4. The Chief Coordinator of the Board of Hospitalization shall preside over the Board and be responsible for its efficiency and for developing its activities along practical lines. After a full discussion of any question by the Board, the decision of the Chief Coordinator will be final as to any action to be taken or any policy to be pursued, but any member may appeal from the decision to his own immediate superior.
By direction of the President:
CHARLES G. DAWES,
Director of the
Bureau of the Budget.”
From this you will readily see that the extent of the work under the administration of this Board is very far-reaching and is an innovation in Federal Hospitalization activities, for beside being interested in behalf of reasonable economies in administration, the Federal Board of Hospitalization is particularly and especially interested in carrying out the highest ideals of modern hospitalization for the far advanced Veteran.
The President and his administrative family have in mind, as the basic principle of all hospital service, the very best that can be supplied, measured by real end-results.
The Board of Hospitalization represents all of the Departments of the Government directing and controlling the Federal Hospitals of the United States. Each of the Chiefs of these Departments will speak of his particular relation to the subject of Hospitalization as it refers to the World War Veteran, as the program proceeds.
In order that each of you may understand the magnitude of the entire subject of Hospitalization of the World War Veteran, I wish to present the following facts;
Today there are being hospitalized under Government control, in Federal Hospitals, 22,440 World War Veterans, who are distributed among the various Departments as follows: