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ANNUAL REPORT
THE SURGEON GENERAL UNITED STATES ARMY
Fiscal Year 1961
OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Lieutenant General Leonard D. Heaton
The Surgeon General, United States Army
Foreword
Summary of Major Accomplishments
Patient Care and Related Activities
- Hospital Clinic Care
- Professional Consultant Activities
- General Medicine
- Surgery
- Psychiatry and Neurology
- Pathology and Laboratory
Activities
- Pharmacy
- Nursing Service
- Dental Service
- Hospital Food Service
- Care of Tuberculous Alien
Dependents
- Armed Services Medical Regulating
Activities
- Inquiries
- Dependents' Medical Care Program
- Army Health Experience and Trends
Physical Standards
- Preinduction Examination Results
Preventive Medicine
- Communicable Disease Control
- Occupational Health
- Environmental Hygiene
- Army Health Nursing
- Nutrition
- Civil Public Health
- World Health Data
- Preventive Medicine Personnel and
Training
- Publications
Diversified Support to Field Forces
- Tactical Forces Program
- Changes Affecting Tables of
Organization and Equipment
- Changes Affecting Tables of
Allowances
- Changes Affecting Supply Manuals
- Atropine Authorization for
Theaters of Operations
- Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics
Authorization for Theaters of Operations
- AMEDS Display at JCS Demonstration
- Troop Test, Air Ambulance Support of an Airborne Corps
- USCONARC STRAC Superior Unit Award
Preparedness
- Mobilization Plan
- Convertible Bus-Type Ambulance
Vehicles
- Reorganization of TOE Units in
CONUS
Aviation Medicine
- Army Aviation Medical Officers
- Aviation Medicine Training
- Medical Service Corps Aviators
- Medical Helicopter Ambulance Units
Cited
- Aircraft
Construction
- New Hospitals
- Army Health Facility Concept
- Construction of Quarters for
Nurses (Female Officers)
- Other Projects
Medical Supply and Equipment
- Medical-Dental Division, Army
Stock Fund
- Medical Materiel Program for
Nuclear Casualties
- Procurement
- Maintenance of Medical Equipment
- Depot Supply Operation
- Fabrication of Spectacles
- Ambulance Replacement Program
- Hospital Equipment Program
- Reconstitution of Major Medical
Assemblages
- Medical Materiel for Defense
Against Biological and Chemical Warfare
Reorganization of the Office of The Surgeon General
Redesignation of the Army Medical Service School
Consolidation of Army and Special Regulations of the 40,
41, and 42 Series
Discontinuance of the Armed Forces Medical Journal and the
Armed Forces Medical Publication Agency
Combat Development Program
Research and Development
- Medical Research
- Environmental Medicine
- Surgical
Research
- Dental Research
- Preventive Medicine Research
- Ionizing Radiation Research
- Neuropsychiatry and
Psychophysiology
- Operations Research
- Development of Material
Military Personnel
- Officer Authorizations and
Strengths
- Officer Procurement
- Officer Promotions
- AMEDS Corps Activities
- Personnel Actions
- Legislation
- Enlisted Personnel
Training of Officers
- Residencies
- Affiliate and Civilian Institution
Training
- Service School Courses
- Training Guidance
- Staffing Requirements for Higher
Headquarters and Senior Services
-
College Attendance
- Degree Program and Other Federal
Service Courses
- Postgraduate Professional Short
Courses
Civilian Personnel
- Recruitment
- Public Law 313 and Supergrade
Positions
- Wage Board Supervisory Pay Plan
- Classification
- Employment of Handicapped
- Middle Manager Training
- Career Management
- Incentive Awards
- Suggestion Program
- Civilian Personnel Conference
- Visits and Inspections
- Civilian Strengths
Veterinary Activities
- Organization
- Personnel
- Training
- Animal Service
- Food Inspection
- Research
Medical Reserve Program
- Status of Units
- Actions and Programs
- Advisory Council Meeting
- Reserve Training
Management
- Management Improvement
- Automatic Data-Processing Systems
- Budgeting
- Mechanized Accounting
- Comptroller Course
- Policy Review Council
Medical History Program
Public Information
Tables
1. Movement of patients authorized by Armed
Services Medical Regulating Office
2. Nonbattle admission rates to hospital and
quarters, U.S. Army military personnel, fiscal years 1959, 1960, and 1961
3. Disease admission rates to hospital and
quarters, U.S. Army military personnel, by month, fiscal years 1959, 1960, and
1961
4. Average daily noneffective rates (hospital
and quarters), U.S. Army military personnel, fiscal years 1959, 1960, and
1961
5. Hospital admissions, patient census, and
final dispositions, U.S. Army military personnel in military hospitals,
worldwide, fiscal years 1959, 1960, and
1961
6. Patient census, admissions, and bed
occupancy, U.S. Army fixed hospitals, fiscal years 1961 and (in part)
1960
7. Outpatient visits, by category of patient,
U.S. Army medical treatment facilities, worldwide, fiscal years 1959, 1960,
1961
8. Results of preinduction examinations of
selective service registrants processed for military service, fiscal years
1958-61
9. Total calls for inductees, fiscal years
1958-61
10. Depot space allocations and workload, fiscal year
1961
11. Authorized and actual strength of AMEDS officers, by
corps, fiscal years 1960 and 1961
12. Regular Army authorizations and strength of the Army
Medical Service, by corps, 30 June 1961
13. Actual and projected strengths of, and estimated
requirements for, Army Medical Corps specialists (board certified and board
eligible), fiscal years 1961 and 1962
14. Requirements for, and availability of, key ANC
officers, worldwide, by title and MOS
15. Army Medical Service school
courses, fiscal year 1961
16. Officers in attendance at service school courses other
than Army Medical Service, fiscal year 1961
17. Long courses at civilian institutions, fiscal year 1961
18. Long courses at civilian institutions under
degree-completion program
19. Army Medical Service officers in school courses in
other Federal services, fiscal year 1961
20. Postgraduate professional short courses for Army
Medical Service officers, fiscal year 1961
Charts
Rheumatic fever and
streptococcal disease, U. S. Army, continental United States
Figures
- Lieutenant General Leonard D. Heaton, The Surgeon General,
United States Army
- The Surgeon General, visiting a children's ward of the 121st Evacuation
Hospital, during an inspection tour of U.S. Army medical units in Korea
- Practicing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation during classroom training for Army
Medical Service enlisted men
- Operating-room setup, 3d Surgical Hospital (Mobile Army), Fort George G. Meade,
Md.
- Admitting Office, 3d Surgical Hospital (Mobile Army), receiving simulated
surgical casualties during field training exercises
- 36th Evacuation Hospital, 68th Medical Group, Fort George G. Meade, Md.
- Evacuation of casualty by HU-1A helicopter ambulance, during field training
exercises
- Munson Army Hospital, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
- Kimbrough Army Hospital, Fort George G. Meade, Md.
- The low-silhouetted armored personnel carrier converted to use as M113 field
ambulance
- The versatile Army "mule" serving as a frontline evacuation vehicle
- Advisory Council to The Surgeon General on Reserve Affairs
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