This does not mean that as long as special treatment along any line is needed that each patient will not have such expert examinations, care and treatment as his condition calls for. Quite the contrary, the most careful and competent examinations should be directed by hospital units composed of the most competent staff of men including surgical; medical; ear, nose and throat; X-ray., etc., at such intervals as the condition of the patient calls for. It will be by this system alone that we are to keep a check on the progress toward recovery of each individual patient and prevent an undue accumulation of a domiciliary group. By proper cooperation of such a group with the rehabilitation section, many men may be selected as suitable persons for rehabilitation in the vocational schools. The importance of this we all realize as there is a certain percentage of patients who will be quite content with their state as long as they are receiving complete maintenance and a liberal compensation of from $80 to $150 per month and no cares and no responsibilities to assume in life. That is we should be constantly on the alert to prevent making permanent residents or charges of any man who can be restored to an earning status in life. Contrast, if you please, with the conditions in our hospitals the patient in private hospital, who is paying from $10 to $50 per day for private nursing, hospital accommodations, etc., and a correspondingly high rate for special professional services, and who in addition to this is losing heavily because of his absence from his personal business. In the latter case there is a much greater incentive for getting well, a greater incentive for requesting that special nurses and other expenses be cut off at the earliest moment it is found that they are no longer needed and for the additional request that they be discharged from the hospital as early as possible after the maximum benefits from hospitalization have been received. In the one case, the private patient is paying freely a large sum of money to get well. In the other case, the patients of our Veterans’ hospitals in many cases are paid liberally for being sick.