Inasmuch as you Gentlemen are essentially interested in hospital administration, I should like to speak briefly on the question of hospital records, and what data the Bureau is required to have when it is called before Congress relative to Appropriations. As you know, Congress makes one appropriation to the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau for Medical and Hospitals Services. Sums from this appropriation are in turn allotted to the U.S. Public Health Service, the War and the Navy Departments, the Interior Department, and the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer’ Soldiers. When the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau is called before Congress for every appropriation it must show specifically how the money has been allotted, for what purposes it has been allotted, and the result accomplished. It has become imperative for the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau to have available comprehensive records concerning all hospitals in which there are being treated its beneficiaries. It is not sufficient that these records be only those concerning the admission and discharge of patients and the physical examination report in each instance, but equally fundamental data concerning the results of treatment, periodical turn-over of patients, the hospitals’ administration, and of equal importance, but from a different angle, the cost of operation with the resulting per diem cost per patient. A considerable part of the records on patients, their flow in and out of hospitals and similar data are available or can be made available, the value of these data so derived, of course, will be proportionate to the accuracy or thoroughness with which the records of admission and discharge are prepared and transmitted. The report of admission and discharge of patients and the report of physical examination are at present the only reports common to all Government Hospitals. The necessity for the prompt rendering of accurate admission and discharge reports and physical examination reports in all instances is apparent. Such reports are of very great importance to the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau, for upon them is determined the medical rating of the hospitalized beneficiaries and any delay or omission in the rendering of records of this character reflects upon the administration of the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau.