WAR DEPARTMENT, 
SmniTg ©Hire, 
Washington, D. C., August 25, 18G8. 
CIRCULAR ORDERS, 
No. 4. 
On and after the 31st of December, 1868, a Sanitary Report will be 
prepared by the Senior Medical Officer on duty at a Post on the 31st of 
December and the 30th of June of each year. These Reports are to be 
made on Forms furnished from this Office, (Form 48) and are to be for- 
warded in duplicate to the Medical Director of the Department, who will 
forward one copy, with his comments, to the Surgeon General, and retain 
the other for the files of his Office. With the first Report, viz., that of 
December 31st, 1868, Medical Officers will forward a Special Report 
describing in detail the post, buildings, water supply, drainage, etc. 
This Report should contain the information and data which have been 
obtained for and entered in the " Record of the Medical History of the 
Post," already furnished to Post Surgeons from this Bureau. 
order of the Surgeon General: 
Assistant Surgeon General, U. S. Army.