Kitchen. - Off the mess-room and is well furnished with cooking apparatus and utensils. Is clean and in good order.

Mess-room. - Well furnished with tables and utensils and in good order.

Diet. - Nearly as possible U. S. army hospital diet, and well prepared.

Office and dispensary. - In very good order. Books very well kept; in this respect surpassing any of the hospitals coming under my inspection, excepting possibly that at Camp Douglas. Dispensary well furnished and in excellent order. Under charge of a U. S. hospital steward and competent clerks.

Store-rooms. - Medical, linen, and commissary. All in very good order.

Bath-room. - None yet provided; will occupy a portion of the laundry when erected. All necessary apparatus on hand.

Sinks. - Excavations, two in number, well screened, whitewashed, and disinfected. Portable sick receptacles should be used, as recommended for prison.

Dead-house. - Commodious, well appointed, and in good order. (Built by prisoners from refuse lumber.)

Knapsack room. - Built as above; separate from wards and in good order.

Summary of sick report for month ending February 29, 1864.

Remaining last report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Taken sick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

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Aggregate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Sent to variola hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Returned to quarters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Died. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

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264

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Remaining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Average daily sick:

In hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

In quarters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Men strength of prisoners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,149

Mortality. - Percentage of deaths to mean strength, . 0216; percentage of deaths to aggregate sick, . 1183.

Summary of sick report for month ending March 31, 1864.

Remaining last report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Taken sick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

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Aggregate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Returned to quarters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Died. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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258

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Remaining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Average daily sick:

In hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

In quarters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Mean strength of prisoners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,579

Mortality. - Percentage of deaths to mean strength, . 0183; percentage of deaths to aggregate sick, . 0896. Present number of sick in hospital,

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