Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-11-03


Sd. What is the name of the Surgeon or Chap,
lain Of the hospjal2
4th. If not in hospital at pres2nt, has he re,
Gently been in hospital?
9Th. ifso, did he DIG in hospital, and at what
date?
9th, If recently discharged from hospital, was
he discharged from service?
It'll II not what were his orders ON leaving
More specific information az 10 the condition
o. any patient in the District of Columbia hos
pitfalls win be furnished within twenty-four hours
after Request to do so is received at the WASH
ington Office
Frcs office Of the nirectory will be open daily
from . clock \. VI. 10 o clock p. M., and in
urgent cases applicants ringing the door bell
will be received at any hour of the night.
Much inconvenience in condnctong the bust
ness ofthc 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-
thority from the President of the United States
m1intains an extensive system of agencies for
securing the safe conveyance 10 and distribution
of goods put in Its charge for the sick and woun-
dcd at points where thov are most wanted. 1t
operates with equal care and generosity at all
points-at New Orleans and mt " Washington, be-
fore Nicksburg andat Nashv distributions
being governed by a comparison OF the wants OF
the patients III all eases. To ascertain the rela-
tive character of these wants in II trustworthy
manner and TO secure an equitable distribution
and honest pse sof goods distributed, besides
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 pccuniary securities
for responsible and efficient SerVice, The cost
of these arrangements have thus fur been about
3per centum of the value of the goods distributed.
The Commission has not been able TO obtain ALL
thentic evidence of losses, miscarriage, or mis-
appropriations, to the value OF one dollar IN ten
thousand, of goods which have been once receiUcd
at its shipping depots The following are the
names OF these dcpots, 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 ONCE,
10 Third Avenue, New York.
Sanitary Commission Branch Supply Office,
u south Sixth street, Philadelphia, Penna
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
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 to its Treasury are solicited, and
NAV be transmitted to GEORGE 7. STRoNG, Esq,
Treasurer. SO 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"
! ritv. and efficiency with which whatever is en-
trusted to the Sanitary Commission will be adj
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| II w Bellows. d. D. George T. Strong Esq.