Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1864-01-13


the hospitals of --?
I'd. If so, what is his proper address,
Sd. What is the name of the Surgeon or Chap
lain of the hosptalf
4th If not in hospital at presant has he BE-
Gently been in hospital?
9Th Ifso, did he die 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 leaving7
More specific information as to 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 ut the Wash
ngt0n office.
The Office of the Directory will be open daily
from o'clock 4. 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 eonductiong 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,
Ivy States, counties, regiments, or otherwise, DO
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 wouH-
dcd at points where they are most wanted. 1t
operates with equal care and generosity at all
ponts-at New Orleans and at Washington, be-
fore Vicksburg and at Nashville-it sdistributions
being governed by comparison of the wants of
the patients in all eases To ascertain the rela-
tive character of these wants in q 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
per 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 lis 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,
u south Sixth street. Philadelphia, Penna.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
SANITARY COMMISSION, DFanCh supply OAhCc
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 It's operations.
Contributions TO its Treasury are solicited, and
10 foI
Treasurer, 60 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-