24th Congress, r 7 1 2d Session. •* IROM THE ■^b^KS**1 SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, Relative to the location of Marine Hospitals; in obedience to a resolu- tion of the Senate of the 15th June, 1836. Oecembeh T, 1836. Read, and ordered to be printed. Treasury Department, December!, 1836. Sir: In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 15th of June last, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report " such in- formation as he may be able to obtain, together with his own opinion respecting the points or places in tohich it may be most expedient or necessary to establish marine hospitals for the relief of sick and disa- bled seamen," I have the honor to transmit a printed circular, marked A, addressed to certain collectors of the customs, showing the meas- ures taken by the Department to obtain the information desired, to- gether with all the answers to the same which have been received, and which are numbered from 1 to 15, (B.) For further details, hav- ing an important bearing upon the whole subject, I would respectfully refer to the following documents, heretofore transmitted to the House of Representatives under former resolutions, and which are believed to embrace all the information accessible to the Department, viz: Docu- ments No. Ill and No. 260, 1st session 24th Congress, and No. 7, 2d Session 23d Congress, in Senate. (C. Nos. 1, 2. and 3.) Introduc- tory to the expression of any opinion in respect to the points or places in which it may be most expedient or necessary to establish marine hospi- tals, I would remark that, without other pecuniary aids for the support of such establishments than are afforded by the present legislative enactments for the relief of seamen, the Department could not recom- mend any measure which would materially add to the present charges upon the fund created by the act of 16th of July, 1798. Its resources are well known to be insufficient to bear any additional burden. Any opinion, therefore, which I would advance in regard to the propriety of erecting public hospitals at particular places, are to be understood, in the first instance, as subject to this qualification, and as having reference to the capacity of the fund as at present constituted. Coming within this principle and enforced by other considerations claiming primary at- [Gales 8c Seaton, print.] [ 7 ] 2 tention*?fl the location of Government hospitals for the reception of sick and disabled seamefl/argfr-t,■-, 1st. A proper regar,dvto' climate, and She effects which, from that caus^and the influen/Q, of pecidiar localities, more or less affect the health of our ©itios4> 2d. Their relative impMr'tnnce'in- a.commercial point of view, and the consequent congregation of seamen (herein in greater or less numbers. It is believed that there are no new points on our extensive coast where such establishments are more imperiously required, or where they would be more extensively useful, than at New Orleans, Mobile, and New York. These reasons apply with some force to the city of Savan- nah and to some of (he ports of North Carolina. It may be doubted, however, whether the support of such establishments at the hitter places would not cause a considerable addition to the expenditures liom the fund. Another consideration entitled to regard in the location of insti- tutions of this kind, is, the existing facilities or means afforded by Gov- ernment hospitals already established or by local institutions i;i the dif- ferent States and cities for procuring the necessary provision. In this respect the places referred to are comparatively deficient. At Newr Orleans, the Government is dependent upon an institution managed and controlled by a private individual. At Savannah and Mobile, it is con- strained to resort to municipal alms-houses, and in the ports of North Carolina, to rely entirely on private boarding-houses. Government hos- pitals, under the sanction of the national Legislature, are already provided at Boston, Norfolk, and Charleston, and, with a few exceptions, means are found in the local institutions of all the principal Northern cities for procuring the aid required on moderate terms. It will be seen, how- ever, from the communications which accompany this report, that they are regarded as essentially necessary at Newport and New Bedford, as well as some other places. The Department is fully aware, as well of the inconvenience result- from a dependance upon local establishments as of the inadequate pro- vision afforded, in many instances, by such institutions; and in thus designating certain places where, in its opinion, for the reasons as- signed, they are more imperiously required than at others, would not be understood as overlooking the just claims of other sections of the Union, arising either from their contributions to the support of the fund or the want of local hospitals, to a participation in the advantages of such establishments. So far from it, there are, doubtless, many others, where they might be judiciously located, and where, from the 'absence of suitable local provision and accommodation, they are much required, if adequate means were provided for their support. It should be borne in mind, however, that the capacity of the fund is limited, and that the humane objects proposed are not more effectually promoted by the erec- tion of public edifices for the cure of the sick at the healthy points, where seamen are generally domiciled, and where, from that cause, their contributions are usually collected, than at the distant points to which their vocations necessarily lead them, and where they are not only more in need of friendly care, but more exposed to disease. The foregoing remarks are intended to apply to engaged seamen in the foreign or coasting trade. To what extent, or at what places similar in- 3 [ 7 ] stitutions may be required within the interior district, embracing the Western rivers and lakes, the Department cannot speak with confidence. Doubtless, the want of charitable edifices for the reception of the sick habitually employed in the navigation of our Western rivers and lakes, and others whose avocations constantly lead them through these great thorough- fares, is sensibly felt, and it is not to be questioned that great benefits would result to the cause of humanity were such establishments pro- vided at convenient points. It is apparent, however, that the multipli- cation of such establishments for the exclusive accommodation of boat- men, would cause a heavy addition to the already overburdened condi- tion of the fund. Moreover, the policy of establishing and sustaining them by the United States, for other purposes than for the use of boat- men, seems questionable, and suggests whether the subject is not one which more appropriately addresses itself to the State or municipal au- thorities where it. may be thought such institutions are indispensable. But, in the other view, that Congress should deem it proper to in- crease the present contributions to this fund by making them more for each person, and by enlarging the number of persons required to pay a proportionate share, I have no doubt that hospitals might be ne- cessary and judicious at several other points. Among the most promi- nent in such case, beside those before named, and our present hospitals at Charleston, S. C, Norfolk, Va., and Boston, Mass., would be Port- land, Me., Washington district or some other in North Carolina, Buf- falo on Lake Erie, Louisville, Ky., and St. Louis, Missouri. In such change of the law, so as to furnish adequate means, and also patients for the hospitals, it is presumed that Congress would still find it expedient to adhere to the former principle which has prevailed in relation to this subject, of allowing none to be admitted free or without charge for the benefits of them, but such as had contributed to the fund itself. Any other course would, in the opinion of this Department, in- troduce a novel if not dangerous principle into the system, and not be likely to receive the deliberate sanction of Congress. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Hon. Martin Van Buren, President of the Senate. [ 7 ] 4 A. Treasury Department, June 23, 1836. Sir: I subjoin a resolution of the Senate, dated the 15th instant, touching the location of public hospitals for the relief of sick and disa- bled seamen. It is addressed to you for the purpose of eliciting any iniormation within your own knowledge or which may be accessible to you from other sources, in reference to the expediency of such establishments on the water-courses or lakes within your State or district, which it may be in your power to communicate; and particularly in reference to the points or places where, by reason of the congregation of seamen in great numbers, salubiity of position, or other local advantage, it may be most expedient and necessary to establish such institutions. It is desirable that any information which you may be able to give on the subject of the resolution should be transmitted to the Department on or before the first day of November next; and that as many detailed facts bearing on the inquiry as can be obtained with accuracy should be imbodied into your reply. I am, respectfully, sir, Your obedient servant, LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. In Senate of the United States, June 15, 1836. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury report to the Senate, at the commencement of the next session of Congress, such information as he may be able to obtain, together with his own opinion, respecting the points or places in which it may be most expedient or necessary to estab- lish marine hospitals for the relief of sick and disabled seamen. Attest: W'ALTER LOWRIE, Secretary. B 1. Collector's Office, District of Portland and Falmouth, Portland. November 4,1836. Sir : In reply to your circular of the 23d June last, I can only say that I have no means of knowing the necessity of a marine hospital in any place in Maine, excepting in this city. Here are congregated a much greater number of seamen than in any other place in Maine; and it has long been expected that the General Government would erect one here. Your knowledge of the situation of Portland, and the necessity of such an establishment, render it unnecessary for me to say more on the subject. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, JOHN CHANDLER, Collector. Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury. 5 17 1 B 2. Collector's Office, District of New Bedford, October 21, 1836. Sir : In reply to your communication of June 23, in relation to marine hospitals, I have the honor to report that the number of seamen employed in this district in the various departments of foreign and coasting trade and fisheries, cannot probably fall short of 6,000. Of this number six hundred and fourteen paid hospital money during the last year, amount- ing to $546 70 ; and hospital relief was afforded to fifteen, at an expense of $290 20. These six hundred and fourteen seamen were those em- ployed in the foreign and coasting trade; the remainder were employed in the fisheries, and not paying hospital money, are, according to the practice which prevails in most, if not all of the fishing districts, deprived of the benefits of the hospital establishment, even though they may have for years previously paid hospital money in the merchant service, it being understood that a man coming last from a whaling voyage must be con- sidered as a fisherman. The whaling ships arriving at this port bring many seamen who stand in need of medical assistance. Probably the proportion of such is as great as of those in the merchant service. Indeed, I am informed by the overseers of the poor, upon whom the care of such seamen devolves, that their number will average at least one hundred and twenty per an- num, and this number will still not inc'ude some forty or fifty who be- come the legitimate objects of certain local charities, or of private benev- olence. If, then, it should be desirable to extend the benefits of a marine hos- pital to all persons actually following a sea-faring life, and who have not, by long residence on shore, become the proper objects of municipal care, it would be necessary to provide in this vicinity for the accommodation of at least one hundred and eighty or two hundred patients per annum ; and it is believed that fully that number will be furnished out of those sailing from this district alone. The location of such an establishment should be fixed at a very short distance from the town of New Bedford ; because nine-tenths of the sea- men who would seek admission to it would arrive in this harbor, and be- cause medical assistance could be had from this town at a cheaper rate than it would cost if its location were such as to make it necessary to appoint a surgeon to reside in the house; and I have reason to believe that decidedly the most eligible situation within many miles of New Bed- ford might be obtained at a low price, and perhaps gratis, for this purpose. The town's poor-house is situated upon a large farm upon Clark's point, near the light-house, about a mile and a half from the centre of the town, and the farm extends entirely across the point from east to west. The poor-house is upon the western side of the farm. The lot which I should select for a hospital is upon the eastern side of the farm, and can be ap- proached by boats from the shipping at any time, or by a good carriage- road from the town; and, in point of salubrity of situation, can be ex- ceeded by no spot in New England. An hospital at this place would be [ 7 ] 6 within two or three hours' sail of all the harbors upon the Vineyard Sound, and patients arriving at (hose harbors, who would probably re- quire attention for a protracted period, might be very easily conveyed almost to the door of the hospital by water. I am, sir, with great respect, Your obedient servant, LEMUEL WILLIAMS, Collector. Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury. B 3. District and Port of Newport, Collector's office, October 13, 1836. Sir : In answer to your circular of June 23, I have the honor to re- port, that the experience of many years has fully proved that the estab- lishment of a marine hospital at this port, on a liberal scale, would materially conduce to the comfort and relief of that class of men for whose benefit the act of July 16, 1798, was passed. It is a fact well known to mariners that this port is always accessible, and can be entered at times and with winds that present a free ingress to other harbors. Of this knowledge they avail themselves when thrown upon our coast in the stormy months of winter : frequently, within sight of their port of destination, after standing off and on until their crews are completely exhausted, they are compelled to bear up for Newport, and here, reduced by disease brought on by exposure and sufferings such as no other class of our citizens are called on to endure, very often frost-bitten and in the last stages of human misery, they are landed, and I wish it was in my power to say, comfortably accommodated. But such is not the fact. Under the present arrangement, and at the rates of board and nursing now authorized, none but the most common hovel can be procured for their reception, and, in narrow, ill-contrived, unventilated cells, poorly lodged, and in-every respect inadequately provided for, seamen have to struggle on as they can, and it is matter of astonishment that, with the means provided, the surgeon is able to effect as many cures as he does. Another local advantage that this port possesses over those that are situated higher up the bay is, that it is not liable to be blocked up by ice, whereas Providence, Bristol, and Warren, are frequently subject to this inconvenience. In certain seasons this is a great rendezvous for coasting and fishing craft. Vessels too from foreign ports frequently touch here for orders, &c, and others from Southern and unhealthy sections of the country, for clean bills of health, all necessarily bringing together a large number of seamen whose situation may require hospital relief. The United States already possess an unexceptionable site for an insti- tution of the kind proposed. If to these be added its acknowledged " salubrity of position" and pe- culiar fitness for recruiting the invalid, it is presumed that no point on 7 t'J our coast presents higher claims for the " location of a public hospital for the relief of sick and disabled seamen" than Newport. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, WM. LITTLEFIELD, Collector and agent Marine Hospital. Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury. B 4. Collector's Office, Richmond, Va., November 2, 1836. Sir : Your letter on the subject of the location of public hospitals for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, dated on the 23d June last, was duly received at this office, and would have been replied to before the 1st instant, as requested, but from my necessary absence from town, and not returning until last night, and also for the delay of the enclosed com- munication on the subject, which I have been expecting for some time, but which, from its date, you will perceive has but lately been received: I have from time to time, since the receipt of your letter, made such in- quiries as I hoped would enable me to give the necessary information, but the accompanying letter from Dr. Pleasants is the only reply I have received in answer to my inquiries. It appears to me that, in the selection of a site for an hospital, regard should be had to the healthiness of the situation, its contiguity to the port where the vessels generally discharge and take in their cargoes, the fa- cility with which medical aid can be procured, and the convenience of removing the patients from the vessels to the hospital. In this district,' most of the vessels coming in stop at Bermuda Hundred, which, at first sight, would appear to be the most eligible situation ; particularly as the Government owns a half-acre lot there, on which the necessary build- ings might be erected at perhaps less expense than anywhere else ; but the general unhealthiness of the whole country in that neighborhood, during the summer and fall months, I think, is an almost insuperable ob- jection to the location of the hospital there, although if the choice should be between Bermuda Hundred and City Point, from the best information I can obtain, City Point is the more objectionable site of the two. Some. point in the city of Richmond, on account of health and medical attend- ance, would be", in my opinion, much the most eligible ; but then the fa- cility of procuring ardent spirits, and the opportunities of the seamen, in a state of convalescence, getting into dissipation of all kinds, being so much greater in the city than in the country, create very strong ob- jections in my mind, to its location. Upon the whole, then, if a healthy situation, some few miles from the city, in the forest, a mile or two from the river, could be procured, and an attentive medical man be employed as surgeon, it appears to me that such a situation would be much more comfortable for the sick, and they could be attended with much better prospects of relief than in either of the situations above mentioned. [ 7 ] 8 Warwickisanotherplace where vessels sometimes lie at anchor, and near which you will perceive Dr. Pleasants thinks a good site may be gotten. I have endeavored in the foregoing, as far as practicable, to give you all the information in my power on the subject, and have given my opin- ion also, which perhaps was not called for, but I hope it will not be con- sidered improper or obtrusive. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, THOMAS NELSON, Collector. Secretary of the Treasury, Washington. Shillelah, October 26, 1836. Dear Sir : I owe you an apology for not complying with your request earlier, in giving my views in relation to the subject of a proper location for a marine hospital in the Richmond district. In relation to the location, I would remark that three important con- siderations ought to be taken into view: first, its healthiness; secondly, its seclusion from tippling-houses and haunts of dissipation ; and thirdly, its contiguity to the ports of entry. My acquaintance with the situations near the river, and my professional experience for the last twenty years, warrant the opinion that a location contiguous to the river would be in- judicious, for the reason that the subjects of an hospital would be contin- ually exposed to the exhalation from the tide-water, which, according to my professional experience for the last ten years, has been much the most common cause of the diseases that have come under my treatment among seamen. In relation to the second consideration, I would remark that I have found it extremely difficult to prevent those seamen that I have had under my treatment from procuring ardent spirits, even at a distance of six miles, when convalescent. They have procured it on several occa- sions by stealth, notwithstanding my positive injunction to the contrary. In fact I have, on two or three occasions, been compelled to discharge them before cured, in consequence of a violation of my rule. In regard to the third consideration, I beg leave to observe that, while I view the contiguity of an hospital to the principal port in the district as of great importance as regards the comfort attending the transportation of sick and disabled seamen to the hospital, yet I think its importance is com- pletely outweighed by the two first considerations. I would, therefore, suggest that a situation a mile or two remote from the river, retired and healthy, secluded from tippling-houses, and five or six miles from Rich- mond, near a good spring, would be the most eligible situation. Such a site can be obtained a mile or two from the port of Warwick. Your friend and obedient servant, SAMUEL PLEASANTS. Captain Thomas Nelson, Collector of the Customs, Richmond. 9 [7] B 5. Collector's Office, Petersburg, November 1, 1836. Sir : I had the honor of receiving a communication from you requir- ing any information within my knowledge, or accessible from other sources, touching the location of public hospitals for sick and disabled seamen in the State of Virginia. I am of opinion that it is absolutely necessary that there should be one located at City Point for the accom- modation of the rivers James and Appomattox, also, one at Fredericks- burg and one at Norfolk. Though we do not receive as much hospital money here as is expended, yet our Eastern brethren, who pay at home, are benefited, and should be, as they are from home and without friends when sickness overtakes them. 1 refer you to the enclosed letter from the physician at the hos- pital at the Point, and remain, Yours, with all respect, C. D. McINDOE, Collector. To the Hon. Levi Woodbury, Washington. Note.—Our representative, Mr. Brown, is very ill in the upper country, not expected to live ; he is acquainted with you, and I believe you and he are friends. Yours, C. D. McINDOE. U. S. Marine Hospital, City Point, October 27, 1836. Sir : In compliance with the directions of the Treasury Department, shown me by you some days back, relative to the establishment of a marine hospital for the accommodation of seamen within the waters of your district, I have the honor to state, as far as my experience will en- able me, the following as the result of mature and disinterested delib- eration. It is a fact undeniable, that so much importance was attached to the location of a marine hospital at this place, and such was the inconve- nience experienced by the multitude of vessels that frequent the waters of James river, in not having a fit place to put their men and have them properly attended to, that a memorial was gotten up and transmitted to the Department, setting forth the situation ships were then in, and re- questing that the Government would take some steps towards amelio- rating the sufferings of sailors composing the crews of ships frequenting this river; their petition was complied with, and a medical man was ap- pointed, and a house selected for their accommodation and relief at this place, as affording more conveniences than any other for the purpose in- tended. An hospital was here established, and a physician appointed to it. I know not, sir, what might have been his opinions as to the advan- tages that City Point possesses over any other point on the river for the object desired, but this I do know, and I speak from seven months' ex- rn 10 perience, that if it is the intention of the Government to erect an hos- pital for the accommodation of sick and disabled seamen within the waters of James river, that City Point is the place for it, for the following reasons: first, its location; vessels lying here (or in the neighboring de- pots) lor cargo have no difficulty in getting (if their captains feel so dis- posed) their sick in comfortable quarters, for the steamboats ply daily, nearly, between this place, Norfolk, Richmond, and Petersburg. Here, and at the neighboring point, Bermuda Hundred, in sight, and distant about two or three miles, have, during the sickly season, been more ships than have been congtegated at any points between Richmond and Cape Henry. From these ships men have been sent me to this establishment until we have been so full as to force on me the necessity of renting ex- tra rooms for their accommodation. Look, sir, at my return for the months of July, August, and September, and you will see that it was impossible for me to furnish room, unless I stowed them in bulk, for the patients I have had. Examine the number of sick that I have had during the period above alluded to, compare it with the number of any other hospital within the waters of Virginia, and you, I am confident, will at once see how much more necessary is a receptacle required here for sea- men than any other point that can be named. Independent of the Square-rigged vessels daily crowding our wharves, there are many smaller vessels, the crews of which are entitled to the comforts of an hos- pital; and these are the men who in the winter require the attendance of a medical man; it is then that they come here from every bay and inlet from Hampton Roads to Richmond, frostbitten, clothesless, and destitute; these men though, sir, pay their monthly hospital fee, and certainly are entitled to the attendance and privileges of an hospital when sick. 1 have known them to come to me in a state of near starvation. Again : sailors frequently come to me who have been discharged from some vessel in the river because they were not able to attend to duty, and, poor creatures, have thrown themselves on the charity of that fund (I mean the hospital fund,) which they have been for years aiding to in- crease. I might run these instances to an interminable extent. I only give you one or two to show you the situation sailors are frequently placed in, although there is an hospital here. Let me then ask you what would be their sufferings if there was none? In conclusion, I have only to ex- press it as my opinion that if the Government intends building an hospital for seamen within your district, that City Point is the place for it; and this opinion is founded on experience. Here is a great commercial mart, vessels of all classes are daily arriving here and departing ; steam- boats from Richmond, Petersburg, and Norfolk, resort here daily. The whole river trade, from Maine to New Orleans, stop here ; and here is the place for the location of an hospital, if one is to be erected in your district. Very respectfully, sir, Your obedient servant, R. KENNON, M. D. Physician of U. S. Marine Hospital, City Point. To C. D. McIndoe, Esq., Collector, Petersburg. 