Morning Reports of Sick and Wounded
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content: Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 2: Records of the Freedmen's Hospital
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1483, Subseries 2.5
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content: Archival materials
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content: The morning reports of sick and wounded, August 1865–February 1869, are arranged chronologically. These reports were prepared daily on tabular forms whose format varied but generally included two sections. The first section is an abstract indicating the number of patients remaining on the previous report; the number of patients who had been admitted, discharged, transferred or who had deserted or died; the number of patients remaining still in the hospital; and the number of occupied and unoccupied patient and attendant beds. The report's second section provides narrative information on individual patients who had entered or left the hospital since the previous report. This information generally includes the patient's name, hospital number, sex, age, nature of the change in status (i.e., admitted, discharged, etc.), and, except for newly admitted patients, the disease.