{"value"=>"<p>These printed forms, entitled \"Abstract of daily returns respecting the sick and wounded in the general military hospitals of the United States\", are completed with statistical data for each day of a month, at a single hospital.</p> <p>Column headings present are: date, hospital, district, medical officer, remaining under treatment at last daily report, number of admissions since last daily report, aggregate of sick remaining at last report and of cases admitted since, cases sent from hospital or otherwise discharged from treatment since last daily report, remaining under treatment, aggregate of discharged since last report and of sick still remaining, discrepancies, number of furloughed absent, number of beds, constant sick or mean remaining under treatment at the present and at the last report, and complete cases treated or mean of received for and discharged from treatment since last report.</p> <p>Abstracts show inconsistent use of the district column, which may be filled with a city, geographic location or locale, or hospital name.</p> <p>Not listed on the forms is the regional military department with which each hospital is associated, though abstracts were originally grouped by these departments and this arrangement has been retained. Departments are arranged geographically in compliance with the geographic arrangement used throughout the Statistical Bureau's work. Within a department, abstracts are arranged alphabetically by district or locale, thereunder chronologically by month, and in no particular order within, unless otherwise stated.</p> <p>Some abstracts have location, hospital name, and date but are not completed with statistical data. These incomplete abstracts remain in chronological order by month within their district.</p>"}