11 [ 7 ] B 6. Collector's Office, District of Ocracoke, August 12, 1836. Sir : I have the honor, in answer to your circular of the 23d June last, in regard to the establishment of marine hospitals, to state, there are few places on the Southern Atlantic coast where one is more required than in this district; it has been for many years back a matter of corre- spondence between the Department and my predecessors in office, as well as with the member of Congress from this district. The House of Representatives passed a bill the session before the last making an ap- propriation for this object; it was not taken up in the Senate for want of time, or some other cause, as I understood. I was requested last sum- mer by merchants, owners of vessels and masters, as well as the collect- tors c. all the interior ports, to urge again the importance of this matter, and forwarded to the member from this district, General Speight, a me- morir! signed by the collectors of Elizabeth city, Edenton, Plymouth, Washington, and Newbern, which was, together with other papers on this subject, hud before the Committee on Commerce. General Speight wrote me in answer that the committee had reported a bill to the House recommending the appropriation, and was of opinion it would pass. The member also from the Washington district, whose constituents are equally interc sted, was also of opinion no objection would be made to it, as every person at all acquainted with the situation of the place, the nature of the navigation, &c, must see the importance of it. This inlet is about one hundred and eighty miles from the furthest and twenty from the nearest interior port. There are frequently from twenty to fifty sail of vessels lying here at a time, often detained by head-winds, the difficulty of the navigation, &c, for weeks; and owing to all the interior ports being more or less sickly during the summer and fall months, very many cases of sickness occur after the vessels leave their ports, and before they get to sea, and this is the only place where they can be provided for, as there are no intermediate ports. This place being one of the healthiest on the coast, only three miles from the ocean, the ciizens residing in this neighborhood are very healthy, seldom re- quiring medical aid ; there is therefore no inducement for a skilful phy- sician and surgeon to settle here, and the present emoluments allowed by th" United States are not sufficient to induce one of even common capac ty to attend sick and disabled seamen. Weh a view to give all the information in my power relating to the commerce passing through Ocracoke inlet, I have ascertained there is about two hundred vessels, on an average, pass out and in per month ; it must therefore be inferred that, at a place like this, where all vessels of eighty tons and upwards have to lighten, when deeply laden, a part of their cargoes, and during the months of August, September, and Octo- ber, the winds generally prevail from the northwest, often detains vessels here "en or twenty and sometimes thirty days, there must be a great number of seamen assembled; and although it would increase the ex- penses at this place, it would lessen them in the interior ports, as all sick seamen would prefer being landed here when arriving from abroad, or r*] 12 being sent here from the interior, where the air is pure and the situation as healthy as any in the United States. From every consideration of economy as well as humanity, my impression is, the public service does require a marine hospital, with a skilful physician and surgeon, in this district. There are several very eligible sites, one (Beacon island,) belonging to the United States, on which there was a temporary fort during the last war. Shell Castle, on which there are several old buildings, might be purchased on very favorable terms; or a few acres of ground on the island of Portsmouth, entirely separated from the inhabitants, and con- venient to the shipping; the latter 1 would recommend as most desirable. I have the honor to be, With much respect, S. BROWN, Collector. The Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury. B 7. Custom House, Newbern, September 19, 1836. Sir : In answer to your circular of June 23, 1836, I have to state, that I have submitted it to the owners and masters of vessels in this place, for the purpose of obtaining their views on the subject referred to. They all concur in opinion with me, that an hospital established at any one point within the waters of Ocracoke bar, would be of little value to sick sailors, except such as might be taken sick near such establishment. The ports of Newbern and Washington are 80 miles distant from Ocracoke, Camden 120 miles distant, Edenton 160 miles, and Plymouth 180 miles distant, and each of them on different water-courses, at con- siderable distance from each other; thus situated, it would be extremely difficult to remove sick sailors from any one of those places, if they should be taken sick at a distance from the place where the hospital might be located, and might possibly cause the death of the person re- moved. It certainly is very desirable to have a small hospital at each of the places named above. The most suitable spot in this neighborhood for an hospital is Fort Point, three miles below Newbern, on Neuse river, where all vessels are obliged to ride quarantine when there is occasion for enforcing the quar- antine laws ; the municipal authorities of Newbern will not allow sailors sick with contagious diseases to be brought up to town; the consequence is, they are obliged to remain onboard their vessels and suffer, sometimes die, for the want of a comfortable situation and suitable attendance. I have no doubt that any portion of the land at Fort Point could be pur- chased very low. I am, very respectfully, sir, THOS. S. SINGLETON, Collector. Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. 13 [7 J B 8. Collector's Office, Port of Elizabeth City, District of Camden, North Carolina. Sir : In reply to your circular of the 23d June, 1836, I beg leave to submit the following : That a marine hospital for the relief of sick and disabled seamen has been much needed at this port, and two memorials relative thereto have been signed by the merchants of this place interested in shipping, and by others following the seas, and forwarded to our Representative in Con- gress, but owing to some unknown cause were permitted to pass unnoticed. The port of Elizabeth city lies on the Pasquotank river, which river leads into the Dismal Swamp canal; and all vessels engaged in inland naviga- tion, from Baltimore to the surrounding country, in this section and up the Roanoke river as far as Halifax, both in going and returning, generally stop at this place, either for repairs, supplies of provisions, seamen, or other necessaries. Besides the number of vessels engaged in this trade belonging to other ports, are to be added our own vessels engaged in the West India and coasting trades, and a large number of small craft owned in this district, engaged in the transportation of shingles, staves, and other species of lumber, from different parts of the district, necessarily employs a number of hands, who, when taken unwell, generally seek this port for re- lief. There is no port in this section of the State where a greater number of seamen are generally to be found, (exclusive of those belonging to the port;) which in a great measure is caused by its approximation to Norfolk, from whence, when the crews of United States vessels are discharged, and their finances spent, numbers seek employ here ; and from a long course of dissipation require hospital aid. In the fall, winter, and the greater part of spring, numbers of vessels from Eastern and other ports arrive here, seeking freights, or for the purpose of purchasing cargoes of corn; and these vessels add to the number of seamen generally found here..- The crews of vessels cast away on the North Carolina shore, from Ocracoke bar to Currituck inlet, who receive injury or become diseased, generally seek this port. The facilities rendered to vessels requiring repairs are more abundant here than at any other port in this section of our Stat?. Two railways are in operation ; sea-stores, &c, always on hand in sufi- cient quantities to meet any demand that has hitherto taken place; and /he protection afforded by the harbor in stormy weather, are among som« of its advantages. As regards the salubrity of position, Elizabeth city can- not be said to be more unhealthy than other ports in this part of the State ; and we arc well supplied with medical gentlemen well versed in their pro- fession. From what I have stated above, I am of the opinion that, it would be expedient, to have a marine hospital established at or near this place. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, STEPHEN CHARLES, CMeclor. Hon. Levi Woodbury. [7] 14 B 9. Collector's Office, Washington, North Carolina, August 7, 1836. Sir : I bad the honor to receive yours of the 23d June, with the resolu- tion of the Senate of the United States respecting marine hospitals. 1 have long been impressed with the opinion that a general hospital should be erected somewhere within the State of North Carolina, north of the district of Wilmington. Under the present system, every collector in the State acts, and from necessity must so continue, as the agent of the marine hospital, and, in many cases, the compensation being small, the best physicians in (he town cannot he had, neither can the proper boarding- houses always be procured ; and though the best of each arc used by the officers in their power, still, if then' was but one in the State, they might be better attended to than they now are or can be. I regret much it is not in my power to render an estimate of the cost of such an establishment, nor of the expense of the present; but beg leave to suggest that, by refer- ence to the accounts of the collectors, they will show the present to be much the most expensive. The towns of Newbern, Washington, Plymouth, Edenton, and Eliza- beth, are perhaps among the most unhealthy places in North Carolina ; and during the summer and fall of the year, there are many vessels in those places unemployed, and consequently many seamen, who, usually, not the most prudent, thrown out of employ, remain in those towns at such times, and become the victims of disease in some shape. They generally are, unfortunately, from the Northern States of the Union. I say unfortu- nately, because they cannot withstand the heats of our Southern clime, and are far distant from their friends and connexions. I would respectfully suggest that the best location for such, in North Carolina, would be with- in the district of Ocracoke, arid to be placed either on Shell Castle, now owned by individuals, who probably would sell it, or at Beacon island, now the property of the United States. The former to be preferred, because it has a building now on it sufficient to accommodate a number of seamen, and may hereafter be used for the physician or nurses, and more easy of lecess : but both remote from the inhabitants of Ocracoke ami Portsmouth s-» far as not to endanger the health of the citizens of either by contagious diseases, and yet sufficiently near as to admit of necessary assistance when required. I will add, that though I have no interest in Shell Castle, it belongs, in part, to a relation, but believe my opinion is not founded on that interest. By locating the, hospital at Ocracoke. they will have a fine pure atmosphere, removed from the dissipation of our small towns, can easily be removed to their distant friends, better attended to, and, I think, much less expensive to the Government. I have thus, sir, assigned the reasons for my opinion more at length than you may have expected or wished ; but, believing that it will contrib- ute much to the comfort of the unfortunate, if carried into effect, 1 trust will be a sufficient apology. I have the honor to be, sir, Your mo9t obedient, THOMAS H. BLOUNT, Collector. Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury. 15 [ 7 ] B 10. Custom-house, Mobile, September 19, 1836. Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your circular of the 23d June, current, enclosing a resolution of the Senate of the 15th of the same month, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to lay before the Senate, at the commencement of the next session of Congress, such inform- ation as he may be able to obtain, together with his own opinions respect- ing the points or places in which it may be most expedient or necessary to establish marine hospitals for the relief of sick .and disabled seamen, to- gether with your instruction on that subject, directing me to afford you '•such information as may be within my own knowledge, or which may be accessible to me from other sources, in reference to the expediency of such establishments on the water-courses within ibis State, or district, which it may be in my power to communicate ; and particularly in refer- ence to the points or places where, by reason of the congregation of seamen in great numbers, salubrity of position, or other local advantages, it may be most expedient and necessary to establish such institutions." Since the receipt of this communication, I have given this subject all the consideration within my power. The vicinity of Mobile is perhaps among the most suitable positions for such an establishment in the United States, not only on account of the great number of seamen that annually congre- gate here during the sickly season, but from the salubrity of position that can be easily obtained for such an establishment within a mile or two of the city, but as a matter of great economy to the Uaited States, and, also, the advantages which would result from having an establishment of that character under your own control ; and by the establishment of one near the city, there would never be any difficulty in obtaining medical attend- ance on the cheapest terms, by the resident physicians of the city. But justice and humanity to a brave and hardy set of men, who are always re- lied on in time of war, demand a better provision than is now made for their comfortable accommodation, while sick or disabled, in this port. Litre, we arc dependent on the city for the attentions necessary to be paid to such as we send to their hospital ; which is nearly, if not quite, sup- ported by the funds received from this office, notwithstanding we have no control over the treatment, food, bedding, medicine, or any other part of the subject; the whole matter is under the control of the mayor and eight aldermen ; they elect annually their physicians, stewards, &c., and their appointments more often become a matter of political consideration than fitness for the duties of their station. Yet we have no other resource, and must send there. The arrangement made with the city commenced timing the time that Mr. Lewis was collector, and has been continued by my predecessor at the same terms, viz. 75 cents per day, equivalent to S22 50 for every seaman that remains there 30 days. I have followed in the course, I am told, that was pursued by my predecessor, although I can find no other authority than is contained in the duplicate abstract of pay- ments made on that account. No contract or agreement is on file in this office. Since my appointment, we have daily applications for admission to the hospital ; and there appears to be no rule by which they are to be ad- mitted, except that of their possessing American protections, and those are frequently loaned to the sick man, who assumes the name in the protection. The city authorities refuse every man who has the slightest pretensions to [ 7 ] 16 the character of a seaman ; and it is not unfrequent that we find our anti- chamber crowded in the morning with two or three of those poor sick crea- tures, just turned out of their boarding-house, claiming admission to the hospital as sick seamen. Their application to the city authorities being refused, their only resort is that of being admitted as seamen. I have en- deavored to create something like a system of accountability, by requiring weekly reports from the hospital of the names of sick seamen, when admit- ted, when discharged, when dead, and other remarks. I obtained one re- port ; and, although I have called for it since, it cannot be furnished. Such a report would be a check on their quarterly accounts. We always register the names and date of admission, but we cannot tell when they are dis- charged or died ; nor can we tell the cause of complaint, or why they are kept there, so long. One man, I find, has been there since last March, yet they will not discharge him. Thus, we are made to pay just what they choose. I have called for a statement of the amount paid annually to the city for the support of sick and disabled seamen, from 1829 to the present year. This report includes three quarters of 1829, and one quarter of 1836. From this statement, which is enclosed for your