This brief summary of the relation of the National Military Home to disabled soldiers of the World War, leads one to the inevitable conclusion that the work of the Home in caring for these disabled soldiers is one that will increase from year to year and if the results of the Civil War can be relied upon, the peak in caring for these men will not be reached for twenty years, possibly thirty would be a more correct estimate of the time. In other words while it is probable that the hospital peak will be reached by 1923 or 1924, and then fall off, the domiciliary load is one that will grow from year to year and become more and more important as time goes by. In conclusion, speaking for the National Military Home, I wish to state that the relations existing between the former head of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, Col. R. G. Cholmeley-Jones, and the present Director of the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau, Col. C. R, Forbes, have in every way been most pleasant and cooperative and every request made by the Home for allotments and assistance in this work has been most generously and promptly met.” GENERAL SAWYER: “I have pleasure in introducing Dr. A. White, Secretary of the Board of Hospitalization, who will address you on the subject of “the Neuro-Psychiatric Case and How to Meet its Requirements”.” DR. WHITE: “The neuropsychiatry problem which the World War created and presented to the medical personnel of the various branches of the Government for solution, may be advantageously considered in three parts. The first part of the problem consisted of dealing with the conditions which developed in our armies during the war, more particularly those conditions which developed as a result of the stresses of actual service, particularly, of actual fighting. This large, and as you well know, very heterogenous group, in some mysterious way came to be labelled with the diagnosis of “shell shock”, a term which neuro-psychiatrically was most unfortunate, and which continues its vexatious existence. This group of cases, while a very heterogenous one, consisted largely and perhaps most characteristically, of a multiplicity of types of conversion hysteria, cut aside from any attempt to diagnose in detail the various forms that “shell shock” took, it is sufficient to say that this group as a whole was a group of acute psychoses developed under the severest of stresses of service conditions and that when these stresses were relieved, and particularly after the signing of the Armistice, these patients got well and to all intents and purposes this group as a whole ceased to exist and so is not today one of our problems.