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No. 14.

OFFICE OF ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER,
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Montgomery, Ala., September, 10th, 1865.

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No. 2. }

INSTRUCTIONS TO MEDICAL OFFICERS ON DUTY WITH REFUGEES AND FREEDMEN.

I. Medical officers will report by letter to the Surgeon in chief on the last day of each month their stations or the duties to which they are assigned.

II. Requisitions for Medical and Hospital supplies are to be made in triplicate, and must be forwarded to the Surgeon in chief for approval.  In preparing them.  Medical officers will conform with standard supply table for Refugees and Freedmen, both in the articles and quantities, avoiding fractions in quantities.  Requisitions for outfits of Medical and Hospital supplies will be made for three months, and in the form of a letter, stating the number of men or beds to be supplied.  Requisitions to replenish Medical and Hospital supplies will always be made in detail, according to the forms furnished, and for those articles only which are really deficient in quantity. These requisitions will be made quarterly.

III. Medical Officers having charge of Medical and Hospital supplies will make, to the Surgeon General, U.S.A., through the Chief Medical Officer of the Bureau at Washington, D.C., semi-annually on the 30th of June and on the 31st of December, and whenever relieved therefrom, returns in duplicate.

IV.  Medical Officers in charge of Hospitals or Colonies will forward to the Surgeon in chief, on the last day of each week, a report of the number of patients treated, discharged, and who have died during the week. Blank forms for this report will be furnished on application.

V.  Duplicate monthly reports of sick and wounded Refugees and Freedmen (separate for each) must be sent to the Surgeon in chief, within five days after the expiration of the month.  Blank forms will be furnished from this office.

VI. Medical Officers must keep constantly on hand a supply of fresh vaccino virus, and must vaccinate and re vaccinate all persons under their charge, who have not been recently successfully vaccinated.  All persons joining Colonies or entering Hospitals must be vaccinated at once.  A weekly report of the number of persons vaccinated, or re-vaccinated, must be sent to the Surgeon in chief on each Saturday.

VII. Medical Officers in charge of Colonies will make frequent inspections of the Quarters, and report their condition, with such recommendations for their improvement as they may think necessary, forwarding at the same time a copy of the report to the Surgeon in chief.

WAGER SWAYNE,
Brigadier General and Assistant Commissioner.

OFFICIAL:

Ass't Adj't Gen.