information, it will be seen that this office has received, during that time, g5,157 88 of hospital money, and expended, fort he support of sick and disabled seamen, the sum of 11,387 22—a sum nearly sufficient to build a marine hospital. The city hospital is quite a large building, twice the size that would be re- quired to answer our purposes ; and it derives three-fourths of its support from this office. I have no doubt that a suitable lot could be obtained with- in one or two miles of the city, and a suitable building erected, furnished, &c, for a sum less than $20,000; and that the annual expenditure re- quired to keep it up, and afford the requisite accommodation for the sick and disabled seamen of this port, would not exceed half what we now annually pay to the city of Mobile. Pensacola being the naval station for the Gulf of Mexico, will, of course, bring a great many seamen in their fleets, whose term of service frequently expires while there : they almost invariably repair to this port, work along-shore for awhile, and enter on board our river and lake steamboats that run between this city and New Orleans. It is the same case with the seamen that reach New Orleans. If tired of their ships, either leave thern with permission, or frequently run away and come here : and here we find every year, during the sickly season, more seamen than at either of the other ports. A few days ago the revenue-cutter Wash- ington came here for payment and to ship a new crew. Although every sailors' boarding-house was crowded with seamen, none would ship, and Captain Day was compiled to send Lieutenant Clark to New Orleans. I wrote the collector to aid him in obtaining a crew. He returned in a few days without getting a man, and the collector wrote me there were no sea- men to be had in that port. But here there were numbers, but they pre- ferred staying on shore or working in steamboats. Captain Day was at length enabled to get seven or eight men, by getting the police constables among those who had no money, and rather than go to jail shipped. In my opinion there is no place in the United States that stands so much in need of a marine hospital as the port of Mobile, if you take into con- sideration the immense increase that annually is made to the commerce of this port, and which must continue for many years yet, as not one-tenth of the valuable lands of this State is brought into cultivation, and the im- mense extent of navigable rivers that flow to this place. No other State in 17 r* j the Union possesses such rivers as Alabama; ail bounded by the finest lands in the world, and whose inhabitants are increasing beyond all anticipation. To supply the wants of such a population our steamboats must annually increase, as they have heretofore done, at least fifty per cent, ann'ually. The hands on board those steamboats all pay hospital money, and are all entitled to the protection of that fund. Those boats continue to run until the sickly season, when they generally lie up at this place, or in some of the creeks or bayous near the city, and if any of their hands fall sick they im- mediately apply for admission to the hospital; so that we may reasonably calculate that as the commerce of this place increases so will the necessity for a marine hospital increase, as well as the expenditures on that account; and will it not be sound policy to erect a marine hospital at once within the vicinity of this city, foreseeing the increased demand that will annually arise for such an establishment ? I have the honor to remain Your obedient servant, JOHN B. HOGAN. To the Hon. Levi Woodbury. [ 7 ] 18 AMOUNT of hospital money received and expended in the support of sick and disabled seamen in the port of Mobile during the periods therein named. Amount received Amount received Amount expended Total amount Year. each quarter. in each year. each quarter. expended in the year. 2d quarter, 1829 $223 97 3d u cc 30 46 $519 90 4th cc cc 116 14 $370 57 $519 90 1st cc 1830 203 18 352 24 !*il cc cc 261 41 3d cc cc 79 35 170 44 4th cc cc 98 58 642 52 143 92 666 60 1st cc 1831 241 35 114 38 2d cc cc 327 44 234 07 3d cc cc 73 02 93 17 4th cc cc 116 58 758 39 610 29 1,051 91 1st cc 1832 182 34 2d cc cc 226 21 683 27 3d cc cc 57 16 4th cc cc 104 68 570 39 763 05 1,446 32 1st cc 1833 238 61 451 47 2d cc cc 279 08 699 42 3d cc cc 76 96 350 21 4th (C cc 123 53 718 18 340 62 1,841 72 1st cc 1834 347 57 407 03 2d cc cc 186 91 855 47 3d cc cc 78 19 559 54 4th cc cc 119 93 732 60 360 57 2,182 61 1st cc 1835 491 74 496 16 2d cc ct 311 74 856 22 3d cc cc 30 21 922 13 4th cc cc 256 54 1,090 23 275 00 553 48 2,827 99 850 17 1st cc 1836 275 00 850 17 $5,157 88 $11,387 22 19 [7 J B n. Collector's Office, Key West, October 17, 1836. Sift : The circular from the Department, dated June 2S, relating to the expediency of establishing a marine hospital within the limits of the dis- trict of Key West, having received my attention, I feci no hesitation, on presenting my reply, in designating this port as one which has strong claims on Congress for an institution of the kind. It is taken for granted that a marine hospital should not only be located so as to accommodate the greatest number of sick, but should also be cal- culated to extend relief where otherwise there would be the greatest suffer- ing, and in this particular it is believed Key West presents stronger claims than any other port in the United States now in want of such an institution. Its situation, as you arc well aware, is at the most southern point in the Union, on the margin of the Gulf Stream, within a few miles of the direct course pursued by vessels engaged in the vast and increasing commerce of the Gulf of Mexico ; the whole of which, with a considerable portion of the return-commerce of the West Indies, is here brought into a narrow channel of about sixty miles in breadth, having the coast of Cuba on the south and the islands of the Florida reef on the north. The harbor itself is to a large number of vessels an actual thoroughfare, every year adding to the number that avail themselves of the advantages it possesses, through its numerous outlets into the Gulf of Mexico, to shorten their voyages to and from the ports of West Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana, and the sta- tioning of a light-vessel atone of these passes, (for which an appropriation passed the Bouse of Representatives at its last session,) will increase the number that thus come in actual contact with the place to a very great degree. Easy of access, perfectly secure, and offering every inducement, par- ticularly during the summer months, when vessels from the ports on the Gulf are almost invariably affected by disease, the harbor of Key West is the place to which all passing vessels resort that have sickness on board, and accordingly the majority of the seamen admitted to the benefits of the hospital fund at this office, especially during the sickly months, consist of seamen from abroad and not of those employed within the district.* Numbers however, who arrive here in ill health, prefer continuing on their voyage than to trust to the uncertain assistance which is now to be obtained. There being no municipal regulations whatever for the relief of the sick, the mariner, thrown ashore without money or friends, becomes dependent in his distressed situation, in a great measure, upon the benevolence of the inhabitants, the allowance of S3 per week for board and nursing, under the present regulations of the Department, for the distribution of the hospital fund, being entirely inadequate to the support and services rendered at a place like this, where the expenses incurred for the necessaries of life are enormously high. Where a dollar is oftentimes the price of a fowl, the nurse must be poorly paid indeed, who, for S3 per week, maintains, and * The average number of vessels for the last four years, entering at this office, (excluding of coarse, all those only touching at the port temporarily,) has been about 300 per annum, having on board at least 1,600 seamen—but I have no data whereby to judge how much this number would be increased by including transient vessels. m 20 gives her attentions night and day to the sick and destitute mariner. But few comforts can consequently be procured for those who are in want, either in the way of attendance, suitable apartments, or diet. As there is mi port within four hundred miles of Key West where assist- ance in case of sickness can be obtained, (unless it be some port of the Bahamas or of Cuba,) you will at once perceive how highly important it is to our commerce in these seas to have every facility afforded the mariner here to enable him to pursue his avocations without unnecessary delay. And the great health which has obtained at Key West for several years past, and the rapid convalescence of the sick who have bad good attendance, prove that the happiest results may be expected from the establishment of an hospital. Should the commerce of the Gulf increase during the next twentv years in the same ratio that it has for the same number of years past—and no one can affix limits to its increase—there will not perhaps be a point along our whole coast where, even in respect to the number of the sick, the cause of humanity can be more extensively promoted. The island possesses many facilities for building with stone, and probably, an hospital sufficiently large to accommodate from 30 to 50 sick, and the family of the matron, might be erected for ten or twelve thousand dollars, exclusive of the land, the valucof which would depend on the quantity re- quired, and its location. It might, however, be connected in some way with the military post here, and be erected on the ground occupied by the barracks. I would respectfully refer you to several letters from this office, on the subject under consideration, transmitted under date of 23d December, 1833, with a presentment of the grand inquest of the county, in relation to the same subject, forwarded therewith. I have the honor to be, sir, &c. W. A. WHITEHEAD, Collector. Hon. Levi Woodbury. B 12. Wheeling, October 25, 1836. Sir: In answer to your circular, addressed to me for the purpose of eliciting any information within my knowledge, or which may lie accessible to me from other sources, in reference to the expediency of establishing public hospitals for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, and particularly in reference to the points or places where, by reason of the congregation of seamen in great numbers, salubrity of position, or other local advantage, it may he most expedient and necessary to establish such institutions, I beg leave to submit the following facts in relation to Wheeling, as a point in every respect suitable and desirable for such an institution. In order to form an accurate estimate of the number of seamen or boatmen annually congregated within this port, as also the number at different seasons of the year, it will be necessary to ascertain the number of steamboat arri- vals and departures from above and below, during a succession of years, and the aggregate number of boatmen on each boat, as taken from an old file of papers for the years 1828, '29, '30, and '35. They are as follows : (The intermediate years are not given, as access could not be had to au- thentic records on the subject.) 21 [ ? ] 1828— 661 arrivals—381 from below—280 from above. 1829— 665 a 378 1830— 713 " 415 1835—1,089 a 592 Total, 3,128 1,776 1,362 Average, 782 442 540 At a very moderate average, the number of seamen on each boat will be found to be between twenty and twenty-five. Taking the lowest number, the aggregate from steamboats alone, within our port,during the year,wilI amount to fifteen thousand six hundred and forty. This average is annually increas- ing, and, from the best information to be obtained on the subject, will, at the present time, amount to upwards of twenty thousand. There are seasons of the year however, when, owing to the low stage of water in the river, and its obstruction by ice, steamboat navigation is suspended. During the low stage of water, the navigation of the river is kept up by great numbers of keel and flat-bottomed boats, the number of hands on which will at least equal the number employed on steamboats during other seasons. In order to form some estimate of the number thus employed, it will be neces- sary to glance at the time dining which steamboat navigation is suspended, or was suspended in the several years mentioned. It may also be proper to note the difference in the number of arrivals from above and below. during such periods as the navigation was but partially suspended, in order to show the number of seamen annually within our port, above those in ports high up the river. During the year 1828, there was an uninterrupt- ed navigation, with the exception of eight weeks, from the 17th of Sep- tember to the 5th of November, during which time the number of arrivals from below exceeded by 101 the number from above, being a difference of 15 per cent. Taking the averageabove stated, the number of boatmen ar- riving here would exceed by two thousand and twenty, those arriving in ports above. During the year 1829, there was a total suspension of navi- gation, on account of the ice, for four weeks ; during which time there lay at our wharf fourteen steamboats. During other fifteen weeks, from the 1st of July to the 7th of October, the navigation was materially interrupt- ed by the low stage of water, during which time there were but seventy arrivals, fifty-five of which were from below, and fifteen from above ; ma- jority from below forty ; majority of arrivals from below during the year, over those from above ninety-one, or about 14 per cent. In the year 1830 there were seventeen weeks during which steamboat navigation was almost entirely suspended; during all this period there were but three arrivals. For four weeks the river was closed by ice, and during other thirteen the river was so low as not to admit of the passage of boats. The low water was from the 25th of August to the 24th of November, during which time the exact number of boats lying at our wharf could not be ascertained. There was no material interruption to the navigation from low water, or other causes, during the entire year of 1835, as is indicated by the number of arrivals. The difference between the arrivals from above and below is only ninety-five in favor of those from below, being about 9 per cent, or a little more than one-half the difference in former years. Such seasons do not occur more than once in from seven to ten years, and are not to be calculated upon. [7] 22 From the above data it will be seen that, owing to the obstructions in the river immediately above this place, and to the fact that a very large amount of goods are shipped from this port, from the Eastern cities, by the way of the national road, seamen are more likely to be, and actually are congregated here in larger