Hospital │Beds as │ Patients in Hospital │ Total │ Vacant │ signed │ │ Cases │ Beds │ to │ │ Under │ B.V.B. │ B.V.B. │ │treatment.│ │ (1) │ │ │ ───────────────┼────────┼────────┬────────┬────────┼──────────┼──────── │ │ T. B. │ Neu-P. │ G.M. & │ │ │ │ (2) │ (3 │ S. │ │ │ │ │ │ (4) │ │ ───────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────── Army & Navy │ 150│ 0│ 2│ 85│ 87│ 72 ───────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────── Beaumont │ 200│ 43│ 5│ 18│ 66│ 134 ───────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────── Fitzsimmons │ 600│ 787│ 0│ 74│ 861│ 338 ───────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────── Letterman │ 250│ 7│ 7│ 58│ 72│ 237 ───────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────── Ft. Sam Houston│ 300│ 139│ 11│ 63│ 213│ 87 ───────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────── Walter Reed │ 750│ 26│ 24│ 334│ 384│ 366 ───────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────── TOTAL │ 2250│ 1002│ 49│ 632│ 1683│ 1234 ───────────────┴────────┴────────┴────────┴────────┴──────────┴──────── Within a few days we expect to open up several hundred beds at Fitzsimmons General Hospital for veterans suffering from tuberculosis. This last large increase has been made possible by funds transferred by the Veterans’ Bureau to the War Department for the specific purpose of enlarging this hospital. When the construction and alteration made possible by these funds has been completed (and the completion is expected almost daily) 700 additional beds for the tuberculosis will have been provided in permanent structures for a little over $1000 per bed. In addition to the buildings turned over to the Public Health, which have already been enumerated, the Medical Department has turned over to that Service supplies approximating a value of $12,336,000.00. It has been a source of gratification to the Medical Department, and I am sure to the War Department, that the Army was in a position to assist in rendering aid to the American soldier disabled in the World War. The total number of all cases treated in our general hospitals during the last year was approximately 30,000; of these 10,000 were local cases and 20,000 were general cases, and of the latter 15,700 were our own and 4300 pertained to the Veterans’ Bureau.