The medical director had the regimental hospital removed to Algiers on the nineteenth, in order to secure the services of Surgeon Heintzelman.
The hospital record tells the following story of sickness in July. At Bayou Gentilly, July 2d, forty-four men were taken sick, most of the cases among the paroled men recently arrived from Brashear City. On the third, of sick in quarters: fourteen were in Company A, twelve in B, six in C, two in D, fourteen in E, and eight in H. July 4th, ninety-five men were sick: twenty-seven in hospital and sixty-eight in quarters. The average sick per day at Gentilly up to July 11th was: taken sick, twelve; returned to duty, ten; in hospital, twenty-seven; in quarters, fifty-five. At Algiers, July 20th, one hundred and seven new cases were reported on the sick list; nearly all were sick in quarters. The largest number sick on any one day was reported by the surgeon in his morning report of July 22d, when one hundred and forty-five men were sick and unfit for duty, in and out of hospital, viz.: Company A, twenty-one; B, twenty-two; C, seventeen; D, two; E, twenty-seven; F, fifteen; G, two; H, eighteen; I, five; K, sixteen. Not until the twenty-third did the paroled men from Galveston begin to show signs of breaking down, when eleven men of Company D, six of G, and eight of I were taken sick. After this date sick in quarters gradually diminished, but the sick in hospital kept that building full. The average sick per day at Algiers was: taken sick, twenty-three; returned to duty, seventeen; in hospital, thirty; in quarters, sixty-two.
Had the regiment remained in the Department another month the deaths would have doubled those in July, owing to the debilitated condition of many men. The deaths were:
July 4th—Sergeant Philip P. Hackett, Company G, congestion of the brain. At Gentilly.
July 7th—Corporal Uriel Josephs, Company A, jaundice. At Marine Hospital, New Orleans.
July 8th—Private Rufus G. Hildreth, Company C, dysentery. At Gentilly.
July 12th—Quartermaster-Sergeant Henry C. Foster, suicide. In New Orleans.
July 17th—Private Thomas J. Clements, Company H, chronic diarrhœa. At Gentilly.
July 17th—Private Welcome Temple, Company H, disease not known. At United States Barracks.
July—Private Patrick Fitzpatrick, Company E, chronic diarrhœa. In New Orleans.