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Sickness

5.  I found considerable sickness among this class of poor refugees, resulting from exposure, low diet &c, with great want of physicians. This want indeed is felt by all classes. I learn that your Medical Director is taking efficient measures for its relief.

Efforts to help themselves.

6.  The Freedmen are forming charitable societies among themselves for the relief of suffering. There is one, of colored women, at Beaufort S.C. and one of the same kind, of great efficiency, in Charleston. At Augusta they are doing much by their contributions for the sick and for hospitals. At Savannah the hospital under the charge of a Colored Surgeon is being aided very effectively in nursing, and in articles for the diet kitchen, by the colored people of the city. They have an association for this purpose, also a medical class of intelligent youth is to be admitted to the hospital to receive instruction from its Surgeon, and to aid in its services.)

In conclusion - The work of your Bureau in all the region I visited seems based upon the right foundation, and is prosecuted with success.

There is opposition from the returning rebels, and