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the state, to exclude from the support of the Bureau, all persons who are able to be self supporting, and to make those who cannot fully support themselves, do so to such a degree as they can effect it, and especially to provide for self support of all children who have reached an age when they can learn some trade, or do something to relieve the Bureau of the charge of their support.

As far as I have been able to learn, and I have made a special effort to make myself acquainted with the facts, there is little suffering among Freedmen in this state, for want of medical attention or otherwise, The Medical Officers are working laboriously, efficiently, and effectively, in their fields of duty. And everything in the Medical Department is economized to all limits consistent with the claims of humanity.

Unfortunately some time since the small Pox was brought to the state, and quite widely distributed, by mustered out Soldiers who came from the South. Provisions a long time in advance of it for vaccinations; and for precautions, to be promptly resorted to whenever a case should occur - careful attention to all sanitary requirements and increased vigor in vaccinations, since the disease has existed, have kept it in check, in many places prevented any extension, and when, from exposure, it could not be prevented from some degree of expression; has

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