Abstract
IN THE SUMMER Of 1943, the Procurement and Assignment Service of the War Manpower Commission sent a questionnaire to all hospitals registered by the American Medical Association. The questionnaire was designed to obtain information regarding the professional personnel, both medical and nursing, in hospitals in order to appraise the current needs of the hospitals and to secure an equitable distribution of interns, residents, and nurses. The 1,665 general and related special hospitals which returned adequate questionnaires comprised 40 per cent of the 4,200 such hospitals in the country and accounted for 60 per cent of the patient census. A higher per cent of the hospitals with schools and of the large hospitals both with and without schools returned questionnaires. Table I shows the per cent of hospitals and the per cent of patient census represented by the returned questionnaires for hospitals of different types, sizes, and geographic area. Information was obtained about the number
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