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been received as yet

If it is the object of the Bureau to furnish all the medical attention necessary, there should be some five or six more physicians employed- the exact number I cannot give, as it has been out of any power to visit the entire field.

I have issued a Circular requiring medical offices in the employ of the Bureau, and Sub. Commissioner to report to me the number of Refugees and Freedmen at their inspection posts- entitled to the benefit of the medical department of the Bureau but have not yet received said reports. When there come in my successor will be able to inform you of the number of everyone that will be required and the prints where it will be necessary to establish hospitals. The amount expended for medicines is given in the first part of this report. 

The value of medicines issued I cannot give even approximately because I know nothing of the cost of the articles received or the extent to which they were worn before being issued to us. 

The Chief Med. Offices of the Bureau received