of, will result in undue delay in discharge. This doubtless would be true if each hospital were required to assemble data called for and make the other necessary provisions and forward the reports to the District office to await return and receive transportation before a patient could be discharged. In the issuance of General Order No. 26–A and the supplementary instructions it was contemplated in the Bureau here in Washington that a representative of the District Manager would be necessary in each hospital, at least, in those of considerable size, and some distance away from the District office, in order that direct liaison between the District Manager and the hospital in question might be maintained, it being the business of this representative to see that matters of after-treatment, convalescent care, feasibility for training, and necessary adjustments of compensation matters will be properly taken care of prior to the time that it is actually necessary to discharge the patient. This representative will keep contact with the appropriate District office and handle transportation for returning a claimant home or to point of hospitalization. Anticipation on the part of the medical officers actually taking care of claimants in hospitals, of the needs of each patient in respect to these necessary details would enable the District Manager’s representative located in the hospital to carry out the proper adjustments of these important matters and the patient made ready for discharge at the proper time without delay. To make effective the services of the Government hospitals in the functions which they are carrying out, a thorough understanding of the problems involved is very necessary and a sympathetic understanding of each other’s problems, as between the District Managers and Hospitals together with a spirit of co-operation and fair play is essential to the desired results, if not an absolute prerequisite to the success of the undertaking.