tJireniar,  No.   1 .

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                           Washington, D. C, February 19, 18G4.
  1.—Separate  reports of sick  and Avounded rebel  prisoners of Avar,
treated in l\ S. General or Post Hospitals, will be made monthly to this
office.
  TI.—Whenever  Avhitc and colored troops are  treated in the same
hospital (either General  or Post) separate reports of sick and Avounded
will he made, in order that the sickness and mortality rates of each race
can be correctly ascertained.
  [II.— Monthly Sick Reports from regiments or detachments of colored
troops Avill present on the first page of the report the number of  sick of
enlisted men only: the names, rank, and diseases of sick officers of lhe*<3
regiments will be placed under the head of Remarks.
                                    JOS. K. BARNES.
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