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Consolidated Report of Freedmen treated and died during the period commencing November 1st 1866, and ending August 31st 1867 together with the number remaining at the end of each month.

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| Month | Treated Man | Treated Woman | Treated Male Children | Treated Female Children | Treated Total | Died Man | Died Woman | Died Male Children | Died Female Children | Died Total | Remaining Man | Remaining Woman | Remaining Male Children | Remaining Female Children | Remaining Total | Percentage of deaths |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| November 1866 | 203 | 225 | 96 | 88 | 612 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 24 | 118 | 164 | 66 | 54 | 412 | .039 |
| December 1866 | 182 | 214 | 80 | 73 | 549 | 12 | 4 | 3 |   | 19 | 113 | 176 | 70 | 62 | 421 | .034 |
| January 1867 | 163 | 242 | 84 | 77 | 566 | 8 | 8 | 1 |   | 17 | 123 | 165 | 63 | 56 | 407 | .03 |
| February 1867 | 169 | 239 | 84 | 76 | 568 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 114 | 154 | 66 | 48 | 382 | .029 |
| March 1867 | 158 | 223 | 80 | 59 | 520 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 112 | 152 | 62 | 33 | 359 | .015 |
| April 1867 | 168 | 201 | 76 | 46 | 491 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 137 | 171 | 67 | 42 | 417 | .028 |
| May 1867 | 188 | 251 | 81 | 58 | 578 | 7 | 2 | 1 |   | 10 | 136 | 205 | 61 | 42 | 444 | .017 |
| June 1867 | 203 | 279 | 77 | 71 | 630 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 154 | 218 | 63 | 55 | 490 | .020 |
| July 1867 | 225 | 297 | 80 | 82 | 684 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 157 | 229 | 65 | 54 | 505 | .023 |
| August 1867 | 284 | 352 | 121 | 103 | 860 | 12 | 5 | 5 |   | 22 | 166 | 235 | 81 | 51 | 533 | .025 |
| Total | 1943 | 2523 | 859 | 733 | 6058 | 73 | 54 | 24 | 11 | 162 | 166 | 235 | 81 | 51 | 533 | .026 |

It will be observed that the occupation almost exclusively freedmen, and that the percentage of deaths has been unusually low.

Eleven Contract Surgeons have been employed during the year past, of whom four have been discharged, and seven are still in service.  These gentlemen have discharged their respective duties with fidelity and skill.

Meanwhile, efforts have been made which resulted in transferring from the charge of the Government most of those aged or infirm persons who remained after employment had been found for the early inmates of the "Colonies".  And as the State tax for this year is now giving to the several Counties means for the first time for such a purpose, and in pursuance of your orders, arrangements have been made which are expected to result during the current month in the transfer of all these institutions, each to the charge of the County in which it is now situated, but with sufficient guarantee for its maintenance.

But little difficulty has been experienced during the year past in extending our school system in accordance with our means, and a high degree of success has attended 


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prosecution.  The method heretofore adopted of searching out localities where schools might well be opened, opening the schools ourselves but encouraging the freedmen to take part in their support, was maintained until the year closed with vacation, with excellent results.  The school year opened with sixty eight teachers and thirty one hundred pupils;  one hundred and fifty teachers were instructing ninety eight hundred pupils at its close;  and the advancement in scollarship was not less than the increase in numbers.  No differrence in natural capacity or interest is observed between these pupils and those of any schools known to the writer in this country.

The year has witnessed no diminution but apparently a widening of the remarkable interest taken by the freedmen in the new facilities for education.  Great efforts were made to support their children while in school, and among themselves primers are found in every situation, laid away for use during the intervals of labor.  The decks of the steamboats, wagons upon the roads, hack stands, and almost every other place open to observation, present illustrations of this feeling.

As well to make this interest permanent, as for the immediate benefit derived, aid has been rendered by the Bureau in the erection of school houses according to its means and where ever efforts made among the freedmen have resulted in procuring the necessary ground without cost to the Government.  In this way, permanent structures have been secured at Montgomery, Greenville, Evergreen, Selma, Demopolis, Gainesville, Wetumpka, West Point, Mount Meigs, Union Springs, Florence, Lafayette, Huntsville and Decatur.

Preparation is making to erect larger buildings for schools of a higher order at Mobile, Montgomery and Selma;  and others are in contemplation.  The title has in every case been vested in a board of suitable trustees, with proper guaranty against a failure of the trust.

At points less central, and on numerous plantations, many rude school rooms have been put up, and these the Bureau has assisted in a measure with school furniture.  Applications for help in all these ways have steadily increased throughout the year, the demand being greater than could be supplied.  Two small buildings have been destroyed by incendiarism, and some individual lawlessness has been encountered, but the severe hostility that was at first so general has now disappeared.  The Mobile School Board, a corporation of long standing and high character, have expressed to the Bureau their