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exact number reported - To show the application of this rule and its correctness, take for example the Return for the Freedmans' Hospital for the month of December 1866. 

[[9 columned table]]
| Date | Men | Women | Total | Days | Rations | Gain Men | Gain Women | Gain Children | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 

| December 1st 1866. | 9 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 110 |   |   |   | 
| December 11. 1866. | 10 | 6 | 16 | 10 | 160 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 
| December 21. 1866. | 12 | 8 | 20 | 11 | 220 | 2 | 2 |   | 

| Total |   |   |   | 31. | 490 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 

To ascertain the aggregate the total gain added to the number first reported viz: 11+11=22, or to 9 men add 3 men, and to 2 women add 6 women & 2 children and it makes 22 aggregate - It would show on the monthly report as follows

[[13 columned table]]
|   | Men | Women | Children | Total | Aggregate | Total Men | Total Women | Total Children | Aggregate | Received | Total | Rations | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 

|   | 12 | 8 | 2 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 490 | 
| By error in Report} | 14 | 6 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 

and so with the other Hospitals by taking the number gained and adding to the number commenced with, we arrive 
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