, 720 patients; 4 hospital buildings, all brick, maximum capacity, 372 patients; and 52 other buildings, including storehouses, mess hall, power house, theater, chapels, library, etc., of which 20 are brick, 28 frame, and 4 concrete. Land acquired by purchase, cost $34,263.75. Original cost of buildings, $2,352,186.15; appraised value, $2,360,300.53. Utilities Heating: Hot water with 9 boilers, 2,152 horsepower, using 12,387 Lighting: Electricity purchased, 3,600 kilowatt-hours, at $0.04587 Water: Pumped, 142,350,000 gallons, at $0.000008073 per gallon, $1,149.31. Ice: Made, 365.06 tons, at $2.96 per ton. Laundry: 1,242,046 pieces laundered, at $0.00675 per piece.......... Comparative statement Average present, hospital patients.. Maintenance cost per day, hospital patients.. Cost food per day per person subsisted, hospital: Neuropsychiatric mess.. Tuberculosis mess.. Average number subsisted, hospital: Neuropsychiatric mess. Tuberculosis mess. Average present and absent Per capita cost.. |