Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-23

Cd. 1t 80, what is lis proper address
Sd. What is the name Of the Surgeon or ehsp-
lain OF the hospital?
4th. If not In hospital at prcesns, has be re-
Gently been in hospital?
5th. II so, did be die in hospital, and at v bat
date?
9th. Ifrecently discharged from hospital, was
ne discharged from service?
9TH. If not, what were his orders on leaving
More specific information as to the toudition
OF any patient in the District vi Columbia hos
pitfalls will be furnished within twenty-four hours
after request TO do 50 is received at the WASH
ingt0n Office
The Office of the Directory viii be open daily
from O. clock A. n. to o'clock y. H., and IN
urgent cases applicants ringing tie door bell
will be received at any hour Of the night.
Much Inconvenience in conductiong tie busl~
ness OF the Directory having arisen where visitors
have been given direct access to the record books
themselves, this practice will hereafter lie dis
continued nor can lists of wounded in hospitals,
~ States counties, regiments, or otherwise, he
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
If goods put in its charge for the sick and woun
led at points where they are most wanted. IL
operates with equal care and generosity at all
points--at New Orleans and ut Washington, be-
fore Vcksburg and at Nash vlc--its distributions
icing governed by comparison OF the wants oil
the patients in oil cases. To ascertain the rela-
/ ave character of these wants in trustworthy
manner, and to secure an equitable distribution
and honest use OF goods distributed, Le6ldes
the unpaid services of the members OF the Com
| mission, twenty physicians of high professional
and moral character and more than fifty lay
agents are employed under pecuniary securities
4 H., F1sr "a
Of these arrangements have thus far been about
per centum of the value OF the goods distributed.
| The Commission has not been able to obtain au~
hentic evidence Of losses, miscarriage, or mis-
appropriations, to the value OF one dollar III ten
thousand OF goods which have been once recetpea
at lis shipping depots, The following are the
| nlmes Of these depot8 to which auxiliary socle-
ties and all disposed to aid the sick and woundea,
without reference to States or localities, but
simply to their relative necessity for assistance,
| arc invited TO send their offerings:
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Once,
| % Summer street, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
10 Third Avenue, New York.
Sanitary Commission Branch Supply Office,
u south Sixth street, Philadelphia, Pcnna.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Ofiiees
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply 0ffce
Bank street, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
Chicago, Illinois.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Cfics,
Louisville, kentucky.
The Commission receives no pccunary 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 are solicited, and
nay be transmitted to GEORGE T. STRoEG Eq.,
| Treasurer, 90 Wall street. New York.
| The names of the following gentlemen, COM
nisoioners of the President OF the United Stats,
ire Pledged TO the public for the economy, integ-
| city, and efficiency with which whatever is en-
! Trusted To The Sanitary Commission Will be ad-