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who floated into the city during the war or have been sent into it since, who are completely worn out and helpless.

4th Every few days some poor wretch is sent here and is found lying on the street or in some out house, in a condition of extreme suffering, and for whom there is no public provision. Many of the persons thus thereon upon charity have no claim upon the local authorities, for they come from other counties and if they have claim the city has no provision for them except a coffin and a grave.

The county has a wretched poor house to which we have been able to send a few of the poor of the county. It is a miserable establishment and no poor person will go there that can avoid it. It is a poor house in every sense of the word.

A number of these claimants upon public charity lost their limbs or their health in the service of the Government in the capacity of servants, but were not regularly mustered and can therefore obtain no pensions 

I would respectfully bring to the notice of the Asst Comr. that when our hospital was closed last year it was done because of assurances given by the city authorities that an Infirmary or hospital would be established by