surgeons' reports— new YORK 1 WENTY-SEVENTII DISTRICT. 279 



gvggcstwns in reference therefor— Ai^ ffood ns can be found. 1 have no sn-gestious to make, belicv- 



in"- the law to be as near peit'ect as iio.ssible. 



"Z. H. BLAKE, 



ISnn/eon Hoard of EnroUment Ticentiijifth JUstriet of New York.- 



Oanandaigua, N. Y., June 1, ISO"). 



NEW YOKK— TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.' 



Exirdcts from rejiort of Dll. H. S. GnUBBUCK. 



* * * ()„ the loth day of August, 18G3, I received my appointment as assistant sur 

 geon in the othce of the provost-mai'shal of the twenty-seventh congiessional district of New York, 

 in which capacity I served the Governuu-nt of the United States until September la, 1803, when 

 the surgeon of the board of enrollment was relieved from dnt\ , and I was appointed surgeon of 



said board. . . 



I have been associated with three different provost-marshals and three commissioners, and 

 have had no assistant surgeon except during about three months in the year ISCI— the mouths of 

 August, September, and October— while large numbers of volunteers were being examined, as also 

 of enrolled men presenting themselves for examination and exemption, I was assisted by Dr. Ira 

 ¥. Hart, of Elmira, who rendered valuable service. 



The following includes all the men th;it have been examined in this ofdce : 



Substitutes, volunteers, and drafted men - - - 1". 'j ' <• 



Examined and stricken from eurollmeut for permanent physical disability ... 3, TOG 

 Examined but not rejected for permanent physical disability '524 



Total number of men examined l^' 000 



The above figures are correct, as near as we can give them from the records of the ofQce. 

 The following is the general geographical description of this district: It is located aloug the 

 southern boundary of the State, and includes three counties, viz, Chemung, Steuben, and Allegany. 

 Chemung, the most easteily county, is a small one. It is divided into ten towns. It has attained 

 some notoriety during the progress of this war from the fact that the city of Elmira, one of the 

 three general "rendezvous for recruits, drafted men, aud substitutes, is located within its limits. It 

 is also the headquarters of the assistant provost-marshal-general of the western division of the 

 State of New York as well as that of the provost-marshal of this district. A prison-camp for 

 rebel prisoners is established here, within which ten thousand prisoners have been confined and 

 provided lor. In ISGO the population of Elmira was about ten thousand, aud it has increased 

 rapidly since. The Erie Railway passes through this city. It is also the terminus of two railroads, 

 viz, the Elmira and Williamsport aud the Elmira and Canandaigua Railroads. The Chemung 

 Canal connects, via Seneca Lake, with the Erie Canal, which, opening into the Hudson River at 

 Albany furnishes an unbroken water-communication between this city and New York. Water- 

 comnnmication is also had with Harrisburgh and Philadelphia, Pa., by means of the Junction and 

 West Branch Canals. There are a number of villages in the county, pleasantly located. The total 

 population of this county is about thirty thousand. The Chemung River passes through the south- 

 ern part of the county. Along this river is a large and extensive plat of beautiful, flat farming-land, 

 as fertile, perhaps, as any in the State. The hills back from the river are in many places high aud 

 abrupt; but generally the ascent is gradual, the country presenting an undulating surface well 

 adapted to cultivation. 



The other counties in this district, Steuben aud Allegany, are laroer than Chemung; but the 

 surface of the country presents the same general appearance. The hills are perhaps more abrupt 

 and higher, and consequently better adapted to grazing than to raising grain. 



In Chemung County the diseases most prevalent are of a typhus or typhoid character; the surface 

 being more level, and in some places marshy, emitting to some extent a malarial miasm. Intermit - 



I Nil icpiirt viis rpreiTcd from the t wi-iity-sixlli distriel. 