numbers, than in any other port above Cmcin- nati. During the low stage of water there arc but few shipments from above this port, and it is during this period that steam boatmen (out ot ac- tual employ.) and the hands on keel and flat boats arc collected in the greatest numbers. This is also the season at which Western epidemics almost invariably prevail, a fact that should have due weight in determin- ing the point lor an hospital, as that point should certainly be selected where, during the sickly season of the year, the individuals for whose benefit it is established are collected in the greatest numbers. Wo have long lelt the want of such an institution in this place, it happens during every season, but was more particularly the case during the prevalence of the cholera on the Western waters, that seamen and others arc put ashore here from the boats, sick and without friends or acquaintances. The fear of contagion prevents their admission into comfortable houses; and even were there no such fear, the hand of charity will tire, when its ministrations are too frequently solicited. The revolting spectacle of individuals, in the last stages of disease, lying in our public warehouses, naked rooms, and deserted tenements, without one kind hand to administer relief, or even a pillow on which to rest the head, has been too often presented to render the prospect of obtaining an institution for their relief a matter of indifference to our citizens. If compatible with the views of the Department, an institution may be so managed as to defray at least part of its own expenses : rooms may be set apart and furnished for the accommodation of such others of the sick as may prefer the certain attentions to be obtained at an hospital to the uncertain and partial attentions received at taverns and boarding-houses. There is perhaps no city in the West through which more strangers pass annually than through" Wheeling, and no doubt many of those who are sick would take, advantage of the accommodations offered by the genteel wards of a public hospital. But, this by the way, our harbor is safe and commodious, and affords abetter protection to boats, at the breaking up of the ice in the spring, than any other on the river; thence many boats will lie up here for the winter, and hence also the increased number of seamen remaining here whilst the river is closed by ice. The salubrity of our situ- ation has never been questioned, our bills of mortality will show as few deaths, within the last ten years, as have occurred in any city of the same population in the United States. A site for an hospital can be procured in a retired airy situation, at a very moderate expense, and suitable bindings can be erected on as moderate, or perhaps more moderate terms, than in other places. These facts present a few of the most prominent advantages possessed by Wheeling, as a place suitable for the establishment of sue!) an institution as is contemplated ; many others of minor importance might be mentioned, but it is deemed unnecessary to press them on your attention. I will merely remark in conclusion, that when the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road shall "nave been completed, this will be the point through which all the United States troops will pass in going from East to West, or from West to East. Whether, with such a prospect in view, it would not he advisable to construct a naval and military hospital is left for your consideration. With sentiments of respect and consideration, &c, Hon. Levi Woodbury. THOMAS P. NORTON. 23 [ 7 ) B 13. Louisville, November 23, 1836. In obedience to the requisition of the Treasury Department, I proceed to transmit such information as has been within my reach, a touching the location of public hospitals for the relief of sick and disabled seamen." Your inquiry embraces two points: 1st, the expediency of such estab- lishments on the water-courses, or lakes, within the State of Kentucky, and, secondly, in reference to the points or places where it may be most expedient and necessary to establish institutions. The erection of public hospitals for sick and disabled seamen in the West will be a source of much gratulation among the enterprising and meritorious navigators of the Western waters. They form an essen- tial and highly-important feature in our commerce, as the carriers of the vast trade of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, with their tribu- tary streams. Consequently, they are now a numerous class of ourpop- ulation, and their numbers are increasing with great rapidity ; and a more hardy, industrious, enterprising, and upright race of men, cannot be found in our country. Their occupation leads them into scenes of danger, difficulty, and trial of various description. Unhealthy seasons, vi- cissitudes of climate—one day in the frozen regions of the West, and soon after toiling under the exposure of a Southern sun—the wear and tear of the constitution under the influence of constant exertion and continued vigilance, and compulsory repose upon unhealthy shores at night, all combine together to produce much sickness, and many disabil- ities among our Western navigators. And the absence of all means of accommodation at many points, by which the sick might have been prop- erly attended to, has added to the distress and difficulties of the boatmen. These wants, the absence of these necessary means of attention, com- forts, &c, added to the fact that the Government exacted of each boat- man a certain tax called hospital dues, by which they were made to pay for a benefit which they were not permitted to enjoy in any way, have caused much solicitude among our watermen, and many anxious inquiries are daily made to learn what the Government intends doing in their be- half. 1, therefore, hail with much gratification your letter of inquiry, showing, as it does, that the attention of the Government is directed to the subject, and we may indulge the confident expectation that, by an enlightened and liberal course of policy, all necessary attentions to the sick and disabled boatmen will be secured by the Government. I beg leave then to repeat, that the fact of the exaction and collection of hospital dues or contributions from the particular class of eitizens known as boatmen, taken in connexion with what we know of the suf- ferings, wants, privations, and neglect of those who are assailed by dis- ease, or disabled by the frequent accidents which occur upon our waters; and these compared with the utter want of everything like public insti- tutions for the benefit of such persons, are strong and forcible arguments in favor of the establishment of " public hospitals for the relief of sick and disabled seamen." If a landsman is taken sick he must provide ac- commodations for himself, and pay for all received attentions, and is then frequently in straitened circumstances for places of resort suitable to hi s wants, but the boatmen not only have all this to do, but, in excess [ 7 } 24 of the landsman's situation, pay a tax to Government for accommoda- tions which they are not permiited to enjoy. The highly important na- ture of their employment, their hardships and dangers, their liabilities to accident, and disease, and destitution, in numberless cases, of the means of alleviating their afflictions on account of the want of proper institutions; all these, coupled with the levy made upon their earnings by the laws of the land, strongly urge upon the Government the expedi- ency and necessity of governmental institutions for the reception of " sick and disabled boatmen." They complain loudly now, not because they are taxed, for they allow that to be just and proper, but they mur- mur for the reason that they are made to contribute their funds to an ob- ject which is not in existence. It is a trouble sometimes to get them to pay my department these dues on this very account, yet I am persuaded they would cheerfully comply with the requisition made upon them, though it were double what it is at present, provided they received a quid pro quo. Under present circumstances many valuable lives are sacrificed yearly on account of the ineligibility of situations for those who are attacked away from home. The best point for leaving them is selected by the captain of the boat, and though the best within his reach, or prospectively, yet it is often deficient in almost everything that can give comfort to the sick and wounded. But in an hospital, all necessary arrangements could be concentrated by which every attention could be rendered that their situation might require, and I am confident that the West would receive with gratitude this manifestation of the provident care of the Government over an important branch of American com- merce. The expediency being thus established clearly, by reference to the extensive wants and necessities of an extensive circuit of our country, the next point of consideration is in reference to the locale of these hos- pitals. There can be no difficulty in arriving at satisfactory conclusions upon this branch of the subject. If these institutions are to be estab- lished .for the benefit of the boatmen, the most eligible situations for their location must be those that combine salubrity, ease of access, and a com- mand of the best means for giving the sick the highest amount of com- forts and necessary attentions. And upon a close investigation of the question in reference to these points, I am satisfied that the two situa- tions selected by the State of Kentucky for the erection of State insti- tutions, are the best that could be found upon the Western waters for na- tional hospitals. These points are Smithland and Louisville ; the one situated at the junction of the Cumberland^and Ohio rivers, the other at the falls of the Ohio. The hospital at Smithland is a State institution, which I have no doubt could be purchased cheaply, and by an enlargement in a very reasonable degree, might be made to answer the wants of the boatmen of the Cum- berland, Tennessee, and Ohio rivers in that region, for many years to come. The site is a very fine one, highly elevated, and entirely clear of all sources of miasm. It is the focus of attraction for a considerable congregation of the boatmen of that region, and enjoys the means of supplying the wants of the sick in a very eminent degree. Produce of every variety, for the climate, is abundant; nurses and attendants easily secured, and the medical faculty of a highly respectable character. The 25 [7] situation is very healthy, and thus, in point of salubrity, ease of access on account of the stage of water the year round, the connexions of many of the boatmen with the families of the town and the contiguous coun- try, the means of securing good medical ability, nurses, &c, the produc- tiveness of the country, and its commanding situation in reference to the boatmen of the Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee rivers, all point to it as one of the places that should be selected for the establishment of an hospital for sick and disabled Western navigators. That Louisville is a point more eminently calculated for an establish- ment of the kind under consideration than any other in the West, can scarcely need an argument. It is, and has been for years, one of the healthiest cities in the Union, and is more intimately connected with Western commerce than any other city in the West, end, consequently, larger masses of boatmen are to be found there throughout the year. There were seventeen hundred steamboat arrivals at the port of Louis- ville in the year 1835, and during the present year (1836) two thousand. Consequently, Louisville presents strong and powerful claims for ano- ther establishment. Her population is now about twenty-three thousand, and rapidly increasing every year. Her commerce is equal to about thirty-five millions of dollars per annum, and increasing greatly. From these data may be judged something of the extent of the numbers of car- riers engaged in this active commerce. In addition to the congregation of boatmen at this point engaged in the active duties of navigation, a great number resort to this place through the summer season, whose boats are laid up at Jeffersonville during low stages of water. The city is making strenuous exertions to create a school of medicine upon an en- larged and liberal scale, and based on durable foundations. This will concentrate a large amount of medical talent of the first description at the city of Louisville, and the Government may thus command the first abilities for the medical supervisorship of the national marine hospital. To sum up her claims to an establishment in a few words, we advert to the additional fact that her central position, in reference to the upper and lower trade of the Ohio, presents advantages for such a location, such as no other point on the Ohio possesses. Upon an attentive reconsideration of the whole matter, I think that Louisville and Smithland are the only eligible sites in my district for the establishment of national marine hospitals, and this is strongly confirmed by the fact that if the State establishment at Smithland were as spacious and comfortable as the one at Louisville, (which is no longer a State es- tablishment, having been surrendered to the city for the accommodation of her paupers,) and both were liberally endowed with funds, the whole wants of the navigating community of sick and disabled persons could be supplied at those two points. From this fact the conclusion is irre- sistible that a national establishment at each of those two points could be made adequate to the accomplishment of all the designs of such insti- tutions. I subjoin one fact in order to prove the expediency of such establish- ments, by showing the strong necessity for them. This fact is but one of a vast number, many of which have come under my own observation, and I extract it from a communication addressed to me by Captain Henry M. Shreve. Under date of July 30, 1836, he says: "On my arrival at r? i 26 Louisville, in June last, I had on board of the United States steamboats some twenty sick men, who had been working on the great raft of Red river. On application at the hospital, I was informed that there was no provision for sick seamen or boatmen. I was, therefore, compelled to go to the city alms-house, and pay for their nursing and attendance, and yet these men were paying hospital dues at the rate of 20 cents per month." This fact speaks strongly, and the existence of hundreds of such cases appeals strongly to the Government to extend its fostering care to the West. I do trust that the brilliant administration of the great Western President will not close without adding this accomplishment to his many signal triumphs. With these remarks, I close this communication, by respectfully submit- ting the facts to your consideration; and I have the honor to be, With great respect, Your obedient servant, EDWARD S. CAMP, Surveyor of the port of Louisville, Kentucky. Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury. B 14. Surveyor's Office, Nashville, Tennessee, November 12, 1836. Sir : Your communication of the 23d June last, requesting of me such information as might be in my possession, or in my power to procure on the subject, as to the propriety of establishing marine hospitals at suit- able points within my section or district, came duly to hand, and was carefully filed away with the view of attending to the request at an early day, but in the act of moving my office, it was mislaid, and I was not able to lay my hand on it until within the last three days, and which alone accounts for the delay. In making this report, which must of necessity be an imperfect one, I shall present three points, which I believe are all entitled to considera- tion, viz.: Memphis, Smithland, and Nashville. In regard to the first, I think the Legislature of this State, perhaps in 1833, memorialized Con- gress on the subject of establishing a marine hospital at that place, and among other things, stated that a large number of seamen, seeking to escape from more southern and sickly sections, annually arrived there, and being overtaken with disease either before or after their arrival, were compelled to remain a burden on the citizens. As to what extent this evil prevails at this time, I have no correct means of ascertaining, but no doubt that it does still exist to a degree more or less. Its healthy and commanding situation, on the banks of the great thoroughfare of the West, also adds much to its claims. Smithland, situated at the mouth of the Cumberland river, is also con- sidered by some as possessing advantages on account of situation and other circumstances, which give it strong claims to an institution of that 27 ['] nature. Standing as it does, at the dividing point between the com- merce of Tennessee and Kentucky and other sections on the Ohio, &c. it alternately receives the sick and disabled seamen of either region, and being unable, for want of means, to proceed any further, are compelled to remain there, and become a burden to the inhabitants. In regard to Nashville, I am able to speak of its claims from my own observation and experience, and in doing this I would not wish to lessen the claims of either place before mentioned. In the. first place, almost every vessel running from this place to New Orleans, is owned by our citizens, and belongs to this port, and lie by here, during that season of the year in which our river is too low for navigation. Consequently, the main body of seamen congregate at this point, where they generally remain until the business season again commences. The amount of ton- nage now belonging to this port is 3,376 tons, which employs, on an average, upwards of five hundred hands, the most of whom are generally poor, and reside among us, and who very soon spend their wages, and must necessarily suffer if overtaken with disease. The high, healthy, and elevated situation of Nashville, is so well known, that I deem it un- necessary to say any thing on that subject. I deem it proper, however, in conclusion, to state that, under the present laws, making temporary provisions for sick and disabled seamen in ports of entry or places where there are no marine hospitals, little or no relief can be obtained, for want of suitable accommodations and attendance ; the sums allowed bylaw be- ing too little to procure such accommodations and attendance, by reason of which, many are now deprived of its benefits. All of which is respectfully submitted. J. M. SMITH, Surveyor. Hon. Levi Woodbury. B 15. Pittsburg, December 1, 1836. Sir : We labor under considerable inconvenience for want of an hos- pital for the relief of sick and disabled seamen. The temporary city hos- pital which I had engaged for the use of marine invalids, agreeably to your instructions of the 18th May, 1835, has been sold by the city authorities to a private individual, who has converted it to his own pur- poses. We are therefore destitute of any asylum for the sick or disabled, consequently I have great difficulty in finding places to have them at- tended. No person being willing to take them into their family, I have to send many to the country, in which case it is very difficult to afford the required medical aid. In obedience to your instructions of the 23d June, 1836, I have conversed with a great number of citizens, and cap- tains and owners of steamboats, who appear all very anxious to have an hospital established in this place. The want of one is attended with many inconveniences. There is difficulty in having the sick accommodated. When they are kept at the river boarding-houses, it is impossible to pre- vent them from violating the rules prescribed by the physician, and consequently, by some species of intemperance, to which seamen are generally addicted, prevent the salutary effects of medicine from having [ 7 ] 28 the desired effect, thus remaining a charge on the United States perhaps three times as long as if they were under the immediate control of the physician. Another difficulty seems to offer in collecting hospital dues. In almost every case the masters of vessels refuse to pay, and allege that, for want of an hospital, they have no right to pay. In vain do I tell them I have to find accommodations, and so far I have still found some place to accommodate the distressed. In yours of the 18th May, 1835, you authorized me to confer with some of the professional gentlemen, and let you know upon what terms they would undertake to provide the required aid. In pursuance of which Dr. Jonas McClintock offered to attend and furnish medicine for $150 per annum, which proposal I sub- mitted to you, and he commenced to attend accordingly, but in render- ing my accounts, the item specifying the amount paid the physician has been returned as not admissible, requiring the names of the patients attended by him, the times of attendance on each, the amount charged for each, and a detailed account for the medicine furnished each patient, and the separate charges therefor. When I called on the physician to make out his bill agreeable as above, he said he would have some difficulty, as he expected the Secretary had acceded to his proposal of the yearly salary, and had acted accordingly. Please to instruct me on this subject. Dr. McClintock has since been appointed mayor of this city, and Dr. Simpson is now the physician in his stead, and is desirous to know your decision. The doctor and myself think, if a house could be rented on reasonable terms convenient to the river, where patients could be nursed and attended to under his imme- diate control, it would have a beneficial effect, and add to the comforts as well as the convenience of the sick. Your instructions on the above- mentioned subjects will confer a favor on your humble servant. The probable number of steamboats that will lie up here this winter will average from thirty to forty, their crews averaging twenty hands: we had frequently forty last winter, and I have no doubt but this winter will exceed the last. Amongst that number of hands we may expect a number of invalids, hence the necessity for making some arrangement for their accommodation. I am, respectfully, sir, Your obedient and humble servant, JOHN CLARK, Surveyor port of Pittsburg. Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury. 29 [ 7 ] C No. 1. In Senate, December 8, 1834. REPORT from the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 2Qth June last, showing the amount of Hospital Money received, and the number, location, and cost, of the Marine Hospitals in the United States. Treasury Department, December 6, 1834. In obedience to a resolution of the Senate passed June 26, 1834, a statement is annexed, showing the amount of " hospital money which has been received at each of the custom-houses of the United States, in each year, since the passage of the act of July, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, and the amount of those receipts which has been expended in each district for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, since the date of said act; also, the number of marine hospitals which have been built in the United States, with the cost of each of them, and where they are located." In my annual report, the subject to which this resolution relates was supposed to require a few remarks in connexion with its important bearing on our commercial marine. But, as fitly associated with this statement, they were then postponed for the purpose of being, in con- junction with it, as they now are, presented. The laws as to marine hospital money are earnestly recommended for revision. It was decided as long ago as 1798, that the seamen engaged in the fisheries were not liable to its payment; and in 1831, the exemption was, by construction, ex- tended to the seamen in registered vessels while employed in the coasting trade. Hence it has happened that though our whole number of seamen of every kind, exclusive of about five thousand in the navy, is computed to be seventy-five thousand, yet we collect only about sixty-three thou- sand dollars of hospital money annually; whereas, if the whole paid it during the whole year it would amount to one hundred and eighty thou- sand dollars. After suitable deductions, if the hospital money amounted to two-thirds of that sum, it would constitute a much more adequate fund for effectual relief to the least provident class of men in society, when they are overtaken by disease, disabled by injuries, or broken down by advanced age. Whether the tax or deduction should embrace all kinds of seamen or not may be problematical; but it certainly ought to include all those in registered vessels, however employed, and be so modified as to furnish amply to this useful class of men, when in distress, all those benevolent and just aids which their contributions and services, when in health and prosperity, could easily and cheerfully provide. All of which is respectfully submitted. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. To the Hon. Martin Van Buren, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. [7] 30 Treasury Department, Register's Office, December 6, 1834. Sir : I have the honor, in compliance with your reference to this office of the resolution of the Senate of the United States of the twenty-sixth June last, to transmit a statement exhibiting the amount of the hospital money which has been received and paid at each custom-house, and in each year, since July, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, and also to state that the following marine hospitals belong to the United States, and that they cost the sums opposite to each : At Chealsea, Massachusetts - $27,603 39 At Norfolk, Virginia - 9,334 66 At Charleston, South Carolina - 17,663 01 The marine hospital at Charlestown, Massachusetts, which cost $14,842 34, was purchased in eighteen hundred and twenty-four by the Navy Department. The proceeds, $12,875, is credited in the general account herewith transmitted. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, T. L. SMITH, Register. To the Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury. 31 ['J C No. 1—Continued. STATEMENT of the moneys collected and expended under the act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, in each year, and in each col- lection district; prepared in pursuance of a resolution of the Senate of the United States, of the 26th June, 1834. Portsmouth. Passamaquoddy. Macli ias. Years. Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount received. expended. received. expended. received. expended. 1802 $2,081 69 $257 95 $47 68 1803 579 14 - 127 51 - 30 58 1804 646 15 - 86 59 - 21 19 1805 556 53 - 138 16 - 29 29- 1806 635 64 $33 74 183 51 - 42 53 1807 636 46 - 63 17 _ 41 68 1808 339 67 106 28 55 62 _ 30 0« 1809 417 14 166 30 93 99 _ 29 70 1810 604 85 171 28 177 85 - 38 92 1811 604 49 60 40 98 76 - 22 73 1812 389 55 15 15 106 85 _ 33 96 1813 139 61 489 70 24 16 _ 13 00 1814 96 64 280 88 1 94 _ 39 1815 229 46 79 03 173 34 _ 44 41 1816 412 42 299 60 347 82 _ 20 65 1817 368 12 912 77 346 80 _ 52 06 1818 479 54 442 85 4-23 62 _ 38 74 1819 513 13 748 17 256 22 _ 54 05 1820 595 12 968 87 233 61 _ 91 90 1821 525 21 918 63 277 62 _ 91 40 1822 638 90 242 72 258 12 _ 112 16 1823 716 74 664 34 211 10 _ 99 63 1834 561 02 743 92 285 94 - 76 71 1825 764 81 444 36 335 98 _ 141 16 1826 635 71 608 90 364 21 $101 00 95 14 1827 541 56 363 00 273 03 _ 141 78 1828 526 01 658 89 218 75 - 188 41 1829 403 60 335 78 339 14 190 28 179 13 1830 367 19 451 45 355 26 53 68 172 29 $41 31 1831 451 57 525 71 212 88 166 24 159 70 1832 474 61 922 58 236 89 110 20 185 56 35 35 1833 482 96 733 28 449 39 369 83 246 61 85 64 $17,415 29 $12,388 58 $7,015 75 $991 23 $2,573 22 $162 30 [ 7 ] 32 STATEMENT—Continued. Frenchman's Bay. Penobscot. Waldoborough. Years. Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount received. expended. received. expended. received. expended. 1802 $118 56 $283 88 $1,041 52 1803 48 5> - 310 25 - 327 96 1804 40 94 - 800 93 - 310 60 1805 54 71 - 357 93 - 328 41 1806 70 91 - 398 73 - 353 40 1807 76 14 - 454 94 - 415 87 1808 54 51 - 313 41 - 338 3o 1809 62 18 - 485 23 - 433 18 1810 53 46 - 474 23 - 371 48 1811 50 45 - 419 27 - 386 57 1312 92 07 - 441 13 _ 413 95 1813 58 80 - 324 28 50 00 270 77 1814 6 99 - 138 07 _ 103 98 1815 37 93 - 139 79 _ 165 41 1816 60 64 - 273 68 _ 271 16 1817 127 19 - 301 28 _ 359 16 1818 138 72 - 307 93 - 311 79 1819 106 09 - 249 30 - 369 60 1820 103 24 - 211 86 _ 364 02 1821 136 16 - 226 01 _ 411 42 1822 140 64 - 239 69 _ 404 25 1823 155 93 - 258 76 _ 377 68 1824 133 00 - 319 50 129 54 339 83 1825 163 34 - 414 55 3 03 344 33 1826 235 25 - 409 56 11 61 431 80 1827 234 18 - 415 92 _ 507 90 $58 83 1828 248 77 - 458 01 98 53 540 98 443 83 1829 207 72 - 411 09 _ 572 50 358 94 1830 199 65 - 393 24 50 25 509 96 288 33 1831 166 75 - 378 16 _ 541 18 377 75 1832 223 19 - 296 98 _ 571 46 451 01 1833 264 48 236 99 661 07 225 38 53,871 09 - $11,144 58 $342 96 $13,151 52 $2,204 07 33 [ 7 J ST ATEMEMT—Continued. Wiscasset. Bath. B.elfast. Years. Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount received. expended. received. expended. received. expended. 1802 $612 51 $489 11 1803 156 11 - 267 14 1804 149 40 - 215 01 1805 134 08 - 254 68 1806 133 59 - 285 28 1807 230 38 - 283 49 1808 78 49 - 175 16 1809 221 60 - 264 26 1810 284 99 - 266 33 1811 467 38 - 492 47 1812 276 52 - 522 16 1813 43 20 - 179 80 1814 16 96 - 45 38 1815 100 68 - 157 43 1816 129 14 - 242 88 1817 142 45 - 449 18 $268 36 1818 112 10 - 401 37 114 00 $56 57 1819 162 71 - 404 90 320 84 178 36 1820 127 37 - 578 86 134 17 256 25 1821 118 06 $128 33 338 38 298 36 242 32 $16 41 1822 135 63 55 27 407 67 1,397 65 228 35 1823 175 12 80 30 450 81 1,104 33 251 69 44 02 1824 136 20 83 57 299 27 1,137 42 317 42 1825 171 47 51 41 483 91 490 45 322 34 38 76 1826 145 03 260 45 560 48 466 10 300 77 33 09 1827 129 88 180 95 677 45 623 86 331 99 45 95 1828 125 56 83 20 618 60 570 14 446 98 52 05 1829 146 65 251 01 400 08 640 83 519 34 15 15 1830 134 38 71 60 670 36 525 40 370 38 111 48 1831 180 22 54 37 440 52 421 85 436 12 113 81 1832 146 95 7 55 472 75 645 92 465 34 151 11 1833 177 91 63 24 510 25 549 61 597 95 226 11 $5,102 72 $1,371 25 $12,305 42 $9,759 29 $5,322 17 $847 94 [ 7 J 34 STATEMENT—Continued. Portland. Saco and Biddeford. York. Years. 