Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-08

TIC A0spftalS OF ----~-~-s
III. II 50, what is his proper address?
ID. What is the name of the Surgeon or Chap
lain of the hospital?
4th. II not in hospital ii prosaat, has be re-
Gently been in h0spital2
9TH. Rso, did he die iii hospital, and at uhat
date?
9th. II recently discharged from hospital, was
he discharged from service?
7th. Ii not, what were his orders on leaving
More specific information as 10 the condition
of any patient in the District of Columbia hos
pitfalls viii be furnished within twenty hours
after a request to do so is received at the Wash
ington Office
The Office Of tie Directory will he open daily
from o'clock 4. a. TO o'clock y. ~, aud in
urgent cases applicants ringing the door bell
will be received at any hour OF the night.
" Much Inconvenience in eonduetiong the bust
ness Of the Directory having arisen where visitors
have been given direct access to the record books
themselves tllis practice will hereafter be dis
continued; nor can lists OF wounded in hospitals,
by States, counties, regiments, or otherwise, be
hereafter furnished from these records.
The Sanitary Commission. under special au.
thority from the President of the United States
maintains an extensive system of agencies for
securing the safe conveyance to and distribution
of goods put in its charge for the sick and woua-
ded at points where they are most wanted. 1t
operates with equal care and generosity at all
points-at New Orleans ahd al Washington, be-
fore Vicksburg and ut Nash vie--its distributions
icing governed by comparison Of the wants OF
the patients in all cases. To ascertain The rcla-
tive character of these wants IN trustworthy
manner and 10 secure an equitable distribution
and honest use of goods distributed, besides
The unpaid services Of the membcrs Of the Com.
mission, twenty physicians of high professional
and moral character and more than ifty lay
agents are employed, under pccunlary securities
for responsible and efficient service. The cost
of these arrangements have thus iar BEEN about
per centum OF the value ofthe goods distributed.
The Commission has not been able to obtain au4
theutic evidence of losses, miscarriage, or mis-"
appropriations, to the value OF one dollar in ten
thousand, of goods which have been once rcceteed
1T its shipping depots. The following are the
names of these depots, to which auxiliary socie-
ties and all disposed to aid the sick and wounded
without reference to States or localities, but
simply to their relative necessity for assistance
are invited to send their offerings:
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office
% Summer street Boston, Massachusetts,
Sanitary Commission Branch Supply Office
10 Third Avenue, New York.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply ONCE,
27 south Sixth street, Philadelphia, Penna-
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
Cincinnati. Olao.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
Bank street, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sanitary Commission, Rranch Supply Office,
Chicago, lllillcis.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
Louisville Kentucky.
The Commission receives no pecunary aid
whatever from the Government, and is wholly
dependant on the voluntary contributions OF the
public for the means Of sustaining its operations.
Contributions to its Treasury arc solicited, and
NAV he transmitted to GEORGE II. STRONG, Esq,
Treasurer, GO Wall street, New York.
The names OF the following gentlemen, com
missioners of the President of the United States.
arc pledged to the public for the economy, integ-
ritv. and efficiency with which whatever il Cyl