(CIRCULAR No. 13.)
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                        SURGEON  GENERAL'S OFFICE,
                                 Washington, December 5, 1862.

  I.. The attention of Medical Directors is called to the numerous cases
of neglect in the transmission of the Weekly Report of Hospitals, and
the Monthly Report of sick and wounded.
  In future they will require medical  officers in charge of hospitals to
forward to their office the Weekly Hospital Report, on the last day of
each week;  and they will promptly forward them to this office, accom-
panied by a list of such officers as have neglected  this duty.
  They will also require the Monthly  Report of sick and wounded to
be forwarded to them, and will transmit them to this office, duly filled
up, as to date and place, and also accompanied by a list  of names of
those officers who may have failed to forward these required reports.
  Medical Directors will see  that the Surgeons under their  direction
are kept duly supplied  with  blank forms  necessary for the above
reports.

  II..Medical Directors having supervision of several General Hos-
pitals, will require from the Surgeon in charge of each hospital, a daily
Report of such changes as may have taken place during the preceding
day.  This Report will state the name, company, and regiment of each
soldier admitted, returned to duty, discharged, transferred to other hos-
pitals, died, &c, &c, and  these  names will,  from time to  time, be
recorded in a book  kept  for that purpose  in the office of the Medical
Director.
  Every facility will be afforded the agents of the Sanitary Commission,
and the friends of sick and  wounded soldiers in procuring such infor-
mation concerning the inmates of hospitals, as they may, from time to
time, desire.
  III..Surgeons in charge  of General Hospitals will, upon receipt of
this circular, report to the commanders of companies the names of any
soldiers of their company deceased, or discharged from  the service,
while in their hospital, and concerning whom  these reports have not
been duly made. 
  These Reports will strictly conform to paragraphs 152 and 170, Gen-
eral Regulations, to which, for the future, particular attention must be
paid.

  IV..Persons detailed for duty in any capacity in General Hospitals,
by Medical  Officers in charge, without proper authority, will  not be
recognized at this Office as hospital  employes, and Medical Officers so
employing  them will  be  personally responsible  for the wages  due
them.
  They Avill also be held pecuniarily responsible for any payment over
their signature made to cooks and laundresses in excess of the number
authorized by Regulations to the hospital under their charge.

  V. .Medical Officers are explicitly informed that Regulations  on the
above  subjects have been written and published  to be observed by
them, and the various infractions which, from time to time, they have
allowed themselves to make, have not been overlooked in the past, nor
will be for the future.
                                         W.  A. HAMMOND,
                                               Surgeon General. 
 
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