{"value"=>"<p>Reports arranged by office locations are those sent by regional Hospital Directory offices to John Bowne, Superintendent of the Hospital Directory, which are typically statistical summaries of the number of hospitals reporting to that office, the number of names on their books, and the number of inquiries received and answered. The files for the Washington office include reports for their own regional activities, as well as drafts and clean copies of narrative and statistical reports concerning the operations of the entire Hospital Directory organization, sent by Bowne to executive officers of the USSC.</p> <p>Collected reports consist of copies of above reports, with some original documents, which were bound together during the USSC's post-war arrangement of the records.</p> <p>Also present are papers dated 1866 relating to the Final Report of the Hospital Directory, compiled by John Bowne. The papers contain his holograph notes as well as holograph reminiscences submitted by Caroline A. Howard, New York Hospital Directory Clerk at Woman's Central Association of Relief from 1864-1865, and John W. Wilson, Superintendent of the Philadelphia Hospital Directory from 1863-1865. A Final Report was apparently submitted to USSC officers, but a copy has not been located in the Hospital Directory records.</p>"}