Excerpt from Annual Report of the Surgeon-General, U. S. Navy Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to the Secretary of the Navy: For the Fiscal Year 1910 It is gratifying to report that the department's plan of assigning a hospital steward to each of the large destroyers has been a success, and the experience so far indicates that these men are doing good work and have demonstrated their usefulness as a art of the com plement. It is believed that a hospital apprentice, rst class, should be assigned to each of the smaller torpedo crafts, which opinion seems to be generally shared by the commanding officers of these vessels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.