When the District Manager hospitalizes patients in your hospital, he must, necessarily, have certain reports, as he is still responsible to the Director for these patients. The reports of physical examination, on the proper Bureau forms are obviously essential. Important, too, is the prompt and accurate report of admission to and discharge from hospital of patients of this Bureau. Mention has been made of the multiplicity of reports asked for and the Bureau and its District Offices are making definite effort to relieve you of this burden. With the extensive decentralization of the work of the Bureau to the District Offices and the closer cooperation of those offices with your hospitals the request for reports made upon you in the past will be reduced. I feel confident that this result is already evident if comparison is made with conditions of a year ago. During the recent conference in Washington of District Managers, District Medical Officers and Vocational Officers, the question of reduction of reports and forms was urged resulting in a careful revision and some elimination which should indirectly affect you. The most direct method of improving this condition will be placing a representative of the District Manager in your hospital. He will be able to act with the authority of the District Manager on many matters now causing difficulty and delay. I should like to take this opportunity to call your attention to certain phases of treatment which the Veterans’ Bureau and the District Manager expect you to give to patients, namely, to disease or disability developing for which the patient was not admitted to hospital and to conditions which are not apparently of service origin. In this connection, I would remind you that the Director is charged with providing treatment to beneficiaries taking Vocational Training for disease or disability not due to misconduct, although not related to any service disability. This is embodied in Regulation #12 recently issued and from which I quote:— The relation between the District Manager and the Commanding Officer of Service hospitals should be one of mutual cooperation. The success of the hospitalization program of the Bureau depends on this. The intelligent and sympathetic support of every Commanding Officer is essential and the Central Office firmly believes that every District Manager will give you his unqualified support in your work in hospitalization of patients of the Veterans’ Bureau. The one thing that I would impress on you above all others and which will do more than all the instructions that could be issued, is get together with the District Manager.” COLONEL H. M. EVANS, of the U.S. Veterans’ Bureau: discussed the subject “Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy in Hospitals” as follows: Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen: