After a final conference on a man after preliminary observation, if we feel that he has come to the point where he should be given a chance, we give that man a thirty-day parole. If he has a guardian, his guardian must report every ten days. If he has not a guardian he is placed in communication with the Veterans’ Bureau officer, or a Red Cross worker in the District, in which he is paroled. In other words, during the first thirty days I get three reports as to his condition. If after thirty days he is still doing well, I grant an extension of thirty days. During the second thirty days he reports in twice. If he is still doing well at the end of sixty days, the parole is extended to ninety. I believe in the majority of our cases that if a man makes good for ninety days, it is reasonable to suppose that he is going to make sufficient adjustment to stay outside of the institution. If, as I said, his report at the end of ninety days is a good one, he is then discharged from the Institution, with the privilege, of course, of returning. Now of all the men I have sent out under that scheme this year, I have had less than eight per cent of returns, and I consider that in the first year a fairly good average. I want to commend that scheme to every man who has charge of an n.p. hospital and after this conference adjourns, I would like to correspond with you on that subject. I would like to compare notes because I believe it is worthy of attention. There is one other thing brought up in a previous meeting and that was the question of our constitutional psychopath, and drug addict and the building of special hospitals for these men. I personally am not in favor of such a scheme and I will tell you why. I have a considerable number of these men. I believe that every complete n.p. hospital should have a department with definite numbers assigned from the staff who are particularly clever in handling this line of case. I think that they should be handled in your regular n.p. hospital as a separate unit. Now there is just one thing in connection with that statement I wish to emphasize. There are a certain number of these men who do eventually make an adjustment. For the sake of that percentage alone we should not place the stigma upon them of being sent to practically a penal institution, and that is what it means if you set aside a place and brand it as a place for those of criminal tendencies and drug addicts. We tried that in New York and you all know from the papers what it resulted in.