Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1864-01-27

the hospitals OF -
I'd. II so, what is his proper address?
3D. What is the name of the Surgeon or Chap
lain of the hospital?
4th If not in hospital at presant has he re-
Gently been in hospital?
5th If So did he die in hospital, and at " hat
date2
9Th If recently discharged from hospital, was
he discharged from service?
7th If not what were his orders on leaving
More specific information as to the. condition
of any patient in the District of Columbia hos
pitfalls viii be furnished within twenty-four hours
after a request to do SO is received at the WASH
ington office.
The office of the Directory will be open daily
from o'clock A. NJ. to o. clock P. NJ, and in
urgent cases applicants ringing the door bell
will be received at any hour of the night.
Much Inconvenience in conductiong the bust"
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~
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 woun.
ded at points where they are most wanted. IL
operates with equal care and generosity at all
points-at New Orleans and at Washington be-
fore Vicksburg and at vile-its distributions
being governed by comparison of the wants OF
the patients in all cases. To ascertain the reia-
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 of the Com"
mission, twenty physicians of high professional
and moral character and more than fifty lay
agents are employed, under pecuniary securities
for responsible and efficient service. The cost
of these arrangements have thus far been about
3per centum of the value of the goods distributed.
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 received
at its shipping depots The following are the
names of these depots, to which auxiliary socic"
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 Once,
% Summer street, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
10 Third Avenue, New York.
Sanitary Commission Branch Supply Once,
81 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 pecnniary 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
may be transmitted to GEORGE T. 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"
rity, and efficiency with which whatever is en-