Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-07-07


lain of the hospital?
4th If not in hospital at presant, has he re-
Gently been in hospital?
5th Tfso, did be die in hospital, and al y hat
date?
9th. If recently discharged from hospital, was
he discharged from service?
Tth. If not, what were his orders on leaving
More specific information as 10 the condition
of any patient in the District of Columbia hos
pitfalls will be furnished within twenty-four hours
after request to do so is received at the Wash
ingt0n office.
The Office of the Directory will be open daily
from o'clock 4. M. 10 clock F.. NJ, and in
urgent cases applicants ringing the door bell
will be received at any hour of the night
Much inconvenience in conduetiong the busi-
ness of the Directory having arisen where visitors
have been given direct access TO the record books
themselves, this 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-
thorty 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 woun-
ded at points where they are most wanted. Ii
operates with equal care and generosity at nil
points-at New Orleans and at " ashington, be-
fore Vicksburg and at Nashville-itsd distributions
being governed by comparison OF the wants or
the patients in all cases. To ascertain the rela-
tive character of these wants in trustworthy
manner, and to secure an equitable distribution
and honest use of goods distributed, besides
the unpaid services of the members or the CON-
mission, twenty physicians of high professional
and moral character and more than nifty lay
agents are employed, under peeuniary securities
for responsible and efficient service. The cost
of these arrangements have thus far been about
a4l-. l. s1,1e MA~sA Exw1
The Commission has not been able to obtain au~
thentic evidence of losses, miscarriage or mis-
appropriations, to the value of one dollar IN ten
thousand of goods which have been once receiee6
at 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 Office
81 south Sixth street. Philadelphia, Penna.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office
| Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply OHces
Bank street, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
| Chicago, Illinois.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
Louisville, Kentucky.
The Commission receives no pecuniary aid
| whatever from the Government, and is wholly
dependant on the voluntary contributions Of the
public for the means of sustaining its operations
| Contributions 10 its Treasury are solicited, and
may be transmitted to GEORGE T. STRoSG, Esq,
Treasurer, 6s Wall street, New York.
The names of the following gentlemen, COM
| missioners of the President of the United States,
are pledged to the public for the economy, integ-
rity. and efficiency with which whatever is en-
trusted to the Sanitary Commission win be ad-
ministered:
| H. W. Bellows, D. D. George T. Strong. ESD.
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