The subjects of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy constitute what has been designated as the Section of Physical Reconstruction in hospitals. Early after the United States entered the War the Surgeon General of the Army realized that it was necessary to utilize all the agencies that would aid in the recovery of men disabled in the War. He, therefore, established a Section in the Hospital Division of Physical Reconstruction, to include Occupational Therapy, curative work-shop instruction, and Physiotherapy which includes Electrotherapy, Hydrotherapy, Mechanotherapy, Thermotherapy, massage, and directed exercise. Col. Frank Billings, of Chicago, was made Chief of the Section, and the Work was developed until there were 48 hospitals with more or less perfect equipment in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, 2000 Occupational Aides and curative work-shop instructors, and 1200 Physiotherapy Aides and Medical Officers. There were as many as 34,000 men engaged in some form of Occupational Therapy in one month, and 20,000 different men treated by Physiotherapy. Upon the retirement of Col. Billings I was made Chief of the Section, and the work continued to develop until 69 per cent. of all hospital patients were doing some form of work in Occupational Therapy or Prevocational Training. There were many hospitals that maintained an average of 5000 Physiotherapy treatments a week for a number of months. As the men were discharged from Army Hospitals the burden of the Public Health Hospitals became greater, and many of the individuals who had been active in the Army work became associated with the Public Health and established as a part of their hospital program the Section of Physical Reconstruction, to include Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy. This work has developed throughout the past year and a half. It was not thought within the province of the Public Health to develop Prevocational Training. The speaker, having resigned from the Army, accepted a commission in the Public Health Service and was detailed to the Federal Board for Vocational Education as Medical Officer in Vocational Training. For a year and a half in this capacity he assisted in developing 181 centers, most of which were in connection with hospitals, in which the Prevocational Training was the major part of the work. Under this management there were about 800 teachers employed, and about 14,00 men engaged in some form of work. Unfortunately, the necessity of calling this Prevocational Training, in order to have it come under the Federal Board law, gave a wrong impression of the work as done in hospitals. When the Veterans’ Bureau came into existence, it took over the activities of the Federal Board and the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and correlated these with the Public Health Service, the Veterans’ Bureau having, under the law, power to do anything that was necessary in the rehabilitation of the ex-service men.