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Completed on November 8, 1872, the hospital was a wood-frame building with two 12-bed wards. To save money, the army finished the inside walls with paper board instead of plaster. Earth commodes adjoined each ward for patients too ill to go outside. Sick reports included typhoid, dysentery, rheumatism, syphilis, and alcoholism, and the post surgeon and hospital steward also treated gunshot wounds, cuts, and broken bones.
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