Directory Of The Hospitals

The Sanitauy Commission' have establiihed au office of infonuation ia regard to patieuts in the Hospitals of the District ot Columbia, and oi Frederick City, Maryland. 15)' reforcnue to books, wbich are correoted dailj', an answcr can, undcr ordinary circurustuuces, be given by rcturu mail to the following questious: Ist. ís [giving name and regiment] at present iu the hospitals of the District or of Fruderick City ? 2d. If so, what is his proper address? 8d. What is the iiüine of the Surgeou or Chaplaiu of the Ho.spitjl? ■Ith. If not io hospital at present, has he reeently been in hospital 'i 5th. If so, did ho die in hospital, aud at what date ? öth. If reeently discharged from hospital, was ho discharged from service ? 7th. If not, v, hatwere his orders on loaving ? The Commission is prepared also to furuish moro f pecilio infornaatin ;ig to the ooudition of any patiënt in the Distriot hospitals, withiu tweuty four bours after a reijuest to do so, from an officer of any oí its correspor.ding societics. The office of the Directory will be open daily from 8 o'clock a. m. to 8 o'olock p. m., and aecessible in urgeut oases at aiiy hour of the niglit. The nuniber of patients in these hos pitáis is about 25,000. If found to bo practicable, the duty here undertaken locally by the Commission will bo exteuded to inelude all geniral hospitals in the country. F1ÍKD. LAW OLJIoTED, General Secrelary. Adams House, 244 F stkekt, Washington, D. 0., Nov. 19, 1862.