Probably there are three Executive Departments of the Government with which the Bureau has more contact than with the other Executive Departments—that of the Treasury Department, the War Department, and the Navy Department. Inasmuch as the U. S. Public Health Service is a part of the Treasury Department our contact with this Department of the government is immediate and vital, and is of more immediate importance than our contact with the other Executive Departments. As is appreciated, no hospitals are operated directly by the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau, and all hospitals with the exception of contract hospitals are operated by the other independent establishments of the government, the Public Health Service of course having the lion’s share in providing facilities, and prior to the Act of August 9, 1921 creating the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau, the U. S. Public Health Service had charge of the various fourteen district offices where was stationed at each district office a Supervisor. The Secretary of the Treasury’s order of April 19, 1921 transferred the functions of the District Supervisor’s Office to the then Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and the Act of August 9, 1921 transferred by law the activities of these offices to the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau, but left unhampered the jurisdiction and authority of the U. S. Public Health Service concerning matters of hospitalization. Without the work of the facilities afforded by the U. S. Public Health Service it would indeed be impossible for the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau to function and discharge its obligations relative to the hospitalization, medical care, and treatment of disabled ex-service men and women. Co-ordination of their work has led to the fullest cooperation on the part of every agency, to the end that the disabled ex-service man is receiving the best treatment which a grateful government can provide. You have, of course, before you all the data and information relative to the extent of the work carried on by the U. S. Public Health Service as it relates to the beneficiaries of the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau.