New-York daily tribune., 1865-12-21
. sMustered ou, of service.

Mustered out OF service
Instructions were given to Snrgeone Chief 10 relieve
Che Medical Department of the Army thc care Of sick
Refugees and Freedmen, and aid the Assistant Commis
sioners in establishing hospitals for such patients as could
not be otherwise properly accommodated and employ the
requisite number Of physicians and attendants TO supply
the wants OF the sick.
II discovered that want Of Congressional appro
pration and limited amount Of funds at the disposal Of
the Commissioner for the employment OF ply and
attendants for the sick would embarrass the aimnsira
.ion Of the Medical Department.
The Surgeon having authorized Circular No g.
current SERIES Medical Purveyors To issue to the Bureau
medical hospital supplies accordance with the stand
ard Supply Table, had prepared and the Comrnis
soner adopted the Of Refugees and freedmen sur
Chief Of Districts made approving officers for
such requisltions They directed 70 make 10 the
Chief Medical officer the Bureau Washington consoida
ted sick reports Of their districts weekly and promptly
transmit the monthly reports together with copy Of all
other reports made contracts made and annued crca
lars and orders issued and requ,stions approved
Medical ofcers having charge Of medical and hospital
supplies required 10 make quarterly, and when re-
eved thererom property returns according 20 form to
tie Chief Medical Ofhcer Of the Bureau
Previous to the organization Of the Bureau, early a.
July 25h 1864 was by order Of Col R. oAbbott s A.
my other duties Surgeon in charge Of Ricord Hospa
and member OF the Army Medical Board, assigned 10 tn
supervision Of Freedmens Affairs the District Of Colum
bia and complete relief system, botn in hospital an
quarters work without loss Of time, being tn
means Of furnishing six thousand nine hundred AM
and twenty nine 929 patients, nedica attendance an
medicines and subsistence given 70 the absoIute
destitute.
The first systematic efforts for the relief Of freedmen
rendered destitute by the rebellion made under ih
auspices OF Col John Eaton Jr, 63d L. ). c. T., nov
Breyet Breadier General and Assistant Commissioner
this Bureau for the District OF Columbia by the establish
ent OF Contraband Camp in West Tennessee, October
1862 which proved to be the nucleus Of the most extensive
system in the country including its operations the great
Valley Of the Mississippi under the same officer, whose
humane exerons gave assistance 10 seventeen hous
and persons Elsewhere no systematic aid was afforded
these people.
Although the has not yet reached the remote sec
ton the Of South already forty hospitals vthaccomno
ds,ons for four thousand ye hundred 0Oaenis are in
operation and facilities are afforded for the tre. nent OF
five thousand O)Osck twenty four asyums and colonies
established by the Bureau in attendance on the SICK,
eighty three physicians are employed under contract and
one hundred eighty male and hundred and seventy
seven female attendants. OF twelve regmenta medical
ocers detailed Bureau by Department Commanders
there remain but three. In this class might be me- TONED
surge6 G. O. McCord Of Col EatO3s regiment who has
made an honorable record IN ireedmens aiafs m the
Mississippi valley.