At the port of embarkation Army officers established a "Christmas Box Hospital" for the repair of Christmas boxes received in the mails for shipment overseas to American soldiers in France. This photograph shows a pile of the damaged boxes awaiting inspection and repair. It was necessary to box anew about 11,000 christmas packages and many other packages were less seriously damaged in transit to the embarkation port. A total of 200,000 Christmas packages went to France from this country. Committee on Public Information, 1918.