Viewing page 90 of 233

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

District, the colored people, and the superintendent of the colored schools. Captain Massy seems to be an active, intelligent and capable officer, and has not been at all direlect [[derelict]] in the discharge of his duties, but has not at all times exhibited the patience and forbearance necessary to produce harmony of action. I conversed frankly with him in regards to this, and have no doubt he will hereafter give satisfaction.

During the past winter considerable suffering was experienced at the hospitals at Hampton and Yorktown, on account of the want of adequate warming apparatus: requisition for stoves was made in November, but they were not received untill the latter part of January. I could not learn the cause of this delay.

No general medical inspection of the hospitals at Hampton and Yorktown has been made for a year, nor has the surgeon in chief of the state visited this district, as General Armstrong informs me, while it has been in his charge. It is one of the most important localities over which the Bureau exercises its jurisdiction, as regards the number and condition of the colored people. The medical officers on duty there, as far as I am able to judge, appear to be capable and efficient.

The schools at Norfolk and Yorktown are in a flourishing condition; but those at Hampton do not compare favorably with

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-10 16:38:06 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-11 09:51:15