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Whither or not any person at the Colony has died for want of the proper medical treatment, I am unable to say, but at present it is absolutely necessary that prompt and immediate arrangements be made for the care of the sick and helpless dependents at the Colony.

The bedding and clothing of the persons living in the small pox building should be burned, and the house fumigated and then whitewashed. A change of clothing is required by almost everyone in the Colony altho the women and children are most in need of it as some of their clothing has evidently neither been off their backs, or washed for weeks

I found the rooms of the occupants generally clean, altho no general system of cleanliness seems to have ever been enforced. I have instructed the superintendent to compel the inmates to scrub and wash out their room at least twice per week to police their quarters and generally observe the greatest cleanliness about the Colony and their persons.

The superintendent might be furnished with Whitewash brushes, and lime to properly cleanse the Small pox quarters.

The dependents have been living so long on Salt Meats, without vegetables, that a change of diet is necessary to prevent the increase of diseases of a cutaneous, and scrofulas character.

I have ordered such changes in the ration as the stores at Greenville will admit off and that two servents of the meat ration be fresh beef. 

I would most respectfully recommend