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Office Sub Asst Commisssioner
Bureau  Refugees, Freedmen and A.L.
District of Mobile
Mobile, Ala, Sept 23, 1867

Capt Kinsman AAAG +c

Head Qrs Dist, Ala. Bureau R.F. and A.L.

Sir; 
 
I have the honor to request the instruction of the Assistant Commisssioner in reference to colored persons, destitutes, who may be sick with Yellow Fever which, it is highly probable, will cause much suffering among them.  On application from one case received today it was not deemed advisable to remove the patient to the Dog River Hospital.
There is no doubt but that the question will assume magnitude as the fever is reported on the increas.
The distance of the hospital, our inadequate transportation, and