[Account of activities of U.S. Sanitary Commission].

  • Snow, Edwin M. (Edwin Miller), 1820-1888.
Date:
[1861]
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Credit: [Account of activities of U.S. Sanitary Commission]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It may be proper to say, in order to prevent any possible misapprehension, that the services of members of the Commis- sion are unpaid, and that they receive nothing from its funds except the necessary expenses of travel incurred in the execu- tion of their duty. Its expenses cannot be diminished without seriously impair- ing its efficiency and usefulness. It ought to be at once en- abled largely to increase them. There is urgent necessity for more Inspectors, as new points on the rebel coast are occupied by our armies. Inspectors are already needed at ILitteras and at Port Eoyal. It is a startling tact, that when the expedition for Port Royal was on the eve of sailing, one of its surgeons was obliged to telegraph to Xew York for vaccine matter, no adequate pro- vision for the re-vaccination of the force having been made by the Medical Bureau. The funds now at the disposal of the Commission will enable it to go on for but a few weeks longer. Unless its Treasury is speedily replenished it must, very soon, dismiss its Inspectors, and notify the numerous associations throughout the country, with which it is affiliated, that its depots at Washington and elsewhere are closed. I am confident that the liberality and patriotism of the country will not permit this—especially at the present time, when the approach of winter exposes the army to new forms of disease, and when additional supplies are more urgently demanded than ever. The Commission is now organized as follows : TIexky W. Bellows, D. D., President, N. Y. Prof. A. D. Bache, L.L. D., Vice-Pres., Washington. Peed. Law Olmsted, Secretary, George W. Cullum, U. S. A.,