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FREEDMEN'S AFFAIRS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE.   23

HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES

The number of patients remaining in the refugee's and 
freedmen's hospital in this city on the 30th day of
April, 1868, was ----------------------------------------- 199
Number admitted during the month of May ------------------  29
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Total ---------------------------------------------------- 228

Number discharged cured ------------------- 29
Number discharged died -------------------- 14
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[[total]] ------------------------------------------------  43
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Number remaining in hospital May 31 ---------------------- 185

The "lying in" and "infant" wards have been abolished. There are few lying-in patients in another ward.

MINORS
The number of minors apprenticed by the bureau during the month was one male.

OUTRAGES
The number of outrages reported during the month was 16; number of murders, 2; number shot, wounded, 1; number otherwise maltreated, 13; total 16.  

The following outrages are specially reported by the chief sub-assistant commissioners:
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel R.E. Johnston, of the Lexington district, reports:  "H.C. Howard, sub-assistant commission at Mt. Sterling, reports two (2) cases of maltreatment in his sub-district which have been referred to the United States Commissioner.

Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J.S. Catlin, of the Lousiville district, reports:  "One murder has been reported at this office which occurred at or near the corner of Market and 7th streets in this city.  A very worthy young man (colored) was stabbed in broad daylight by a young man (white) who as yet cannot be found.  I have taken all the steps possible to find the murderer, and in compliance with verbal orders from General Burbank have applied to the United States marshal with the view of co-operating with him and his officers.  Four other trifling cases of maltreatment have been reported here, but not of sufficient importance or severity to warrant a special mention." 

Brevet Brigadier General H.G. Thomas, of the Danville ditsrict, reports:  "Scipio Bowman, a gray-headed old man, came to Lancaster in January, 1868, to take care of sick relative; that on or about the middle of May, the old man was run off from his little plantation by two men, who came and shot into his dwelling, and thus succeeded in running off this poor, homeless old man, and appropriating all the scanty earnings of his life to themselves.  Bowman, like many others, now lives in Danville, where the bureau and troops are."  Four other cases of maltreatment occured in various parts of my district during the month, the victims being whipped and some of them driven off.

Brevent Captain A. Benson Brown, of the Bowling Green district, reports: "Dudley Coombs (colored) was shot and killed on the 24th of May, near Bowling Green, by Andrew Atchison, (white.)  A coroner's inquest was held on the 25th over the body of Coombs, and a verdict rendered as above stated; that