"And so, as 1 stand before you today, It is father of the spirit of such an institution that 1 am thinking. and would like to give the staff of th great hospital and its friends a mes Sage of encouragement to keep on with the good work, undismayed and unfaltering, in the' knowledge that you, who help to maintain it, are Woing so in the spirit and tradition that inspired "your fathers, "We cannot all serve in the front me of the fighting forces committed to the task of winning back to the world peace and the blessings of peace, but each of ur concerned In this work may nevertheless feel 1h he is sharing the task of those forees, which is to win back to broken men, women and children a new opportu ty for life, and a new emphasis on the sanctity of human personality and human freedom.
"In reading the report for 1940, find nothing sensational or startling, bhut much evidence of steadfast carry. ing on and a great deal of real achievement. All the various activity. ies of the hospital have been main. tained. There has been no retreat anywhere along the whole front. Progress has been made and the ground gained has been consolidated. The volume of work done is less than in 1939, but that is not necessarily unfortunate. On the contrary, as the Report rightly points out, reduction in volume has meant (or should have meant) an increase in thoroughness and care in the service given to individual patients, the maintenance of as high a standard as conditions permit.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.