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charge. The only additional notice of the Vicksburg and Davis Bend Hospitals, necessary in this report, is that they are well provided with hospital supplies presided over by efficient and competent medical officers, and kept in good condition. The average number treated daily, in the former, is about 200 and in the latter, about 190. Since the attendants have been paid they have performed their duties faithfully, the pay enabling us to procure those who are competent for the work. 

When I visited Washington, in the month of July, I found the surgeon in charge sick, the buildings occupied as hospital poorly adapted to that use and the administration of affairs  generally not very creditable. The contract of the sick surgeon was cancelled, a good building procured and a competent medical officer supplied who treated the sick in hospital and camp, the average daily number of which is about 70. The supplies are sufficient in quantity and tolerably good in quality, and the hospital may now be reported in good condition. In August I visited the interior of