OFFICE OF THE

UNITED STATES
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

SURGEON GENERAL WASHINGTON

February 21, 1938.
CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Lawrences:

Walter Treadway's tour of duty
here ends in June, and in keeping with
what is the present policy, I think it
unwise to make temporary extensions of
service for chiefs of divisions after
they have completed an eight-year tour.

Naturally I think of you as the
ablest person we have to take charge of
the Mental Hygiene Division. This is a
preliminary warning, therefore, that you
will be given orders to come to Washing-
ton for that purpose.

_ Warren Draper is to be in Lex-
ington on March 23-24 as a member of an
entrance board. I have asked him to talk
to you about a number of personnel prob-
lems in the Division when he sees you at
that time.

With best regards, I am

Very sincerely yours,

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Medical Director Lawrence Kolb,
U. S. Public Health Service Hospital,
Lexington, Kentucky.