Just what the future will hold for the Public Health Service in this work, it is now impossible to say. It appears, however, that the Public Health Service for sometime to come will be one of the designated agencies for furnishing hospital care and treatment to beneficiaries of the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau. This responsibility of supplying hospital facilities, with all that is implied, will be as adequately met as possible. The Public Health Service at the present time is operating a number of hospitals which, from many standpoints, are not suitable to the purpose to which they have been put. To attempt to operate hospitals in unsuitable buildings, unsuitably located, subjects the Public Health Service to unmerited criticism, but, since these facilities are needed for a time, it will be necessary to continue such places in operation. It is not possible, under such circumstances, to render the highest type of service, but every effort will be made to render the best service possible. With the construction which is now going on, under appropriations which have been made available by Congress, it is anticipated that, in the more or less near future, it may be possible for the Public Health Service to close some of its unsuitable plants and open others of a far more satisfactory character. This will relieve the present situation a great deal and will do much to obviate the criticism which has been made against the National Government because it has not supplied suitable hospital facilities for the care of men who have given so much to their country. In conclusion, it seems appropriate to say that the Public Health Service, in all of this work, has realized fully the necessity for the most complete and cordial cooperation with other governmental agencies engaged in it. It has been a firm policy of the Public Health Service to stimulate an attitude of cooperation on the part of all of its employees. It is a matter of peculiar satisfaction at this time to say that the Public Health Service feels that, in the present Director of the Veterans’ Bureau, it is receiving from him a most cordial support in this policy of cooperation and the relationships which exist between these two Bureaus daily grow better, as they must if the work is to be properly accomplished. It is also to be noted in this connection that the recent creation of the Federal Board of Hospitalization has added to the administrative machinery a piece of co-operating mechanism, which will, undoubtedly, do much to stabilize and coordinate, as well as standardize, many necessary things, which, up to this time, have been carried on more or less independently. A governing body of this character, which can lay down broad policies, influencing all of the official agencies engaged in this work, must of necessity be in a position to subserve a very useful purpose. The sympathetic consideration and support of this body should have a fine moral effect.”