A brief summary of the Veterans’ Bureau cases treated in our hospitals may be of interest. Of the 4,300 cases treated during the year (October 1, 1920, to October 1, 1921) 180, or about 4% were suffering from either nervous or mental conditions; 2195 or about 51% with tuberculosis; 770, or about 18% with diseases or injuries of the osseous system; 75, or nearly 2% with heart or vascular diseases, and the remaining 25% was made up of all other conditions combined. In addition to this work, much assistance has been rendered in making physical examinations for that Bureau to determine the right to compensation or the necessity for hospitalization. Over 2,000 of these examinations were made during the year, many of which necessitated admission to hospital for varying periods to permit a thorough survey in order that correct diagnosis or physical condition might be established.” GENERAL SAWYER: “I am sure it must be gratifying to you to obtain a more intimate knowledge of the conduct of these affairs. I have pleasure in introducing to you Rear Admiral Edward R. Stitt, Surgeon General of the United States Navy, who will inform you as to ‘The Navy’s Part in the Hospitalization of the World War Veterans’.” ADMIRAL STITT: “The Medical Department of the Navy has been able to work with the Veterans’ Bureau along the following lines: _First_: the turning over to the Public Health Service for the care of the Veterans of the World War of the Naval hospitals at Philadelphia, Pa., Cape May, N.J., Gulfport, Miss., and New Orleans, La. and quite recently to the Veterans’ Bureau itself of the hospital at Fort Lyon, Colo. used for tuberculosis patients. These institutions were completely equipped when transferred, so that no additional expense was involved. The hospital for tuberculous patients at Fort Lyon has been operated by naval personnel since November first, but this institution will be taken over by the Public Health Service on March 1st. With the great reduction in naval personnel and the discharge from the service of large numbers of the tuberculous, the needs of the Navy did not seem to justify the maintenance by the Navy of so large a hospital, there being at present 735 beds with possibilities of expansion. Upon his return from a recent inspection the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service expressed to me his admiration for the institution. We should not have been able to turn over this hospital had it not been for the generous offer of the Surgeon General of the Army to take care of the naval tuberculous at the Fitzsimmons General Hospital at Denver. The bed capacity of these five hospitals totaled 2229.