Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1864-05-04


81 " nat 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?
oth II so, did be die in hospital and at hat
date?
9th lfrecently discharged from hospital. WA
he discharged from service?
7th. If not what were his orders on leaving
more speclhc information as to the condition
OF any patient in the District of Columbia hos
pltals VIII be furnished within twenty-four houra
after request to do so is received at the Wash.
ington Office
The Office of the Directory will be open daily
from 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
nave 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, lie
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. 10
| operates with equal care and generosity at all
| polnts--at New Orleans and at Washington, be-
tore Flcksburg and at yile--its distributions
being governed by comparison Of the wants OF
| the patients in all cases. To ascertain the rea-
| tive character of these wants in u trustworthy
manner, and to secure 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
If Al.
3per centum of the value OF the goods distributed.
| The Commission has not been able to obtain au~
| thentc evidence of losses, miscarriage, or mis-
appropriations to the value of one dollar in ten
thousand, of goods which have been once received
| at It's 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 Olive,
22 Summer street, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
10 Third Avenue, New York
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Oftve
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 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
may be transmitted to GEORGE T. STRONG, 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 will be add
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