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Headquarters District of Alabama
Office Surgeon in Chief
Montgomery Ala  September 21st 1867

Bvt Major General Wager Swayne USA
Assistant Commission 
District of Alabama

General

I have the honor to submit the following Report of the Medical Department of the Bureau for the District of Alabama, for the period commencing November 1st 1866, and ending August 31st 1867

The number of Hospitals existing with the period above stated has been eight, (8) out-door stations one (1): the number of Hospitals now maintained is seven (7).  Since last Report a Hospital has been established at Garland, Butler County, Ala. at which place a large number of disabled and sick Freedmen have accumulated during the last year.  The Hospital at Talladega Ala. which was closed last year, has been reopened in consequence of the very destitute conditions of the Freedmen in that portion of the State.  The Hospital which was heretofore maintained in the city of Montgomery has been broken up, and the patients have been transformed to the "Home Colony" near said City, to which a large and well constructed Hospital has recently been added.  At Demopolis the Colony has been consolidated with the 

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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[stamp]] removed per Smithsonian instructions