In addition to the complete change of two branch Homes, numerous and extensive improvements and alterations were made at a majority of the other Homes so that the fullest cooperation might be given to the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in its great work, and today outside of the Home at Hampton, Virginia, and the one at Danville, Illinois, which have been practically set aside for the older class of veterans, adequate facilities have been prepared for the hospitalisation of such soldiers of the World War as may be assigned to them for hospitalization. But in this connection especial attention must be called to one very peculiar and unique feature of the service furnished by the National Military Home, and that is the fact that under the law, the Home must care for the victims of peace as well as the victims of war and furthermore, that the gates of any branch Home are open to any disabled soldier of the World War and that for admission, it is not necessary that the disabled soldier be sent there by the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau or any other organization. If he presents himself with his honorable discharge and the medical examination shows disability, under the law the Home must take care of him as long as such disability exists, this whether the disability be one of war or one of peace. To give a concrete example, if a World War soldier presents himself at any branch Home with a leg or arm amputated, under the law, the Home must take care of him whether he lost the limb in the Argonne or in a saw mill, and this feature is one that I think should be carefully considered because it leads up to the question spoken of above, of domiciliary care. Now a man with a leg gone is naturally crippled in the battle of life and cannot compete on equal terms in almost all professions or trades, but still when the operation is completed and the wound healed, he does not require hospital treatment but comes under the domiciliary class, and I cannot help but feel that there are probably many hundred of cases along this line of disability which if transferred from the active hospitals of other branches of the service to the National Military Home for domiciliary care, will lighten the load very materially of hospitals where active curative work is being done, and increase the number of beds available for active hospital work, and at the same time give the domiciliary case the best of care and attention.