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on duty located as previously stated. Each of these receive a compensation of one hundred dollars ($100) per month - in all pr month - $900.00
No changes have been made in the number, or amount of compensation of Employees of the Medical Department during April.
The Employees are stationed as follows viz:

At the office of Surgeon in Chief Dist (Clerk) - 1.
At Howard Grove Hospital - 25
At Hampton Hospital - 5
Total number Apl 30th - 31
Total Compensation, per month, of employees no including medical offers 46087
Add Compensation Med. Officers (9 at $100 pr mo each) 900.00
Total compensation of Employes of all classes in Medical Department of Dist pr month $1360,87

I take pleasure in stating that the general Sanitary condition of the freedmen in the District remains very favorable, and much better then could have been expected. The care and aid of the Bureau has relieved a vast amount of suffering, and saved many lives. As during the winter, 80, also, thus far in the spring, no epidemic, infection or contagious diseases have appeared in the District, with the exception of some two or three cases of Small Pox at Richmond

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