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Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount received. expended. received. expended. received. expended. 1802 454 52 655 98 791 34 1803 152 69 _ 417 04 724 66 268 32 1804 233 82 _ 442 61 436 17 255 69 1805 114 61 120 30 396 74 423 76 227 08 1-806 181 20 141 10 372 72 475 29 261 08 1807 178 78 152 65 343 68 531 04 271 72 125 74 1808 79 65 124 48 152 47 128 29 161 22 109 07 1309 144 40 31 81 175 54 192 52 397 72 234 42 1810 158 37 68 16 248 00 113 44 205 58 98 22 1811 101 09 96 19 212 94 115 50 162 29 206 97 1812 138 35 33 78 162 23 349 59 161 03 315 19 1813 96 67 61 45 95 08 - 122 48 367 89 1814 42 31 41 01 46 08 _ 154 31 336 29 1815 73 87 53 78 91 68 357 48 87 45 724 65 1816 217 28 224 57 251 53 157 42 164 95 218 65 1817 226 57 1,005 35 252 05 - 192 31 337 64 1918 173 82 681 58 217 89 343 71 186 27 584 53 1-819 245 91 574 49 230 48 229 88 264 25 551 71 1820 281 16 813 44 247 99 278 16 320 57 305 83 1821 239 52 59 34 225 11 267 64 245 16 713 38 1822 203 32 252 76 217 01 238 69 283 26 206 31 1823 188 97 282 06 222 17 127 62 259 66 316 74 1824 235 78 141 95 231 85 233 93 341 37 469 48 1825 220 37 218 58 241 48 354 42 298 80 895 36 1826 263 73 245 34 247 06 123 80 218 30 524 03 1827 236 06 206 76 237 30 - 181 64 514 87 1828 267 56 155 79 238 84 - 290 98 554 23 1829 286 74 328 ,60 369 23 376 09 576 69 1,178 80 1830 224 04 328 28 293 33 137 74 306 92 1,804 01 1831 179 27 411 33 229 03 134 22 298 63 463 26 1832 202 87 583 38 242 22 105 51 302 95 498 17 1833 229 15 914 45 345 02 234 07 321 96 976 06 $6,272 45 $8,352 76 $8,352 38 $7,190 64 $8,381 98 $13,631 50 55 STATEMENT—Continued. [7 ] Beaufort, N. C. Ocracoke. Plymouth. Years. Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount received. expended. received. expended. received. expended. 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 $69 64 42 27 72 82 51 17 $10 76 12 70 1808 26 80 - 52 71 - *9 08 1809 30-01 - 46 37 _ 65 22 1810 38 26 - 39 67 - 37 72 1811 58 26 - 46 12 - 64 81 $56 01 1812 42 52 - 26 63 _ 63 69 146 15 1813 122 44 - 66 57 _ 14 62 8 28 1814 85 11 - 46 58 _ 8 64 12 12 1815 39 70 $83 83 28 20 - 20 10 1816 23 21 - 52 00 - 69 27 71 10 1817 10 10 20 20 45 68 - 79 17 29 79 1818 37 23 115 47 49 77 _ 106 01 99 44 1819 39 62 - 29 29 _ 115 97 91 16 1820 42 46 52 47 48 40 - 136 13 55 46 1821 36 47 - 34 66 - 115 78 204 48 1822 27 52 - 74 89 - 101 72 91 30 1823 42 15 - 98 36 - 86 35 71 76 1824 40 06 49 66 115 55 - 96 28 107 39 1825 58 97 - 94 63 - 101 54 48 48 1826 50 97 - 112 41 - 83 81 148 57 1827 53 35 60 09 128 59 - 54 42 87 61 1828 47 92 - 195 72 $380 26 62 73 51 15 1829 41 30 64 89 157 55 1,521 06 92 07 67 35 1830 53 43 155 28 88 70 941 71 62 81 37 81 1831 49 73 _ 145 61 551 92 70 66 19 39 1832 47 63 _ 88 92 1,121 88 104 37 31 30 1833 62 05 8 84 80 60 1,440 12 109 86 113 37 $1,443 17 $610 73 $2,013 64 $5,956 95 $1,932 83 $1,649 4,7 ci 00 <2 3 a Ol PQ Amount expended. •* o> co a* $13 94 §■8 g.2 R v -Is .« «s .<-. _j_«inlo^irrJrHt0tOrHTjl000000tO00tObs.tM0»tOs0t0O'. 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Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount received. expended. received. expended. received. expended. 1802 $470 55 $31 11 1803 538 12 $391 66 §2 33 - 47 67 1804 403 11 878 36 - - 27 71 1805 358 18 350 13 - - 37 30 1806 234 01 _ 1 94 - 29 53 1807 1,334 77 _' - - 38 70 1808 250 41 460 63 - - 45 86 1809 - 4,867 32 - - 66 31 1810 246 52 251 31 - - 17 33 1811 679 17 2,729 18 - - 31 70 1812 462 14 1,279 67 - - 41 71 1813 84 95 938 65 - - 23 95 1814 186 56 1,622 59 - - 20 32 1815 145 70 1,147 21 - - 2 89 1816 315 75 2,020 00 - - 9 85 1817 583 02 2,740 70 - - 16 94 1818 627 69 3,189 28 - - 103 49 1819 570 18 5,664 64 - - 124 23 1820 736 21 6,767 00 - - 91 44 $138 37 1821 569 96 409 19 - - 90 76 66 15 1822 607 54 1,867 24 - - 100 50 304 51 1823 656 64 2,073 72 - - 84 12 361 58 1824 558 09 2,731 04 - - 56 32 54 54 1825 364 46 2,758 81 - - 66 90 28 28 1826 577 82 2,715 64 - - 30 29 35 35 1827 684 66 2,789 63 - - 53 47 36 36 1828 417 12 2,532 82 - - 66 46 1829 486 26 1,981 87 - - 56 01 63 37 1830 748 49 1,937 79 - - 51 45 52 52 1831 448 85 3,317 10 - - 61 62 50 42 1832 387 29 2,592 72 - - 45 75 35 81 1833 346 98 2,295 57 61 57 332 41 $15,081 20 $65,301 47 $4 27 - $1,633 26 $1,559 67 [7] 58 STATEMENT—Continued. St. Mary's, Ga. Hardwick. New Orleans. Years. Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount received. expended. received. expended. received. expended. 1802 $160 68 $4 06 $250 00 1803 60 70 - - _ _ 1,542 91 1804 37 88 - - - $631 06 1,451 12 1805 33 46 - - - 1,230 07 1,033 06 1806 53 25 - - - 1,427 14 3,208 27 1807 60 55 - - _ 1,504 47 4,178 09 1808 54 72 - - - 375 90 3,539 70 1809 58 28 _ _ _ 822 12 4,761 33 1810 88 43 _ - _ 594 11 1,244 30 1811 170 10 _ _ _ 892 31 3,099 67 1812 96 49 _ 2 23 _ 871 43 6,243 80 1813 19 19 _ _ _ 120 45 2,318 19 1814 - _ _ _ 203 27 1,711 19 1815 21 30 _ _ _ 286 49 3,976 61 1816 21 89 - _ _ 691 45 3,730 92 1817 70 04 - - - 1,155 57 5,995 86 1818 59 50 - _ - 1,754 46 6,173 87 1819 68 00 - - - 2,216 60 5,240 64 1820 70 33 - - - 2,379 74 4,664 94 1821 71 85 - - - 2,945 12 4,038 48 1822 67 11 - - - 2,767 08 2,803 76 1823 86 22 - - - 3,099 50 3,243 87 1824 85 13 - - - 3,029 97 5,517 64 1825 35 15 - , - - 2,600 32 4,590 71 1826 17 94 - - - 3,059 61 4,900 77 1827 23 17 - - - 3,593 06 6,358 45 1828 23 75 - , - - 3,599 41 8,446 12 1829 28 50 - - -. 3,705 53 6,757 74 1830 65 28 - - - 4,181 90 8,138 83 1831 23 20 - - - 4,485 73 7,378 85 1832 39 58 $5 05 - - 3,655 52 9,018 88 1833 31 02 5 05 3,819 39 7,700 55 $1,802 69 $10 10 $6 29 - $61,698 78 $143,259 17 w H O H CO oi JO O P Ol 313 O P 3 Ol < X 01 •HOlXlNMSWOHOOWOKtON bs.bs.coooto©bs.bs.©ocoeo 3*3 1.8 P 0) •< Ol cstooo i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i go^;"^: «9. \ -------------------------------------------------------- 00 Ol CO CM 01 .3 U 01 h-."3 3 01 = "2 O P p u ■< H 01 CO CM b-Ol CO o ,, ,|| IIIIIIIIIIIIIII^IIICSIM CM co 00 CS eg to • COCS ts.CO o tO0000© rH to b. Oi COCO CO Ol Ol CO O ■* rH •* bs. CM li III O 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 Ol to I ■* »o >s-Ol 00 ■* © 00 CO b-CM rH CM rH rH CO rH to CS to 00 Ol rH CNC0-*t0IObs.00OlOrHCSC0TjOrHCSC0,0tOb-000lOrHCM00 OOOOOOOOrHrHrHrHrHrHrHrHrHrHCSCMCMCSCMCMCMCSCSeSCOCOCOCO OOOO0O000O0OOO000OOOOOOOOO00OOOOOO000O0000OO00OO0O00OOOO0QO0CO0O [ 7 ] 60 STATEMENT—Continued. Palmyra. Massac. Natchez. Years. Amount received. Amount expended. Amount received. Amount expended. Amount received. Amount expended. 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 $139 37 - $21 33 26 04 1 92 - $383 22 42 42 362 87 197 97 169 94 131 83 $139 37 - $49 29 - $1,288 25 61 [7] STATEMENT—Continued. Fort Adams. Pensacola. St. Augustine. Years. Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount received. expended. received. expended. received. expended. 1802 1803 1804 $45 69 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 _ _ $27 59 - $14 26 6 06 1822 _ - 41 43 $826 45 51 50 64 64 1823 _ _ 16 67 203 89 27 13 125 75 1824 _ _ 59 24 841 84 25 10 19 19 1825 _ _ 64 83 811 41 30 72 11 11 1826 _ _ 125 95 50 50 29 93 4 04 1827 _ _ 91 87 106 29 5 31 43 43 1828 _ _ 91 23 93 42 24 16 172 34 1829 _ _ 75 97 122 95 39 04 107 31 1830 _ _ 70 67 176 86 28 77 335 21 1831 _ _ 79 68 5 17 6 26 70 49 1833 _ _ 114 58 144 43 20 95 48 56 1833 132 50 61 11 17 72 71 11 $45 69 - $992 21 $3,444 32 $320 85 $1,079 33 [ 7 ] 62 STATEMENT—Continued. Pearl River. Key West. Appalachicola. Years. Amount received. Amount expended. Amount received. Amount expended. Amount received. Amount. expended. 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 $45 03 80 23 94 19 82 85 84 79 74 59 94 10 48 37 67 13 64 22 57 93 $104 78 28 91 $50 43 60 15 349 83 286 39 330 78 453 44 362 23 320 42 410 52 284 61 251 90 $452 28 137 46 320 66 509 45 398 80 175 16 494 99 469 30 $11 06 97 3 10 33 33 44 12 36 08 115 43 115 39 113 35 $63 63 15 76 34 34 215 00 $793 43 $133 69 $3,160 70 $2,958 10 $472 83 $328 73 63 [ 7 ] STATEMENT—Continued. St. Mark's. Vermont. Champlain. Years. Amount received. Amount expended. Amount received. Amount expended. Amount received. Amount expended. 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 $5 21 7 86 8 25 2 72 12 48 20 20 5 30 49 28 82 26 16 58 75 86 17 67 16 16 34 33 38 95 18 32 26 12 8 86 17 37 , $36 52 25 50 223 98 68 16 83 39 26 23 [ 7 ] 64 STATEMENT—Continued. Oswegatchie. Sackett's Harbor. Oswego. Years. Amount received. Amount expended. Amount received. Amount expended. Amount received. Amount expended. 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 26 96 23 42 69 67 74 89 13 09 28 78 21 79 12 89 26 16 37 73 14 69 67 27 71 55 66 23 126 89 51 60 40 13 93 22 $194 94 41 87 98 57 14 69 331 94 184 95 o I H z << H co cocooococooooocoooeooooocxioocooooocnoooooooooooooooooocooooooooo GcaCoCoMMlOtOMMts'. MMMmmh-m — mmSmmooSooOOO C3MM©tOWMOlO»lrsMMM©tp00-^C3lOl>t>.C3MM©tO00- S 3 *'§ a. s 3 to M M Ol tft *v o © 1 1 OiS ©on si 8*1 O M 8 45 72-100 08 133 94 121 76 re _» re 3 si p. 3, o c » p-o OC. » CO M Oft CO M 23 86 68 28 145 27 87 91 •o a 2 § S.E re 3, a. Ol Oi Oft 1 1 1 Ol On Ol n > " 3 re s 3'° re g p. 3, CO 3 p 95 70 CO Oft M MOM Oft *- Ol CO to 03 re H > "° a re 3 3 O Q.P re 3 Q, rr CO H r> H W w H I o 05 67 [ ~ I STATEMENT—Continued. St. John's. Michilimackinac. Cincinnati. Years. Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount received. expended. received. expended. received. expended. 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 t 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 i 1817 1818 j 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1331 6 70 _ 4 66 - 55 87 1832 7 73 37 37 _ - 453 07 32 22 1833 1 16 45 57 6 79 481 73 434 16 15 59 82 94 11 45 - 990 67 466 38 00 CO Z W w H co r5 Amount exp'd. Amount •eceived. •>* oo rs. CM 00 b-CM r* 01 0* Ui O p Et O H p . 3 TJ P> 1 ' e g •^ Ol 38 41 82 08 103 80 105 94 CO CS o CO CO "33 r* 3 Amount exp'd. i i i i 1 Amount received. | CS to 'b- ' ' CM CS to ts. CM 3 J2 Amount expended. 32 97 56 50 89 47 Amount received. 32 83 83 47 411 20 o to ts. CS 01 • X. COCOCOCOCOCOCOO0CO0000O0CO0OO000000000000000O0000000O0CO00O0O0O0 69 [ 7 ] RE CAP ITU LA TION. Districts. Amount received. Amo'nt expended. Passamaquoddy ..... 87,015 75 $991 23 Machias ...... 2,573 22 162 30 Penobscot ...... 11,144 58 342 96 Frenchman's Bay ..... 3,871 09 Belfast ...... 5,322 17 847 94 Waldoborough ..... 13,151 52 2,204 07 Wiscasset ...... 5,502 72 1,371 25 Bath ...... 12,305 42 9,759 29 Portland ...... 34,064 03 29,495 13 Saco ------- 3,374 67 Kennebunk - - 5,788 19 382 54 York ...... 1,747 56 Portsmouth ------ 17,415 29 12,388 58 Newburyport ..... 17,656 23 260 76 Ipswich ...... 1,014 56 Gloucester ...... 9,460 40 682 97 Marblehead ------ 8,092 49 Salem - - 56,477 33 766 22 Boston ...... 219,396 26 280,765 72 Plymouth ...... 11,000 28 Dighton ...... 6,979 15 Barnstable ...... 24,835 92 1,441 85 Edgartown - -. - 8,914 61 1,116 32 Nantucket ...... 7,076 26 78 81 New Bedford ..... 17,046 41 472 27 Burlington, Vermont .... 223 98 68 16 Providence ------ 30,292 01 23,510 35 Bristol 9,589 59 4,867 66 Newport ...... 21,552 56 26,917 69 Middletown - - 14,215 56 5,790 33 New London ------ 17,385 09 23,188 44 New Haven ------ 16,866 77 6,090 65 Fairfield ...... 9,854 54 46 95 Champlain ...... 83 39 2G 23 Oswegatchie ...... 194 94 41 87 Cape Vincent ..... 139 74 33 33 Sackett's Harbor ..... 98 57 14 69 Oswego ...... 331 94 184 95 Niagara - ... 10 50 Buffalo ...... 824 76 471 00 Hudson ...... 2,349 98 Sag Harbor - - - . - 5,304 72 333 02 New York ------ 358,357 12 379,826 04 Genesee ...... 99 46 Perth Amboy - - - - 16,422 24 Burlington ------ 4,526 96 Little Egg Harbor . - - - - 4,347 90 232 89 Great Egg Harbor - 7,786 72 3,442 09 Bridgetown ------ 17,440 56 29 04 Pittsburg ------ 527 50 89 47 Presque Isle ------ 285 83 6 97 Philadelphia - 151,479 81 266,210 97 Wilmington, Delaware .... 20,792 98 65 20 Havre de Grace . - - - - 2,316 22 Baltimore ------ 103,149 31 302,661 74 Chestertown - - - - - 2,485 66 Annapolis ...... 5,981 87 3,887 32 Oxford ...... 3,224 77 Nottingham ------ 1,356 23 Vienna ...... 11,598 25 I - ] 70 RECAPITULATION— Continued. Districts. Amount received. Amo'nt expended. Snow Hill - $5,571 97 St. Mary's 2,504 47 $75 85 Town Creek - - - 330 23 Georgetown - - - 5,977 09 2,612 03 Alexandria . 17,342 46 14,703 69 Tappahannock 6,840 15 2,156 58 Dumfries 733 65 Yeocomico ... 2,089 74 16 00 Folly Landing 4,230 11 Richmond 8,117 41 4,175 02 East River ... 2,990 97 Yorktown - - - 3,695 07 Petersburg ... 7,688 54 8,906 42 Cherrystone - - - 5,238 42 Hampton ... 1,818 83 Norfolk 41,978 74 161,180 92 South Quay ... 45 27 Camden 8,381 98 13,631 50 Edenton ... 8,352 38 7,190 64 (Plymouth ... 1,932 83 1,649 47 '"Washington - - - 6,272 45 8,352 76 Newbern ... 8,063 46 5,453 64 Ocracoke ... 2,013 64 5,956 95 Beaufort 1,443 17 610 73 "Wilmington, N. C. - 14,582 18 14,386 82 Georgetown, S. C. - 914 96 594 61 Charleston - -, - 43,453 32 80,107 56 Beaufort - 456 36 13 94 Savannah ... 15,0^.1 20 65,301 47 Hardwick ... 6 29 Brunswick ... 1,633 26 1,559 67 St. Mary's 1,802 69 10 10 Sunbury ... 4 27 Pensacola ... 992 21 3,444 32 St Mark's - 36 52 25 50 Appalachicola 472 83 328 73 St. Augustine 320 85 1,079 33 Key West 3,160 70 2,958 10 St. John's ... 15 59 82 94 Mobile 9,067 29 11,506 19 Blakely 27 62 New Orleans ... 61,698 78 143,259 17 Teche 186 26 218 32 Massac .... 49 29 Natchez ... 1,288 25 Palmyra 139 37 Fort Adams ... 45 69 Pearl River ... 793 43 133 69 Cuyahoga .... 401 50 325 32 Sandusky .... 6 55 95 70 Miami .... 53 89 91 25 Cincinnati .... 990 67 466 38 Detroit .... 213 98 149 69 Michilimackinac 11 45 Nashville .... 278 41 $1,664,512 83 $1,954,378 29 71 [ 7 ] Amount received and expended in each State and Territory. State or Territory. Amount received. Amo'nt expended. Maine ------ $105,810 92 $45,556 71 New Hampshire - 17,415 29 12,388 58 Massachusetts - 387,949 90 285,584 95 Vermont ---... 223 98 68 16 Rhode Island ---... 61,434 16 55,295 70 Connecticut --.... 5S,321 96 35,116 37 New York ---... 367,795 12 380,931 13 New Jersey ---... 50,524 38 3,704 02 Pennsylvania - - . . . 152,293 14 266,307 41 Delaware 20,792 98 65 20 Maryland - 138,518 98 306,624 91 District of Columbia - 23,319 55 17,315 72 Virginia ---... 85,466 90 176,434 94 North Carolina ..... 51,042 09 57,232 51 South Carolina 44,824 64 80,716 11 Georgia ...... 18,527 71 66,871 24 Florida ...... 4,998 70 7,918 92 Alabama ...... 9,094 91 11,506 19 Louisiana ...... 61,885 04 143,477 49 Mississippi ...... 