The relation of this Bureau to the War and Navy Departments is fundamental, for the reason that before any person can be accorded the benefits provided for under the act creating the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau, a record must be obtained from the War or Navy Department showing the military or naval record of the person seeking benefits either for compensation, insurance, vocational training, or medical care and treatment. Something over 900,000 requests have been made to date on the War and Navy Departments requesting a transcript of the military or naval record of the person while in the active service and there has been no diminution in the number of reports requested daily, in that our average number of requests each day is about 1,000. The matter of furnishing adequately the transcript of record of an ex-service man or woman, showing whether or not they received any medical treatment while in the active service is indeed a most difficult problem. It must be remembered cases are now arising where a given individual has been discharged from the military or naval service for a period of approximately three years, and that in all probability they did not receive medical care or treatment while in the service, but their health has become impaired subsequent to their discharge from the service. Quite true they might have had some slight attack of influenza while in the service or some other disability, but did not report for medical care and treatment. The most of these individuals believe that the War or the Navy Department should have had a record of such indisposition on their part, and that, in turn, it is up to the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau to secure such a record upon which to predicate the service origin of a given disability. Certainly not in the history of this government has the military and naval establishments been called upon to complete and compile the records of statistics and facts comparable to that resulting from the late war, and while there have been many mistakes made both on the part of the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau in requesting the information and on the part of the War and Navy Departments in submitting information, the great bulk of work has been performed in a most satisfactory manner, and great benefits have been accorded to those applying for the same under the beneficent laws passed by our Congress.