We have believed in doing much of this work that it was a matter of economy as well as expediency to furnish as complete medical examination as possible. These cases are compensable cases and the matter of records as to their physical condition is of especial importance. The veterans’ Bureau has felt the need of careful and complete examinations as well as records which are dependable. Pains have been taken, therefore, so far as possible, to take such examinations and keep such records of all cases. In some of our hospitals we have felt the need of establishing special services for special classes of cases, but have not extended this any further than was necessary. For example: we have in one of our general hospitals a special service on gastro-enterology. In another we may have a special service on surgery, as applied to tuberculous processes. Similar special services have been located in several places to meet special demands and such a policy will, of necessity, continue. Most important of all we have striven in every way to secure a qualified medical personnel, a matter of no small difficulty. The demand for competent medical men is greater than the supply. In the operation of such a large hospital system it is by no means easy to secure men skilled in special lines of endeavor. We have, therefore, felt the need many times of establishing some system of educating our medical staffs in various matters and, while funds have not permitted the extension of this system, we have availed ourselves of educational methods as far as possible. Schools of various kinds have been held for short periods of time and men have not infrequently been transferred temporarily to situations where they might acquire a special knowledge. We have also encouraged staff conferences and attempted to supply working libraries and medical magazines to each of our hospitals—all with the idea of stimulating among our entire medical personnel the desire to increase their professional efficiency as much as possible. 3. Finally, we have not overlooked the necessity for research. Our funds have been too limited to do a great deal in this line, but we have felt keenly the responsibility which rested upon us to do all that was possible. Such activities have been carried on in a very small way with the exception of one or two hospitals which might be really called research hospitals, notably such a hospital as the one at Waukesha, Wisconsin, where every effort is devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of a definite class of Neuro-psychiatric disorders. This hospital has been so organized as to permit the very highest type of modern diagnosis and therapy.”