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prevously employed a physician for Jackson and the accommodation of the Actg Asst Comm on duty here, and until the approval of the Asst Comm-missioner. I found that he was treating about 40 patients daily in their quarters, which in many instances were better calculated to create disease than to perfect the persons of their inhabitants from the scorching sun and pelting storms. At that time I had no remedy for this state of things at any command, as the Surgeon General had not yet authorized the issuing of hospital supplies at Freedman and the Assistant Commissioner did not think the financial condition of the Bureau warranted us in making the necessary purchases. Since that we have provided the supplies by requisition in the medical Purveyor and the hospital is now being established. At Meridian I found a couple of 50 dependent freedmen of whom twenty (20) or more were sick. The Sub commissioner had provided a physician to meet the necessity promising to pay him whatever he and I might agree 

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