(b) Following up patients who leave the hospital A.W.O.L. or against advice, to see if they return or if leaving against advice that they are placed under proper supervision in the home community. Lastly there is the Information service which this Department may provide: (a) Communicating with family doctors and others to assist in securing affidavits necessary to substantiate government claims. (b) Information to families regarding patients’ personal and family affairs when advised to do so by the Commanding Officer. (c) Furnishing information to patients regarding government legislation. (d) Furnishing information regarding government insurance. The Social Service Department of the hospital irrespective of the source of supply of the personnel must be considered as an integral part of the hospital, subject to the inspections, rules and regulations of the hospital. The Red Cross at present provides the personnel for social service endeavors and I cannot conceive how any other agency could undertake to provide this service without providing the cobweb like organization spread out over the United States with thousands of Home Service sections as the Red Cross maintains, prepared to furnish information to the government officials. Until the government can provide a similar, and an adequate service, I know of no other civilian organization which enjoys the semi-official recognition imposed by the Congress and to which we in the government can turn for assistance, than the American Red Cross. The social service problem is one of helping the doctor, the man, the family, and to represent the community. We as medical men must remember that treatment, if successfully instituted, must embrace rehabilitation of the mind to a like degree that it does the body. A cure cannot be affected by the simple administration of drugs or a stroke of the scalpel. Something just as important, and in many instances more so, is the attention to the mental state of the patient. All the medicine, all the most skilled surgery will not cure unless careful attention is paid to the mental frame of mind of the patient. The whole social service effort is one to help bring back the patient to the world of reality and to maintain morale at a high level.