The Hospital corps quarterly Volume 5-6; supplement to the United States naval medical bulletin by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 ...commission, which had directed its efforts toward both the personnel of the Army and Navy, divided, and the Navy Department Commission on Training Camp Activities took up its work under the Bureau of Navigation. A naval officer was assigned the task of forming the so-called Sixth or Morale Division of that bureau. He surrounded himself with additional naval officers, and on 1 January, 1920, the Navy Department took over all activities of civilian welfare organizations within naval jurisdiction. The work of the Morale Division is carried on by a special appropriation of Congress. I quote from the appropriation act for the fiscal year ending 30 June. 1922: " Recreation for Enlisted For the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy under such regulations as may be prescribed." The Bureau of Navigation allots from the fund appropriated to ships and stations of the Navy a major portion of the appropriation, reserving but a small amount for itself to take care of such unforeseen activities as may arise and also to provide for ships and stations newly commissioned. Each ship afloat is granted a quarterly allotment of a certain sum according to the class and size of the vessel itself. The money so allotted serves for purchasing material for the wel fare of the enlisted personnel. 6. Libraries. 7. Guidebooks. 8. Supply and disbursing. 0. Social hygiene. The improvement of morale depends, first, on the use of all military means and, secondly, on amusement and recreation. The military means for improving and maintaining a high state of morale have been set forth in the Bureau of Navigation Manual, and are as "(«) Lectures, letters, and memoranda t...