Letterman Hospital                                        

Gettysburgh Pa. August 28^th 1863

 

Sir

            I have the honor to report, that I have made personal examination of the Seminary Hospital and find that at present there is no ground for the report "that there is much sickness" there "owing to the proximity of bodies imperfectly buried".

 

            There were a considerable number of confederate soldiers buried during the battle in one hole immediately to the rear of the building. These bodies have been exhumed and removed to the grave yard.

 

            There are several graves scattered in the grove back of the building but at distances too great to affect the patients. The bodies in these graves are well buried.

 

            At present there are at the Seminary Hospital ten sick men who are not wounded. of these, 1 has Typhoid fever, 3 Remittent fever, 2 Intermittent fever, 2 Catarrhal fever, 1 Dysentery & 1 [?]. Three of the wounded have Erysipelas.

 

            Several of the sick were sent to the Seminary when other hospitals were broken up. / Dr. Riley the present Surgeon in Charge conducts his hospital admirably and has greatly improved the police since he took the management.

                                                                                   

Respectfully

your obt. servt.

Henry Janes Surg U.S.V.

In charge of hospitals about

Gettysburgh.

 

Surg. Jos. R. Smith  

Act. Surg. Gen.   

 

[endorsement]

 

Letterman Hospital

Gettysburg Pa

Aug 28^th 1863

 

Surg H Janes U.S.V.

 

Relating to imperfectly buried

bodies &c.

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