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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.}
OFFICE OF SURGEON IN CHIEF, STATE OF ALABAMA.}
Montgomery, Ala May 5 1866.
General
I have the honor to submit the following upon of the past operations and present state of the Medical Department of the Bureau for the State of Alabama. 
Hospital for refugees and freedmen are in operation of Mobile, Montgomery, Selma, Demopolis, and Huntsville.
Surgeons are attending to indigent sick freed-people at this Coms at Talladega and on the Eastern shore of Mobile Bay.
All of the Hospitals are in good condition and well supplied with every thing necessary for the comfort of the patient.  The hospital at 'Dog River Colony' seven miles from Mobile, requires repairing; Col Washburn, the Supt. at Mobile has been instructed to give this matter his immediate attention. A hospital for cholera cases is almost being established near Mobile; the hospital will not be opened, however, until cases of this disease have occurred in Mobile.
Eleven (11) contract surgeons are at present on duty with Freedmen and refugees in this state; the pay of each is one hundred (100) dollars a month.