2,316 03 133 69 Ohio ....... 1,452 61 978 65 Michigan ...... 225 43 149 69 Tennessee ...... 278 41 $1,664,512 83 $1,954,378 29 From the receipts deduct amount received by Robert Arnold, not yet paid into the Treasury 2,045 08 $1,662,467 75 Add amount received from the Navy Department, collected under the second section of the act of 2d March, 1799 ..... 38,513 96 The appropriations by Congress ... 238,069 34 And the proceeds of the sale of old Marine Hospital, at Charlestown, Massachusetts ... 12,875 00 To the expenditures add the amount carried at sun- dry times to the surplus fund ... - 537 33 $1,951,926 05 $1,954,915 62 The receipts deducted from the expenditures - 1,951,926 05 Leaves the excess of expenditures as exhibited in the printed public accounts for 1833 - - $2,989 57 Treasury Department, Register's Office, December 6, 1834. T. L. SMITH, Register. [ 7 ] 72 C No 2. House of Representatives, February 13, 1836. LETTER from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Hon. Joel B. Suther- land, chairman of the Committee on Commerce, upon the subject of Marine Hospitals. Washington, January 18, 1836. Sir : I have been directed by the Committee on Commerce to request the views of the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to the best mode of establishing and sustaining marine hospitals for the reception of the sick who, from time to time, are landed for medical treatment upon the shores of the Western waters. The committee desire at the same time, a report as to the number of marine hospitals, their location, how many sick received during the last year, and the present condition of those establishments, and generally any information that may be deemed im- portant by the Treasury Department, connected with this inquiry. Respectfully, I remain yours, J. B. SUTHERLAND. To the Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury. Treasury Department, January 20, 1836. Sir: In reply to your inquiries of the 18th instant, I have the honor to submit the following statements: The number of marine hospitals in the United States for seamen in the merchant service, and which belong to the General Government, is only three. They are situated, one in Chelsea, Massachusetts, one in Norfolk, Virginia, and one in Charleston, South Carolina. The cost of each is stated in a report from this Department to the Senate, read and printed December 8, 1834. In the other parts of the United States where seamen fall sick who are entitled to relief under the hospital fund, and where the proceeds of it have not been exhausted, they receive aid either at private boarding-houses, or in the alms-houses near, or in city hospitals, at a reasonable price per week for board, nursing, and medical attendance, and under contracts made by the collectors of the respective ports. In the above United States marine hospitals, except at Charles- ton, which is managed under a special contract with that city, there is a permanent physician, and other necessary assistants, employed by the collectors and this Department. It is believed that the expense of relief to each seaman per week, is at present about the same out as within the public hospitals, and that by vigilance and experience, the fund has of late years been so administered as to assist many more for the same amount than it was enabled to do formerly. Only such seamen receive relief as have contributed towards the fund; and as none are by law obliged to contribute except those employed in registered vessels, (coming from abroad and in coasting vessels,) it happens that only a portion, and in many parts a small portion, of those diseased can, by law, be assisted. We are not only compelled to exclude all from the benefit of the fund 73 [ ? ] who have not been taxed, but sometimes to restrict the assistance in re- spect to many who have been taxed. For further explanation upon this point, you are referred to a letter addressed by me, December 26, 1834'to the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, a copy of which is annexed, (No. 1.) The whole fund is only about $63,000 annually, though the whole number of our seamen in the merchant ser- vice is supposed to exceed 75,000, and if all contributed, the funds would, at twenty cents per month while they are employed, be probably more than doubled. I had the honor at the last session to make some remarks on this point in the above report to the Senate, and to which you are now referred for further particulars. The sums paid and expended in each State, and each port in the United States, from 1802 to 1833, in- clusive, are exhibited in a document annexed to that report. It would, in my opinion, be unnecessary either on the seaboard or the Western waters, to erect hospitals at any point or port at which, or near which, the number of seamen who contributed to the fund and are enti- tled to relief, is so small as not to require such buildings for their accom- modation. But if the contributors to the fund were multiplied, so as to include all seamen engaged in the fisheries, and in the coasting trade, or in steamboats, it is probable that the number entitled to relief at some places in the West as well as elsewhere, would probably be so great as to require public buildings foi their suitable accommodation. 1 he whole number of seamen who now actually receive relief, some only for a few days and others for months, is ascertained and estimated to be only about 4,600 a year; and at many of the ports of the ordinary size, as will be seen in the document above named, the average expenditure to all entitled, and so far as the fund will admit, is only from two to five hundred dollars per year. As this relief is not intended and never has been, to embrace any who have not contributed to the lund, it must be obvious that the erection of hospitals for others would be the introduction of a system entirely new under the General Government, and that such patients within them must be maintained by annual appropria- tions from the public treasury or a tax of some new character. On the expediency of establishing such a system I do not propose to otter any comments, as your inquiries seem rather directed to improvements in the present system, retaining, as it is presumed, its original principles of furnishing relief only to those who have been taxed or have paid to- wards creating the hospital fund. With the above explanations I would then respectfully suggest, in re- ply to your inquiries as to " the best mode of establishing and sustain- ing marine hospitals" on the Western waters, and any information on the whole subject, or any improvements which seem proper, that the present laws for collecting hospital money be extended so as to embrace all seamen in all vessels, whether registered, enrolled, or licensed, and in all steamboats of every description, and that all such seamen be enti- tled to relief under the fund. Should it be deemed proper to extend the collection still further, to all persons engaged in rowing or navigating any boats, rafts, or vessels, ot any description, that touch or pass any port of entry or delivery, some- what like the law once in force on the Mississippi at Fort Adams, before the purchase of Louisiana, then it would seem to be proper to extend. the relief pari passu to those classes of persons, but not otherwise. L 7 1 74 It might, however, be judicious to provide, similar to the 5th section of the act of May 30, 1802, concerning foreign seamen, that in all the marine hospitals of the United States now or hereafter established, all such persons when sick, and, indeed, all strangers, should be received and attended in them, when the accommodations may permit, on the payment weekly of a bare sufficiency to defray the necessary expenses of board and nursing. In the event of such a change in the law as is above suggested to be proper, new hospitals might be useful at several other points on the At- lantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico, especially at New Orleans, and at some on the Northern lakes and Western rivers. But as the whole fund is now required for relief to the sick already entitled to aid, it will be necessary to make appropriations from the treasury for the erection of such build- ings as Congress may deem necessary and proper, if they are soon to be commenced. Respectfully yours, LEVI WOODBURY. Hon. J. B. Sutherland, Chairman Committee on Commerce, H. R. (No. 1.) Extract of a letter to the 'Hon. James K. Polk, Chairman of the Com- mittee of Ways and Means, House of Representatives of the United States. Treasury Department, December 26, 1834. 2d. In regard to the item of $25,000 required to make good a deficien- cy in the fund established by the acts of 16th July, 1798, and 3d May, 1802. The ascertained excess of expenditure incurred for relief of sick and disabled seamen, over and above the ordinary receipts arising under the acts referred to, and the aids derived from former appropriations, amount- ed on the 1st of January last to the sum of - - $2,989 57 The ascertained expenditures from that period until the 30th September last were - - - - 56,738 82 The estimated disbursements for the quarter ending 31st De- cember, instant, this sum - - - 20,000 00 $79,728 39 From which deduct the estimated receipts for 1834, this sum 50,000 00 Leaving a balance against the fund, at the close of the year 1834, amounting to - - - - - $24,728 39 The resources of the fund have never been adequate to meet the de- mands upon it. Hence, notwithstanding the various restrictions which at different periods have been imposed to keep the disbursements within the capacity of the fund, repeated deficiencies have arisen, and must con- tinue to arise, while the fund is dependent on the means provided by 75 [ 7 1 present enactments, and administered according to existing arrangements. The support of the public hospitals at Chelsea, Norfolk, and at Charles- ton, is charged upon the fund. By the rules prescribed for its applica- tion, patients afflicted with mania, lunacy, chronic, and other incurable diseases, are excluded from its benefits. The term of relief is limited to' four months. In places where there are no public or local hospitals, and where more advantageous terms cannot be had, medical charges are re- stricted to twenty cents per diem ; boarding, lodging, nursing, and wash- ing, to two dollars and fifty cents per week, with an addition of twenty per cent, in districts south of the Potomac. Funeral expenses are limit- ed to six dollars. It is believed that a further contraction in the provision made for sea- men, or in the scale of expenditure, could not be made consistently with a due regard to the claims of humanity, and the helpless and improvident condition of those for whom the benefit of the laws was designed ; and hence, rather than abridge the scanty relief authorized by existing regulations, I have preferred to follow the example of my predecessors, and trust, as heretofore, to the bounty of Congress, or to its further legis- lation in devising some auxiliary resource in aid of the fund. In con- nexion with this subject, I would respectfully refer the Committee of Ways and Means to a report from this Department to the Senate, dated the 6th instant. 3. Repair of the marine hospital wharf at Chelsea.—The design of the appropriation asked for this object will more fully appear from my letter to the Committee of Ways and Means dated the 5th instant, and the pa- pers therewith submitted, 4, 5, 6. All which is respectfully submitted. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. C No. 3. House of Representatives, May 25, 1836. LETTER from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the informa- tion required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th ultimo, respecting Marine Hospitals. Treasury Department, May 25, 1836. Sir : In obedience to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of April last, calling for certain information respecting marine hospitals, I have the honor to transmit to the House the accompanying statement,prepared by the Register of the Treasury, which gives the in- formation required. I am, very respectfully, &c. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. Honorable James K. Polk, Speaker of the House of Representatives. [ 7 ] 76 STATEMENT of the Marine Hospital Fund Districts or ports. Agents. T3 (0 B rt C 0J E a en Accommodation. Rate of board and nursing. MAINE. Passamaquoddy James W. Ripley & John A. Balk-ham. 23 Private-houses 1 75 to 2 50 p week $'240 70 Machias Samuel A. Morse 3 Do. 2 00 p week 77 00 Castine, Penobscot Joshua Carpenter _ . - Frenchman's bay - Edward S. Jarvis ., . . Belfast Daniel Lane 21 Hosp'l & private house 2, 2 25,2 50 318 37 Waldoborough Denny McCobS - 37 Private family 2 50 p week 567 30 Wiscasset - John D. McCrate 1 Do. 2 00 p week 13 15 Bath Joseph Sewall r 33 Hosp'l & private-house 2 50 to 3 57 p week 839 68 Portland & Falmouth John Chandler 48 Hospital 2 50 p week 501 79 Saco & Biddeford - John F. Scamman _ . . Kennebunk Barnabas Palmer - 8 Boarding 1 40, 1 50, 2, 2 50 77 75 York Mark Dennett 174 $2,635 74 NEW HAMPSHIRE. Portsmouth Daniel P. Drown 43 Boarding & alms-house 2 to 2 50 p w $450 79 VERMONT. Burlington & Alburg Archib'd W. Hyde MASSACHUSETTS. Ipswich Timothy Souther - - . . Newburyport Samuel Phillips - 2 Boarding-house 2 50p week 11 78 Gloucester William Beach 1 Alms-house - Do. 20 00 Marblehead Benjamin Knight - _ . . Salem and Beverly James Miller _ . . Boston, Chelsea David Henshaw - 604 Marine hosp'l, Chelsea 11 70 to 14 52 p month 8,185 99 Plymouth - S. Sampson - . - Fall river, Dighton Phineas W. Leland _ ■ . Barnstable Isaiah L. Green - 20 Private family and alms-house. 2 50 p week 218 19 New Bedford Lemuel Williams - 20 Alms-house - Do. 185 69 Edgartown John P. Norton - _ . . Nantucket Martin T. Morton 2 649 Private lodgings 2 50 p week 9 28 $8,630 93 RHODE ISLAND. Providence Walt. R. Danforth 99 Private houses 2 50 p week 991 66 Bristol and Warren Nathaniel Bullock 13 Do. Do. 170 00 Newport - William Littlefield 15 127 Hospital Do. 180 35 $1,342 01 O $364 90 32 00 14 20 II (ft o to o $4 40 5 00 1,000 00 75 60 63 40 2 50 on Ol o t o to $58 00 54 37 122 60 5 00 146 40 21 60 to *" 2. a. to | •s* On to On iO O oo to to i— *»■ o O 00 o (ftp—*. ■6» Ol (ft (ft to oo $1 78 2 88 540 37 71 12 37 83 2 00 *>■ to 00 Ol ->* $48 48 54 48 184 25 57 65 91 91 gj 01 c. o° a' On o ■6ft 00 t IS Oft o o o on on o $2 50 3 00 *o o o to 1-1 on o $10 00 1 00 10 50 3 2. ?aq 1 1 1 1 1 iii i i i i i i i i i 1 on oo o W9 On 1 0a III 1 1 1 1 t 1 1 o Clothing. o o » o' ' o 1 ill i i i i i i i i i 1 1 II III 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Other charges. to |8 l l to o o 1 Is III 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 00 1 <3 o On Oi O o $6 00 6 00 6 00 20 00 18 00, Funeral expenses. to 1 1 i to 00 1 00 L Ol 1 1 Ol 1 1 1 1 1 00 • - | . „ 1 Deaths. JO to 03 to on 00 1» toto"oo oo to to to to o 00 O Ol