MEDICAL  DIRECTOR'S OFFICE,

                      HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,

                                              New Orleans, December 4, 1863.

Circular.

     The attention of  all Medical Officers,  Department of the Gulf, is called to the
following paragraphs  from Circular No. 7,  Surgeon General's Office, May 7th, 1863 :


     15.  Requisitions for medical and hospital supplies  are to be  made in dupli-
cate,   in preparing them,  medical officers will conform to  the  Standard Supply
Table, both in the articles and quantities asked for, avoiding tractions in quanti-
ties.  When increased quantities or additional articles  are required, satisfactory
reasons therefor must  be assigned,  or they will not be supplied.

    16.  Requisitions  for outfits of medical and  hospital supplies will  be made for
three months, and in the form of a letter, stating the number of men or beds to be
supplied, and  whether for general  hospitals, permanent posts,  or field  service.   If
for permauent posts, the amount of hospital  accommodations must be stated,  so
that, if less than one hundred beds, the allowance of bedding, hospital clothing, fur-
niture and appliances may be correspondingly reduced.

    17.  Requisitions to replenish  medical and hospital supplies will  always be
made in detail, according to Form  8, and for those articles only that are really defi-
cient in quantity.  If  the supplies are  to be obtained from the principal purveying
depots, these requisitions will be made quarterly ;  if from department or field de-
pots, they will be made at such times,  and  for such periods, as the Medical Director
may prescribe.  (Special requisitions are not intended to take the place of the regti -
lar quarterly requisition.  They are only permissible in cases of emergency, and
the  face of the requisition must state  the  circumstances which constitute the emer*
geucy rendering such  special requisition necessary.)

                             R. H. ALEXANDER,
                                     Surgeon United States Army,
   -■■..                                           Medical Director,
                                                      Department of the Gulf.