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may employ private physicians to attend them and their authorized servants. But this authority does not extend to the employment of private physicians for their families, nor to the hiring of nurses in any case. It is however, in the province of the Commissioner to modify these regulations, and I would recommend, under circumstances so unusual and so distressing as at present exist in many of the stations of the South, where yellow fever is extremely and fearfully scourging the inhabitants, that every consideration and relief of the kind referred to by
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