A T the annual meeting of the Committee on Administrative Practice of the American Public Health Association, held October 9, 1943, the Subcommittee on Medical Care was directed to draft a set of principles expressing the desirable content of a comprehensive program of medical care, the methods of its administration, and the part which public health agencies should take in its operation. The report eventually, by action of the Association on October 4, 1944, became an official statement of the A.P.H.A.1The study was considered but one sector of a comprehensive national health program, namely, medical care. The report states, under recommendation VI "Training and Distribution of Service,